Reviews

Avatar: The Way Of Water
Avatar: The Way Of Water Review

In the near-decade-and-a-half since we last visited Pandora, the humans in the...

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Babylon
Babylon Review

You will seldom find a film as simultaneously romantic and repulsive...

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The Silent Twins
The Silent Twins Review

The first few minutes of The Silent Twins are wonderfully striking....

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Charlotte
Charlotte Review

The painter Charlotte Salomon has long drawn comparisons to Anne Frank. Like...

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Last Flight Home
Last Flight Home Review

Last Flight Home starts at the end, before going back to the beginning....

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It's A Wonderful Life
EMPIRE ESSAY: It’s A Wonderful Life Review

If there's one film synonymous with Christmas, it's Frank Capra's 1946 fantasy...

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Sr
“Sr.” Review

“We had no overt agenda about this project,” says Robert Downey Jr, at the...

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Emancipation
Emancipation Review

Slavery is a near-impossible subject matter to get right on screen. To...

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White Noise
White Noise Review

Across three decades and around a dozen directorial efforts, we have come to...

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Tori And Lokita
Tori And Lokita Review

Vittorio De Sica could be sentimental, while Ken Loach tends to polemicise. But...

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Violent Night
Violent Night Review

Here comes Santa Claus. He’s got a sleigh full of presents, a big red coat,...

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Strange World
Strange World Review

It’s rare that Walt Disney Animation Studios goes full sci-fi. The Mouse...

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Nanny
Nanny Review

Nikyatu Jusu’s directorial feature starts as it means to go on: Rina Yang’s...

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Lady Chatterley's Lover
Lady Chatterley’s Lover Review

D.H. Lawrence’s famed 1928 novel about an upper-class woman fulfilling her...

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She Said
She Said Review

Journalists are rarely interesting enough to be the centre of a film. There’s...

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Matilda
Matilda The Musical Review

Roald Dahl’s 1988 novel Matilda was a late-career highlight, an empowering...

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Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special
The Guardians Of The Galaxy Holiday Special Review

If The Guardians Of The Galaxy Holiday Special is the final shot of...

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Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio Review

Early on in Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, in a church, the little wooden...

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Bones And All
Bones And All Review

Bones And All seems, at first glance, to be another entry in the ‘Sexy...

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Glass Onion
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Review

Whether you’re a detective or a director, taking on a new case is always...

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Disenchanted
Disenchanted Review

Released in 2007, Enchanted found the Walt Disney studio in an unusually...

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Score, The
The Score Review

So, we have a craggy safe-cracker, world-weary and set on retirement, in that...

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Armageddon Time
Armageddon Time Review

“You just want me to be like you,” says 12-year-old Paul Graff (Banks...

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Confess, Fletch
Confess, Fletch Review

After more false starts than we can possibly recount within an agreed-upon...

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Bardo
Bardo, False Chronicle Of A Handful Of Truths Review

Now more than ever, filmmakers are making films about filmmaking: Steven...

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Aftersun
Aftersun Review

Rare and special is a film capable of summoning this much poignancy: a feeling...

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Spirited
Spirited Review

From The Muppets to Edmund Blackadder, comedy greats have been wringing laughs...

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The Menu
The Menu Review

Mark Mylod’s The Menu begins as a dressing-down of opulence before...

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The Swimmers
The Swimmers Review

The Mardini sisters have a real-life story so rare, it’s...

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