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Lessons from Olivia Wilde’s meticulously crafted screwball comedy about inviting the neighbours over for dinner… and maybe more?
Lessons from the horror smash – and its 26-year-old writer-director’s journey from YouTube to making box office history.
Lessons from the directing, design, and discourse of Emerald Fennell’s interpretation of Emily Brontë’s gothic novel.
Not the romcom it’s perhaps made out to be?
Charming leads, missed opportunities.
Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos: creating unique perspective.
A round-up of breakdowns of Wes Anderson’s rich, intricate film.
Proving a standard-Christmas-movie-but-gay can work just fine.
A promising first draft. Of a remake. Of an adaptation.
Everyone and everything in this romance is beautiful and accomplished. So why isn’t the sum of these parts… better?
A charming, meticulously-crafted film can be glimpsed in here, in between cuts that get in the way.
An important moment in representation in American film – and a genuinely good Rom-Com.
The closing credit sequence – that single shot – is a movie, is life, itself.
Jessica Williams is gifted, and she’ll probably be a star one day. Until then, this is a lot of fun.
The Elvis Impersonator of musicals: it clearly loves the thing it’s trying to be, while missing the very point.
Gritty retelling of fairytales X star power X film industry politics = erm, family movie?
Spend some time in this horrible dystopia – it’s a delirious joy.
Sci-fi love story, but only in your mind.
So much better – and in a whole genre – than the marketing might suggest.
When a film is nowhere near as challenging, technically or thematically, as it thinks it is.
Shout out to Gosling’s black top. How does he make that thing look like it belongs in a smart casual setting?
Bran versus donuts: the story says it’s about striving to balance both, but the movie serves us neither.
Mind-numbingly predictable, brain-piercingly glacial.
Sweet, gentle, and helpfully, encouragingly naïve.
In which there’s a scene where the couple spends one “romantic” date visiting an art gallery and making fun of someone else’s art. The gall.
A 145-minute “Fuck you” to the series – in a fancy frock.