Movie of the week: Magic Mike
Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Magic Mike’ somehow looks like a much darker and more challenging movie than is actually the case.
Movie of the week: The Amazing Spider-Man
Five years after the ropey Spider-Man III crawled out of the multiplex plughole, starring a jaded Tobey Maguire, the reset button has been pressed.
Movie of the week: The Dictator
The Dictator is set to make Peter Sellers’s Inspector Clouseau a model of subtlety and sensitivity.
Movie of the week: Wuthering Heights
Director Andrea Arnold and cinematographer Robbie Ryan strip Emily Bront’s only novel down to its bare essentials: pain, anger and love.
Banned filmmaker’s most powerful statement
In 2010 Iranian filmmakers Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof were sentenced to six years in prison for alleged crimes against national security.
Blood on the sofa
At its best, <em>Carnage </em>is a spiky satire on contemporary bourgeois correctness; at its worst, it;s a strained piece of upscale dinner theatre.
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Gloriously funny and achingly tender
<i>The Artist</i> has to be the first film that has left <b>Peter Bradshaw</b> weeping tears of joy.
Good cop, bad cop
<em>Rampart</em> is a gripping movie, and a great addition to the Ellroy canon.
Ironed out
Poor Margaret Thatcher: her transformation into biopic drag queen is now complete.
Mother of the beast
Can bad children happen to good parents, or do they reveal their parents’ flaws? This is the question raised in <i>We Need to Talk about Kevin</i>.
