Reviews

Review: Ali & Ava …dissects Clio Barnard’s latest piece of social-realism for its multi-faceted inspirations and lauds its warm message. Ali & Ava is a social-realist-musical-melodrama, flush with spectacle and …

Review: Snowpiercer (TV Series) With the release of the show’s third season, Stanley Murphy-Johns makes the case for going back and watching the flawed yet artful show in its entirety. …

Review: Licorice Pizza Clémence Smith finds an irresistible, golden nostalgia in Paul Thomas Anderson’s new coming-of-age drama that seems more an exercise in experience than storytelling. I first heard of …

Review: Euphoria S2, so far Pollyanna Roberts gives a recap of where each of Euphoria‘s central ensemble is thus far and weighs in on the moral crises in which they …

Franz Kranz’s surprising debut, a stripped-back, chamber piece examination of forgiveness, offers a timely lesson for a divided world.

Combining his usual extravagance with a novel, tangential plot structure, Almodóvar’s latest drama, Parallel Mothers, promises the world.

Review: Nightmare Alley Regardless of its superficial divergences from del Toro’s typical formula, Matthew Bowden finds the director’s gothic stylings in full swing in his recent neo-noirish effort. Considering Guillermo …

Review: Belfast Ella Buckley interrogates the romanticism and nostalgia permeating Kenneth Branagh’s coming of age tale set in Troubles-stricken Northern Ireland. For a young child growing up in Northern Ireland …

Review: Around the World in 80 Days Piers Mucklejohn finds a lot to love in the exhilarating modern adaptation of Jules Verne’s classic novel and discusses the cultural criticism surrounding …

Climate Change: Can the Big Screen really help? Considering Netflix’s recent satire, Don’t Look Up, Floris De Bruin interrogates the role of satire and entertainment in the fight for climate …