Last Flag Flying: Linklater’s latest
Fred Fyles dives deep into Linklater’s wisecrack fuelled road trip drama, starring Steve Carell, Bryan Cranston, and Laurence Fishburne, and does not like what he finds...
The Shape of Oscars
Film Editor Ashley Luckyram reacts to landmark nominations for first-timers Greta Gerwig and Jordan Peel, as Phantom Thread and Paul Thomas Anderson ghost into the reckoning.
The Post – confessions of a news editor
Steven Spielberg’s prestige drama is nothing short of professional, but lacks frisson and excitement.
Greg Barker’s Obama doc The Final Year is an exercise in hagiography
The exploration of Obama’s last year in office is greatly lessened by a refusal to criticise.
From high-school comedies to dark police dystopias – an anime for all seasons
Anime is much more than it might appear at first. TV writers and anime enthusiasts Mingrou Xie and Pavan Inguva take you through their top picks for all tastes.
Killer robots, memory scanners, and self-driving pizza – welcome to the Black Mirror future
Charlie Brooker is back, with six new episodes of his dark sci-fi anthology. But how do these episodes compare to seasons past? We take you through the highs, the lows, and the weird.
Hard Sun – Five years until the world ends in this melodramatic miniseries
Agyness Deyn and Jim Sturgess have enormous fun in Neil Cross’ show, which is completely bonkers, but fails to make the most of its interesting premise.
Sundance Film Festival: Start as you mean to go on
Twelve months ago Sundance kicked off a wonderful year for film – what will the 2018 edition bring?
Is time up for Woody Allen?
At one point, it seemed that #MeToo and Time’s Up would pass director Woody Allen by, but things are starting to change, as more actors disavow their relationships with him.
Gary Oldman showing us how it’s done-kirk
Darkest Hour is a stolid drama, but not much beyond that.
A messy, ham-fisted take on race and violence
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri heads into the Oscars race as a front-runner, but Martin McDonagh’s third feature tries to take on the heavy-hitting topic of police brutality, and falls flat.
Money can’t buy you everything…
Ridley Scott’s All the Money in the World tries to take on too much, and the result is a film that lacks focus.