“Can you style out a whole misjudged life? Equally fair to all three principals (which is to say, sometimes, uniformly savage), May December plays out in a register of ultra-arch camp that nods to the soap-operatics of the whole premise.“

“Deliberate and elegant in form, but with a fast heartbeat under its serenity, Anatomy of a Fall gives its audience plenty of space to breathe and gaze and ponder matters less immediate than simply whodunnit — though you may be arguing with yourself over that, too, for days to come.”

“Green and Oscar Redding’s script is an artful Rorschach test. How much terror and tension you find in it may depend on your own social biases and personal experiences — and, frankly, how much thought you give to the threat of male presence in your day-to-day existence.”

“You freeze and hold your breath with the film as it pulls back the curtain on realities nobody really wanted to admit or address in the cinema on a Saturday night; you fear not just for the women on screen, but for your fellow viewers, then and now.”

“Those teeth! Oh my. Off-white, wonky, stained, with something of the weasel about them, these are the teeth of a grifter, the teeth of a weak man, second-rate teeth, teeth whose owner is incapable of real love.”

“The Eras Tour — featuring concert footage, concert footage, more concert footage and nothing but concert footage — is a massive, somewhat overwhelming testament to Swift’s glistening, unrelenting professionalism as a performer.”

“The new Saw movie is the best one in ages, and if you like that kind of thing, feel free to go get your rocks off with pride, ignoring any boring prudes judging your kinks or shaming your proud torture porn positivity”

“A tense, icy-hot boardroom psychodrama in which power is sex — or at least, in the increasingly fraught relationship between two Wall Street analysts climbing the ladder at different paces, it begins to determine it rather coldly.”

“The actors are the fabric of this film, and by the time an explosive town hall meeting rolls around and unfolds in real time, I was completely under their collective spell.”

“Past Lives has stuck these past few months: when I think of it, I’m hit with the same soft, lapping wave of sadness that got me the first time, the same pang of attachment to a life, and a self, that hasn’t deserted me exactly, but now seems distant and strange.”

“Ira Sachs’ exquisite Passages feels like the Sunday Bloody Sunday of its era, albeit with the older film’s buttoned-up Englishness replaced with a shimmying Parisian fluidity.”

“Any creative types may find themselves watching this otherwise gentle, ambling film in something close to a cold sweat, as we recall the times we've lied to loved ones and colleagues about their work, or doubted their praise of ours.”

“Like really good fast food, fast cinema should feel throwaway, yet totally delicious.”

“I don’t say this lightly, as I’m a huge fan of the 1999 Devon Sawa slacker horror Idle Hands, but for providing decent jumps and scares within a compelling character-driven context, Talk To Me is a serious new contender for best ever evil-hand-themed horror movie.”

“The other thing that this reminded me of was the Proustian free-association of memory, where one memory can lead directly to the next, but at other times, the associations are looser or deeper or less intuitive, and the effect is of a river of time ebbing and flowing and circling back on itself.”

“Boulifa worked inventively with the spare, tight tropes of British kitchen-sink realism in his excellent debut, but under warmer Moroccan skies, he permits himself a more sensuous, bejewelled cinematic language.”

“Constructed entirely from archive, some of it previously unseen, and laser-focused on the brief period that the band was active, a good part of its pleasure is to be found simply in lolling around in the early ‘80s, enjoying the hair, the outfits, the music.”

“Shô Miyake’s lovely, bittersweet portrait of a deaf woman boxer is playing its own game, or fighting its own fight, and its rewards aren’t euphoric, but they’re substantial nonetheless.”

“I appreciate the clash of tones and textures in No Hard Feelings, its smuggling of human sadness into sunny popcorn fodder, and the way it allows its megawatt star to play hot and cold, big and small, high and low, smart and dumb.”

“Chemistry is tricksier and slipperier — it lives in the body as well as the mind, and exists largely in the subjective eye of the beholder. Chemistry will creep up and have its way with you; it is porous and sinuous and extends beyond the performances of the actors in a film, seeping into their surroundings.”