Tag Archives: Lyna Khoudri

A clever, visually impressive, star-studded but indigestible smorgasbord

Joyce Glasser reviews The French Dispatch (October 10, 2021) Cert 15, 108 mins. From the sound of it, you would have to be a bitter Brexiteer or a morose philistine not to love Wes Anderson’s new film ...

andrew 1345 views 0 likes Nov 17, 2021

A star is born in this topical, feminist film debut, set in the 1990’s Algerian civil war

Papicha (August 7, 2020), Cert tbc, 105 mins. Showing at selected cinemas and on digital platforms. There are not many films that remind us – if we remember it all – of the brutal 1995 Civil war in Al ...

andrew 1913 views 0 likes Aug 25, 2020