Greta Gerwig’s Barbie: the art of selling out
The director has achieved her ambition of becoming a blockbuster director – but at what cost?
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Mission Intolerable: a stupid franchise gets stupider
Reviewing the Tom Cruise film Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One is an exercise as absurd as critiquing porn…
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In praise of the DVD
The infinite choice of TV streaming has led to banality and fatigue – it’s time to embrace physical media once…
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Return to Seoul: a film made with more genius than cash
In this fantastic, low-budget film, a French-Korean woman adopted at a young age returns to the place of her birth.
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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny: a feeble last crack of the whip
The Harrison Ford franchise that began with spectacle and wit has ended with a dull, predictable, CGI-laden dud.
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How Jurassic Park invented the CGI blockbuster
With Jurassic Park, which turns 30 this month, Steven Spielberg proved that imagination did not need to be limited by what was…
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In Asteroid City, Wes Anderson is beyond parody
As a trend for homages to his work explodes, the director doubles down on his mannerisms in his most affected…
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Remembering Glenda Jackson – the unstarry star of cinema and politics
The Oscar-winning actor and Labour firebrand, who has died aged 87, had an extraordinary career. In person, she was defiantly,…
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