21 Jan 2022
Comets review – short but fatally dull Georgian romance
Tamar Shavgulidze’s unpredictable tale of a past relationship barely scrapes feature length, but will test your patience anyway
Articles by Jack Blackwell
Favourite films: Apocalypse Now, The Social Network, No Country For Old Men
Favourite actors: Florence Pugh, Timothée Chalamet, Willem Dafoe
Favourite filmmakers: Paul Thomas Anderson, Quentin Tarantino, Christopher Nolan
19 Jan 2022
Nightmare Alley review – Guillermo del Toro’s devilishly thrilling neo-noir
This monstrously grim psychodrama brings a bizarre world to visceral life, fronted by an astonishing turn from Bradley Cooper
17 Jan 2022
45 Days: The Fight for a Nation – scattered but important look at a shamefully ignored war
This patchy but emotive doc explores the recent Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and the traumas it inflicted on the Armenian people
16 Jan 2022
Ascension review – surreal study of China’s embrace of capitalist excess
Jessica Kingdon's mesmeric fever dream of a documentary sets the benchmark for just how dispiriting a 2022 film can be
13 Jan 2022
Cow review – moo-ving doc goes inside the mind of a beast of burden
Andrea Arnold's latest protagonist may be a dairy cow, but she still affords her the dignity and rich inner life typical of her filmography
07 Jan 2022
Munich: The Edge of War review – solid spy thriller slowed down by the weight of history
This Robert Harris adaptation will be sure to please World War II buffs, though an excess of plot means it fails to consistently thrill
07 Jan 2022
Ailey review – earnest doc celebrates one of the great modern dancers
Targeted expressly at avid fans of interpretive dance, Jamila Wignot's film is often moving but sometimes a little alienating
29 Dec 2021
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain review – charming but scattershot portrait of an oddball artist
A biopic almost as eccentric as its cat-loving subject, this Victorian drama eschews convention in favour of something far wackier
28 Dec 2021
The King’s Man review – pulpy prequel suffers from near-fatal tonal whiplash
Matthew Vaughn takes the franchise back to World War I, but gets stuck in an awkward no man's land between silliness and sincerity
15 Dec 2021
Swan Song review – Mahershala Ali elevates a grounded sci-fi debut
Benjamin Cleary's vision of the future might look familiar, but its gently probing plot avoids cliche and asks powerful questions
09 Dec 2021
Don’t Look Up review – Adam McKay’s apocalypse yarn is a mesmerising mess
Packing three films into one, this end of the world dramedy is simultaneously more and less than the sum of its many parts
09 Dec 2021
Being the Ricardos review – a slapdash betrayal of one of the funniest stars of the ’50s
Nicole Kidman is fatally miscast in Aaron Sorkin's hokey Lucille Ball biopic that seems utterly disinterested in its own characters