23 Jul 2023
Oppenheimer review – relentlessly gripping and gargantuan account about the weight of genius
Christopher Nolan's epic take on the "Father of the Atomic Bomb" is a compulsive culmination of the director's career so far
Articles by Tom Barnard
Favourite films: Jaws, Children of Men, Lost in Translation
Favourite actors: Harrison Ford, Nicole Kidman, Robert Pattinson
Favourite filmmakers: Sergio Leone, Hayao Miyazaki, Alex Garland
21 Jul 2023
My Name is Alfred Hitchcock review – mischievous grappling with a legendary filmography
Mark Cousins takes a stab at the most famous director in history... by bringing him back from the dead to explain his own work
10 Jul 2023
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One review – Tom Cruise delivers yet another exhilarating ode to tangible cinema
Christopher McQuarrie and his star do the impossible, delivering a seventh entry that reaffirms exactly what makes the franchise great
23 Jun 2023
The Wicker Man review – still the definitive experience in folk horror
Robin Hardy's iconic nightmare is back for its fiftieth anniversary, reaffirming its status as a singular entry in the horror canon
22 Jun 2023
No Hard Feelings review – something’s off with this “raunchy” sex comedy
Jennifer Lawrence returns to the Hollywood mainstream with a movie that both avoids its own premise and tries way too hard
30 May 2023
Killers of the Flower Moon review – Scorsese’s American epic compels but never quite blossoms
This hugely ambitious take on David Grann's non-fiction book is engaging and well-made, but it's lacking the director's usual spark
30 May 2023
The Old Oak review – Ken Loach’s last film is classic Ken Loach, for better or worse
The director's alleged "final" movie is another heavy-handed revolt against modern Britain, but its optimism eventually wins through
29 May 2023
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny review – serviceable sequel is digging in the wrong place
Though it has its moments, James Mangold's bid to recapture the franchise magic mostly feels like an act of imitation over inspiration
27 May 2023
Cobweb review – tangled meta-yarn quickly wears out its welcome
Genre-shifting director Kim Jee-woon comes to Cannes with a misfire about a filmmaker obsessed with reshooting his last movie
25 May 2023
Asteroid City review – style over substance, and drier than a desert
Wes Anderson's latest retro foray is visually inspired, but too many characters and a formal stiffness always keeps us at arm's length
24 May 2023
Club Zero review – weightless wellness satire frustrates and annoys
Austrian filmmaker Jessica Hausner returns with an undercooked story of a controversial teacher who shakes up a boarding school
22 May 2023
The Zone of Interest review – evil is made matter-of-fact in Jonathan Glazer’s chilling Holocaust drama
The fourth film by the British director is a deeply disturbing and suffocating look at complicity, loosely based on Martin Amis' novel