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I saw Pasolini's The Gospel According to St Matthew recently, thanks to MUBI. Pasolini's Christ is not some wimpy angel of peace an...

Are there two versions of this film? One that the American reviewers saw, and the one I saw recently at my local Cineworld? This is not t...

The reviewers seem a little puzzled by this film. It’s about a thirty-something woman, Michal, who turned to God in her twenties, has a ditz...

A couple of months ago a friend of mine told me about a movie he'd seen in which a young man drives himself crazy trying to play drums l...

Security consultants have a vested interest in scaring you, your employer's IT department and the politicians. Mo' fear means mo...

Citizen Four is an excellent documentary about the first days of the Edward Snowden revelations. There’s a lot of him in the movie, and he ...

Ken Loach’s Topsy-Turvey is one of my favourite films, and one of the best films made about the creative process: in that film the creation ...

I have no idea how anyone writes songs. I can extemporise instrumental music on the guitar, piano and recorder; I can write plays, have writ...

It’s taken a while to process this movie. It’s not an art-house version of Thanks For Sharing , and neither, thank God, is it a art-house ve...

You will know from your attendance at Political Correctness 101 that films about prostitution must portray the men as creeps, abusers and pr...

Now this is how you make a movie about sex addiction. A swift digression brought on by a little scene at the start of the movie: one big dif...

I know. Everyone will be reviewing this. Everyone in London is going to see it. It's the third in a series that might have a fourth (...

I finally caught up with this film at the Renoir one Sunday morning. That evening I read the reviews and wondered if I had seen the same fi...

So I saw Elles the other Sunday. You may need to check which version your local art-house is playing, because I think there are two. They ...

It's said that English - read, London-based - movie critics don't like Richard Curtis's films. It's something about the way...

I saw this film about three weeks ago and I still haven't quite sorted it out. I like the director's other movies, and Diabolo Cody...

I saw the much-hyped Steve McQueen movie Shame  Sunday afternoon. Here's what one of the characters would say to describe their crazy be...

For years I heard people talking about Brief Encounter. It was a deeply moving study of unrequited love, middle-class self-control, a Noel C...

Samantha Morton is best known for her performance as the psychic in Minority Report  and puts in a remarkable performance in one of my must-...

I'd been wondering if I should watch The History Boys for some time, any reluctance caused by the trailers which suggested that it was S...