Film Review

By Preston Wilder Anya Taylor-Joy is Emma Woodhouse, “handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition” in the immortal opening lines of...

By Preston Wilder Tough-but-fair coach takes over a team that keeps losing, and turns them into winners. We’ve been here before, of course, in innumerable...

By Preston Wilder What do you think about when you think about Judy Garland? Maybe nothing; maybe she’s one of those long-ago icons who survive...

By Preston Wilder It’s a weird week for new releases: two low-budget horrors – and nothing else, unless you count a Sunday matinee of kids’...

By Preston Wilder What if Like a Boss were a well-disguised analogy for American politics? What if Mel (Rose Byrne) and Mia (Tiffany Haddish) stood,...

By Preston Wilder It seems wrong to say it – British period dramas coming, after all, with a presumption of Quality, not just entertainment –...

By Preston Wilder There’s a scene early on in Gretel & Hansel where the titular duo, lost in the forest, eat some funky-looking mushrooms they...

By Preston Wilder Can we call them ‘Little Women’? Afraid not, that title is already taken – but, more importantly, anyone using such belittling language...

By Preston Wilder The only slight issue about Little Women is that it’s Little Women. This won’t be a problem for many people – including...

By Preston Wilder This is not (in my opinion) a good film, but it’s a hard one to criticise – both because it means well...

By Preston Wilder Is Guy Ritchie good? To quote Barry the Baptist in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels: “He’s better’n good, he’s a f**kin’...

By Nikola Grozdanovic The story of Richard Jewell and the incident that defined his life has been relegated to the obscure pile of history, probably...

By Nikola Grozdanovic Jojo Rabbit is the most charming film centred around Nazi ideology to grace cinema screens since… well, ever. Leave it to the...

By Preston Wilder The battle for the soul of the horror movie continues to rage. Some (Us, for instance) use the genre to make political...

By Preston Wilder Come on lad, says the sergeant to a daydreaming soldier: “Pick a man. Bring your kit” – and we’re off, just like...

No-one would describe Jumanji: The Next Level as next-level filmmaking, unless the ‘next level’ is the one where films turn into glorified video games. Still,...