Fury: the men blow stuff up, then Brad Pitt takes his top off
Fury is a second world war drama that plays with us viscerally and unsparingly — I think I saw a…
The Best of Me is more of a sleepie than a weepie - especially when our old friend No Sexual Chemistry makes an appearance
Take tissues to The Best of Me, I’d read, as it’s such a weepie, so I took tissues, being a…
Effie Gray can effie off
Effie Gray, which has been written by Emma Thompson and recounts the doomed marriage of Victorian art critic John Ruskin…
David Fincher plays Gone Girl for laughs - at least I hope he is
Gone Girl is David Fincher’s adaptation of the bestselling thriller by Gillian Flynn, a relentless page-turner which I’ve heard people…
Outnumbered: The Movie (But Crap)
What We Did On Our Holiday is written and directed by Guy Jenkin and Andy Hamilton, the pair who created…
Before I Go to Sleep prefers creepy car parks to feelings
Before I Go To Sleep is Rowan Joffe’s adaptation of S.J. Watson’s bestselling thriller of 2011, but whereas the book…
Night Moves – the opposite of a Dan Brown film
Night Moves is a film by Kelly Reichardt, who also made the heart-wrenching Wendy and Lucy (2008), which may be…
The Inbetweeners 2 is as filthy as a teenage boy – and it's hilarious
The first Inbetweeners film made £45 million at the box office, and was such an unexpected smash there was always…
Allergic to blockbusters? See Wakolda
Wakolda is not a sunny film for a sunny day, just so you’re aware, but as there is so little…
Moon Indigo: an all-you-can-eat buffet for the eyes - but your brain will feel famished
Your enjoyment of Michel Gondry’s Mood Indigo may entirely depend on how much visual whimsy you can take, what your…
The problem with Believe is you simply won’t believe any of it - unless you’re a child
The trouble with Believe is that, unless you are ten years old or under, which I’m assuming you are not,…
How did a New York nanny become one of the great photographers of the 20th century?
Finding Vivian Maier is a documentary about the American nanny who led a wholly secretive life as a photographer and…
A miracle: a three-hour film that flies by
Richard Linklater’s observational chronicle, Boyhood, was 12 years in the making and is 166 minutes long — that’s nearly three…
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of a Window and Bloody Well Should Have Disappeared
If it were up to me this would be called ‘The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window, Fell, and…
Walking on Sunshine: the feel-ennui musical of the year
As far as ‘jukebox films’ go, Mamma Mia! was a riot, Sunshine on Leith was tolerable, just about, while Walking…
A funny weepie that paints itself into a contrived corner
The Fault in Our Stars, which is based on the bestselling young-adult novel by John Green, is about two teenagers…
Belle has everything going for it – except for a decent soundtrack or script or plot or acting
Belle is based on the true story of Dido Elizabeth Belle, the illegitimate, mixed-race daughter of a sea captain and…
Grace of Monaco: a big, glistening, strutting, irresistible turkey
Grace of Monaco, the Grace Kelly biopic starring Nicole Kidman, is an absolute joy, and I highly recommend it. Unless…
Avoid the latest commercial juggernaut and go off-road with Run & Jump
When you see the latest corporate entertainment juggernaut hurtling at you, what are your options? When I saw X-Men: Days…
The humans in Godzilla are so bland and dull you may well find yourself rooting for the monster
Godzilla is from the director Gareth Edwards, a Brit whose first film, Monsters, truly put him on the map, as…
‘Sometimes audiences applauded Frank; sometimes they threw stuff at him’
Frank is a music biopic, but only of sorts, as it is not at all like your average music biopic.…
Blue Ruin is unwatchable, bloody – but, from what I saw, rather good
Blue Ruin is a low-budget yet highly accomplished revenge thriller although whether you have the stomach for it is another…
If The Other Woman is a box-office hit, I’m going to have to top myself
The Other Woman is not just an extremely bad film but also a wholly reprehensible one (she says, with her…
Waiting for Godot - but with plot
If the very first scene of Calvary doesn’t immediately draw you in there’s every chance there is something seriously wrong…
The Double will stay in your mind, like a bit of food caught in a tooth
I should warn you that if you go see The Double it is one of those films that will trouble…
