Swapping New York for big-sky Portugal where Isabelle Huppert’s film star gathers her clan, Ira Sachs weaves a tapestry of relationships and experiences that aims for something timeless, writes Michael Leader.
Cartoonish ultraviolence and even cartoons break out in the Japanese director’s 103rd movie, a blood-soaked tale of a madcap scheme gone dangerously awry, writes Michael Leader.
Jim Jarmusch’s maximal stock company overruns the American heartland for an end-times zombie genre burlesque that finds nowhere to go, says Michael Leader.
Joel and Ethan Coen explore how the west was spun in an eclectic portmanteau that covers the American cinema’s foundational genre territory with gimlet-eyed glee, says Michael Leader.
Alden Ehrenreich plays the younger incarnation of Harrison Ford’s cosmic tearaway Han Solo in Ron Howard’s rote but proficient space rollick that’s another brick in the Lucasfilm cinematic wall, writes Michael Leader.
Andrew Garfield’s overgrown fanboy cum sleuth loses his girl and then himself in David Robert Mitchell’s compromised but cult-ready follow-up to It Follows, says Michael Leader.
Spanish auteur Jaime Rosales softens his experimental edges a notch with a cerebral and darkly witty melodrama in which a truth-seeking artist meets her malicious nemesis, writes Michael Leader.
The Berlin Film Festival jury’s top prize choice was a distinct(ive) surprise, but 2018 included a breadth of finds to write home about, to judge by this straw poll of our correspondents.
A late-1950s Norfolk sea town sets its face against the winds of change ushered in by Emily Mortimer and Bill Nighy’s book lovers in Isabel Coixet’s too-snug adaptation of Penelope Fitzgerald’s novel, finds Michael Leader.