24 Jan 2023
Plane review – Gerard Butler thriller gets a little bumpy but mostly soars
Wider in scope than its amusingly direct title suggests, Jean-Francois Richet's muscular actioner is thinly written but exciting
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
22 Jan 2023
Alice, Darling review – resolutely realistic but slightly underpowered domestic abuse drama
Anna Kendrick is excellent in a dependable but limited character study of a woman pushed to the edge by her cruel boyfriend
20 Jan 2023
Radio Silence review – short but resonant doc spotlights a remarkable Mexican journalist
Juliana Fanjul's reverent film about censored radio host Carmen Aristegui is intermittently inspiring, if a little underpowered
12 Jan 2023
Chronicles of That Time review – migrant crisis doc is too opaque to make an impact
Drifting between the academic and the abstract, Maria Iorio and Raphaël Cuomo's film winds up feeling more like a museum exhibit
12 Jan 2023
The Last Stage review – a remarkably brave act of remembrance
This 1948 Holocaust drama - directed by an Auschwitz survivor - is a vital work of cinema history whose influence is staggering
03 Jan 2023
Till review – harrowing yet careful look at a heinous crime and an incredible mother
Chinonye Chukwu's latest film is a precise, exacting study of America's all-too recent history, centred on an incredible lead turn
03 Jan 2023
A Man Called Otto review – excruciatingly twee remake of a Swedish crowdpleaser
Tom Hanks stars in a dull and drab dramedy that makes a very early but very strong play for being one of 2023's worst films
31 Dec 2022
I Wanna Dance with Somebody review – another dully generic biopic from the writer of Bohemian Rhapsody
An artist like Whitney Houston deserves a tribute with far more energy and personality than this overextended and shallow montage
30 Dec 2022
Now Something is Slowly Changing review – intermittently fascinating Dutch self-help documentary
Presented without narration, this study of off-piste therapies and corporate team-building walks the line between amusing and sterile
23 Dec 2022
The Pale Blue Eye review – a flat literary origin story for Edgar Allen Poe
An enticingly snowy and spooky premise is wasted on an overlong, unsatisfying, and poorly acted murder-mystery from Scott Cooper
23 Dec 2022
Republic of Silence review – disorienting three-hour doc plays more like news footage B-Roll
Despite some fascinating elements and an ambitious scope, a complete aversion to accessibility and formal daring makes it a slog
19 Dec 2022
Babylon review – colossally entertaining tribute to the movies is a three-hour party
From its grand opening to its audacious ending, Damien Chazelle's latest drowns its flaws in a tidal wave of laughs, feeling and craft