Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt star as a fading western star and his mutt-loving stunt double in this relaxed and loving roast of bygone Tinseltown. CS Read the review. The butterflies are too tropical for Hampstead, but the rest is spot-on.
Agitprop, and essential. Kathryn Hahn and Paul Giamatti struggle to start a family, and to keep their marriage together, in this subtle, funny and often wondrously uncomfortable Netflix comedy written and directed by Tamara Jenkins. Russell Crowe bellows and glowers opposite hyper-evil Joaquin Phoenix and lugubrious Oliver Reed who died during production. Yet there are many grace notes under the fire and fury. Giddy yet gripping.
AP Read the review. None of them had actually seen the film, a powerful, compassionate drama starring Cillian Murphy and Padraic Delaney as Republican brothers split by the civil war that followed independence in CC Read the review. A young solider and a feral boy fall in love, dance to the Clash then trek to the jungle searching for a shaman dressed up as a tiger.
Sarah Polley followed Away From Her and Take This Waltz by turning the camera on her own family secrets in this tricksy and compassionate documentary uncovering the true identity of her father. Actor Katie Jarvis took six years off after shooting; roughly the same as audiences needed to recover from the shake it gave, and the sight of Michael Fassbender.
Iranian-French director Marjane Satrapi adapted her own graphic novel in this animated fantasy-memoir about a year-old girl growing up in Tehran after the revolution. A real original, and it still looks unique. Steven Soderbergh is the Renaissance man of American cinema, and this intricately crafted heist movie β remade from the old Frank Sinatra chestnut β shows him on never-bettered, commercially minded form.
