Tag: film reviews
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Claude Lanzmann’s brilliant reappraisal of a great man who paid the price of survival.
If there were an Oscar for best performance in a documentary, it would have to be a joint award: first to the late Benjamin Murmelstein, the plump, spirited 70-year-old interviewee, […]
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When your enemy is your double you’re in trouble; so is this unsatisfying, cryptic thriller.
Earlier this year, the Director Richard Ayoade gave us a stylised adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel, The Double, starring Jesse Eisenberg as both a brilliant but introverted and overlooked company […]
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It’s Annie….but it isn’t.
When six-year-old Quvenzhané Wallis burst on the scene in the weird and rather wonderful Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012), she was so charismatic, you could not take her eyes […]