Cinema

Woody Allen's new film will so knock your socks off, you will never retrieve them again

28 September 2013 9:00 am

Blue Jasmine is the latest film from Woody Allen who, at various stages of his career, has been declared on-form,…

No rest for Diana - the biopic of the late princess is so inept it's not even hagiography

21 September 2013 9:00 am

Someone who knows their Dianaology will have to fill me in – did this actually happen? The late Princess Di…

Trigger happy: Channing Tatum as John Cale

White House Down is Roland Emmerich’s Hedda Gabler

14 September 2013 9:00 am

Just do it, quoth the Nike advert — and these men just did it. Grass, asphalt, fear, pain, doubt and…

About Time review: If Richard Curtis is brilliant at anything, it’s Upper Middle Class Lifestyle Porn

7 September 2013 9:00 am

The easiest thing would be to sneer at Richard Curtis’s new film About Time, and so I will a little,…

Utterly natural: Onata Aprile and Alexander Skarsgård in ‘What Maisie Knew’

A painful but brilliant film: Deborah Ross on Maisie’s betrayal

24 August 2013 9:00 am

What Maisie Knew is an adaptation of the Henry James 1897 novel, updated to Manhattan in the now, and is…

Beautifully acted: Nihal Koldas and Begüm Akkaya in ‘Kuma’

Kuma would shine at any time of the year

17 August 2013 9:00 am

Mid-August is a hopeless time for films; so hopeless, useless and bleak, if I don’t use three words when one…

A genius creation: Alan Partridge aka Steve Coogan

It’s possible that Deborah Ross left her critical faculties outside the screening room

10 August 2013 9:00 am

The thing is, I love the character of Alan Partridge so much it may well be that, when it came…

Sandra Bullock must be blindfolded when she picks her movies

3 August 2013 9:00 am

Sandra Bullock is a highly watchable actress and she seems like she’d be fun to hang out with — I…

At last, a film about proper women who aren’t just drippily searching for love

27 July 2013 9:00 am

Frances Ha will make many spit ‘Frances…Bah!’ but I won’t be among them. Yes, it is rather kooky, and highly…

Spirited and wryly subversive: Waad Mohammed (Wadjda)

Wadjda is Saudi Arabia’s first feature-length film and is shot by a woman

20 July 2013 9:00 am

Wadjda is the first feature-length film to come out of Saudi Arabia, and was shot by the country’s first female…

Yes, 'The Moo Man' is a film about cows. But it is absolutely amazing

13 July 2013 9:00 am

Pacific Rim is a giant monsters v. giant robots film and although written and directed by Guillermo del Toro, who…

Emma Watson shines in The Bling Ring

6 July 2013 9:00 am

Sofia Coppola’s latest film is not an action adventure, or a supernatural horror, or a stoner comedy, just so you…