Napoleon review – Joaquin Phoenix makes a magnificent emperor in thrilling biopic ***** Peter Bradshaw – Guardian

Wednesday, November 15th, 2023

Ridley Scott dispenses with the symbolic weight attached to previous biopics in favour of a spectacle with a great star at its centre

Napoleon review – Joaquin Phoenix makes a magnificent emperor in thrilling biopic | Film | The Guardian

The Royal Hotel Review – Peter Bradshaw Guardian ***

Friday, November 3rd, 2023

Kitty Green’s film stars Julia Garner and Jessica Henwick as backpackers forced to take a dodgy-sounding job dealing with the boozy miners in the dusty middle of nowhere

The Royal Hotel review – outback noir shows sinister sexism behind the banter | Film | The Guardian

The Royal Hotel

On the Adamant review – Berlin winner offers art and soul aboard a floating Parisian day-care centre

Saturday, October 21st, 2023

Peter Bradshaw Guardian    ****   from the Berlin Film Festival

On the Adamant is most moving when it stands back, letting its most disenfranchised subjects talk, or shout, or sing. 80 The Guardian Peter Bradshaw There is a gentle and very happy sense of freedom and possibility aboard the Adamant, and there is enormous warmth, sympathy and human curiosity in this film.

On the Adamant review – Berlin winner offers art and soul aboard a floating Parisian day-care centre | Berlin film festival 2023 | The Guardian

Women Talking

Wednesday, March 1st, 2023;   Reviewed by: Nicola Webb

5/5 The Independent;
91% Rotten Tomatoes;
4/5 Empire Online;

The bald plot facts are that the women of an isolated religious colony reveal a shocking secret about the colony’s men. For years, the men have occasionally drugged the women and then raped them. The truth comes out and the women talk about their new situation.

Overall, the critics say while Women Talking sometimes forsakes entertaining drama in favour of simply getting its points across, its message is valuable – and effectively delivered.

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