Charlotte Rampling
Juniper is a beautifully filmed and excellently acted drama about the pursuit of repairing familial relations and learning to accept the inevitable.
A 17th-century nun in Italy suffers from disturbing religious and erotic visions. She
Paul Verhoeven’s latest film Benedetta, based on the infamous 17th century, has the Catholic Church up in arms as it delivers the satire.
The Little Stranger is a demanding but absorbing thriller – it will not spoon feed you scares, and it’s all the better for it.
Red Sparrow is solidly engaging, a blistering and intense film with Jennifer Lawrence’s skill and Francis Lawrence’s well-crafted atmosphere.
The Sense of an Ending is a commendable effort from both director and cast, yet its underwritten characters become lost in adaptation.
45 Years is unquestionably well-written and well-acted, to such a high degree that is literally impossible to argue otherwise. To say that Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay give two of the most emotionally effective performances of their long and illustrious careers is equivalent to saying that the sky is blue and the world is round; it is so plainly obvious, arguing in its favour seems like a waste of time, as the greatness is clearly there for all to see. Emotionally engaging from the opening minutes On paper, the film feels like the opposite of director Andrew Haigh’s previous film Weekend; that film was about two men who meet and fall in love over the course of (you guessed it) a weekend, after a one night stand turns into something deeper.