by David Jenkins
Chloé Zhao casts fresh eyes on one of the most analysed artworks in history in her adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel, boasting a pair of formidable central performances.
by Jenna Mahale
Aneil Karia’s Hamlet, starring Riz Ahmed as the doomed prince, is an occasionally beautiful but largely inert exercise.
Yorgos Lanthimos returns with his merry band to explore – in triptych form – all the funny and sick ways in which we entrap ourselves inside psychological prisons of our own making.
by Jourdain Searles
Claire Denis adapts Denis Johnson’s 1986 novel about love in a time of revolution, with fascinating results.
by Hannah Strong
A teenager in Medieval Lincolnshire contends with suitors and friendship problems in Lena Dunham’s winsome coming-of-age dramedy.
by Katie Goh
This origin story of an American hero, starring Cynthia Erivo, is rendered as a bland adventure yarn.
by Adam Nayman
Ang Lee takes American exceptionalism to task in this hyper-real spectacle.
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