Corn Exchange

Origin review – a heartfelt look at a journalist challenging the concept of race

Tuesday, March 12th, 2024

Peter Bradshaw Guardian *** There are solid performances in this dramatisation of Isabel Wilkerson’s attempt to explain racism as an aspect of the caste system.

Origin review – a heartfelt look at a journalist challenging the concept of race | Film | The Guardian


All of Us Strangers review – Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott tremendous in a beautiful fantasy-romance

Monday, March 4th, 2024

Peter Bradshaw Guardian ***** Scott, Mescal and Claire Foy shine in a drama about a screenwriter who visits his childhood home to find his parents, who were killed in a car crash, still living there

All of Us Strangers review – Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott tremendous in a beautiful fantasy-romance | Film | The Guardian

 


All of Us Strangers review – Andrew Haigh’s drama grabs you by the heart and doesn’t let go

Monday, March 4th, 2024

Wendy Ide Guardian *****

This deeply personal portrait of newfound love and a traumatic past, starring Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal, is an emotionally wrenching masterpiece


The Taste of Things review –Juliette Binoche stars in deliciously subversive tale of later life love

Monday, March 4th, 2024

Wendy Ide Guardian review **** Binoche and Benoît Magimel play a 19th-century French cook and her gourmand employer in Tran Anh Hung’s gorgeous, simmering drama

The Taste of Things review –Juliette Binoche stars in deliciously subversive tale of later life love | Drama films | The Guardian

 


Dune: Part Two review – sci-fi sequel is immense, breathtaking wonder

Monday, March 4th, 2024

Wendy Ide Guardian **** Timothée Chalamet returns to the desert as Denis Villeneuve triumphs again in filming the unfilmable with a colour-saturated blockbuster contemplating zealotry and religious war.

Dune: Part Two review – sci-fi sequel is immense, breathtaking wonder | Science fiction and fantasy films | The Guardian

 


Driving Mum review – droll Icelandic road movie

Monday, March 4th, 2024

Wendy Ide review in the Guardian ***  With the body of his mother in the backseat, a man fulfils her last wish on a life-changing drive across the country in Hilmar Oddsson’s oddball odyssey.

Driving Mum review – droll Icelandic road movie | Drama films | The Guardian

 


Subtitles on Films

Friday, March 10th, 2023

We’re trialling adding subtitles to matinee film showings, except for childrens’ films, to improve accessibility for the hearing-impaired. We’re appreciative of the regular audience now for matinees and we want to make sure that we’ve done everything that we can to make it a great experience. We’ll start this Wednesday with Women Talking. We would appreciate your feedback.


Read about our films and shows

Saturday, March 4th, 2023

We’ve made some changes to our website recently and we have added a blog page containing previews and reviews of films and shows. Just click REVIEWS on the main page and read about what you’ve seen or are going to see. If you want to submit your own review just send a word document to reviews@cornexchange.org.uk


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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Matinee Film Showings are back

Tuesday, September 6th, 2022

Good news. We are putting on some regular matinee film showings starting in October. We understand from some audience members that they would like to come to the cinema in Wallingford in the afternoon. So to address this need we are putting on regular matinee performances on Wednesday and Saturday afternoons starting at 2:30pm. We hope that some of you will be able to come and watch a selection of  fabulous films. The first two films announced are See How They Run (12A) on Saturday 8th and Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (PG) on Wednesday 12th. Please look out for other films on the website.