Talent Emma Stone

Three adults, two men and a woman, embracing intimately in a dimly lit room, with warm orange tones casting a soft glow.
Review

Kinds of Kindness review – a salacious, sun-bleached fable

by David Jenkins

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.

5
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
5
In Retrospect
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Review

Poor Things review – Lanthimos at his most playful and comedic

by Savina Petkova

Emma Stone gives a career-defining performance in Yorgos Lanthimos’ opulent provocation about the human body as a nexus for pleasure and pain.

5
Anticipation
5
Enjoyment
5
In Retrospect
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Review

Cruella

by Hannah Strong

Emma Stone plays the fur-loving fashionista in this overlong and largely uninspired origin story.

2
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
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Review

Zombieland: Double Tap

by David Jenkins

A tiresome folly that rejoins us with the characters of a mildly successful 2009 horror-comedy which absolutely no-one remembers.

2
Anticipation
2
Enjoyment
1
In Retrospect
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Review

The Favourite

by David Jenkins

Olivia Colman is sublime as Queen Anne in Yorgos Lanthimos’ absurdist period tragicomedy.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
Two people, a man and a woman, holding tennis rackets on a stage with a curtained background.
Review

Battle of the Sexes

by David Jenkins

Emma Stone and Steve Carell go head-to-head in this fascinating true story of sport and sexism.

4
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
Two people, a man in a suit and tie and a woman in a coral-coloured dress, standing on a balcony at sunset.
Review

La La Land

by Christina Newland

Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling are a match made in old-school movie heaven in this dazzling musical.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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Review

Irrational Man

by David Ehrlich

Joaquin Phoenix and Emma Stone go back to school in this charmingly off-kilter comedy-thriller from Woody Allen.

3
Anticipation
1
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
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Review

Birdman

by Adam Woodward

Michael Keaton soars in director Alejandro González Iñárritu’s triumphant return to form.

5
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
5
In Retrospect
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Review

Magic in the Moonlight

by David Ehrlich

Woody Allen effortlessly does Woody Allen in a lightweight, none-too-hilarious period comedy.

3
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
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Review

The Amazing Spider-Man 2

by Chris Blohm

Your friendly neighbourhood web-slinger returns for more of the same, albeit with much less charm.

4
Anticipation
2
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
A man in a red superhero costume, looking seriously at the camera with web-like strings crossing in front of him.
Review

The Amazing Spider-Man

by Matt Bochenski

Despite a few comic book movie trappings, The Amazing Spider-Man is a major success story.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect

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