the thew reviews

For nearly nine years, this blog has reviewed every new film I saw at the cinema and, in 2018, online streaming services too (although this ...

We're often told that this film or that film is unlike anything we've seen before and often it isn't. When it comes to Marvel fi...

Guillermo del Toro may never make another film as good as Pan's Labyrinth (2006). Many filmmakers don't even get close in the first...

Netflix is flexing its muscles and a lot of the publicity this year has been taken up with Roma and The Ballard of Buster ...

One of the finest screenwriters working, Paul Schrader returns to writing and directing with another detailed study of a br...

Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma is a beautifully shot family drama that unfolds, slowly and quietly, but with devastating effect. Told with one of ...

There is a line, delivered by Steven Yeun’s Squeeze in the final third of Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You that is revelatory, both abo...