Review: Cyrano Despite finding something to love in its extravagance and flamboyancy, Clémence Smith argues that Joe Wright’s adaptation misses the point of its source material. Cyrano seems like a promising film at first. It is a musical adaptation of the 1897 French play Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand and features a star-studded cast; needless to say, […]
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Review: Darkest Hour
With Darkest Hour, director Joe Wright thrillingly illustrates the political side of Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk by placing a momentous piece of history into the hands of Gary Oldman. Wright – who depicted the enormity of the Dunkirk evacuation in Atonement (2007) – delivers a remarkable cinematic history lesson that balances the difficulties of Churchill’s first […]