Film reviews

<p>Alice Lowe in ‘Timestalker’ </p>

Timestalker is a British time-travel comedy you absolutely must see

The ‘Garth Marenghi’ star has written and directed a cross-historical jaunt that lands somewhere between Sally Potter’s ‘Orlando’ and Terry Gilliam’s ‘Baron Munchausen’

<p>Saoirse Ronan and Elliott Heffernan in Steve McQueen’s ‘Blitz’ </p>

Steve McQueen’s Blitz is a monumental achievement in British cinema

<p>Adam Pearson in ‘A Different Man’ </p>

A Different Man would make for a great double bill with The Substance

<p>Paint your noggin: Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix in ‘Joker: Folie à Deux’</p>

Joker: Folie à Deux is just as bleak and daring as the original

<p>Midsommar murders: Matt Smith in the folk horror tale ‘Starve Acre’ </p>

Matt Smith gets his own Wicker Man in the provocative Starve Acre

Morfydd Clark co-stars in the latest in a resurgence of British spook-fests that riff on countryside chillers of the Seventies

Matt Smith gets his own Wicker Man in the provocative Starve Acre

Morfydd Clark co-stars in the latest in a resurgence of British spook-fests that riff on countryside chillers of the Seventies

<p>Midsommar murders: Matt Smith in the folk horror tale ‘Starve Acre’ </p>

<p>Angelina Jolie in the Maria Callas film ‘Maria'</p>

Angelina Jolie’s performance as Maria Callas is career-defining

<p>Michael Keaton in ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ </p>

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is incoherent incoherent

<p>Mo Chara in ‘Kneecap’ </p>

Kneecap is a sweary, crude and brilliantly political Irish comedy

<p>Hunter Schafer in ‘Cuckoo’ </p>

Hunter Schafer is a horror heroine for the ages in the twisty Cuckoo

<p>Hunter Schafer in ‘Cuckoo’ </p>

Hunter Schafer is a horror heroine for the ages in the twisty Cuckoo

<p>Naomi Ackie in Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut ‘Blink Twice’ </p>

Channing Tatum thriller Blink Twice falls apart on closer inspection

<p>Breath mint?: Cailee Spaeny is menaced by a Xenomorph in ‘Alien: Romulus’</p>

Alien: Romulus starts well, but becomes increasingly problematic

<p>Wind it up: Daisy Edgar-Jones and Glen Powell in ‘Twisters’ </p>

Does Twisters blow? Quite the opposite, in fact

Daisy Edgar-Jones and Glen Powell are the charismatic leads of a sharply edited, comfortingly old-school affair

Does Twisters blow? Quite the opposite, in fact

Daisy Edgar-Jones and Glen Powell are the charismatic leads of a sharply edited, comfortingly old-school affair

<p>Wind it up: Daisy Edgar-Jones and Glen Powell in ‘Twisters’ </p>

<p>Just don’t look: Maika Monroe in ‘Longlegs’</p>

Longlegs isn’t too terrifying, but it’s still a freaky little thing

<p>Scarlett Johansson in ‘Fly Me to the Moon’ </p>

Scarlett Johansson romcom Fly Me to the Moon is problematic nonsense

Eddie Murphy’s Beverly Hills Cop sequel fails to get with the times

<p>Mia Goth in ‘MaXXXine'</p>

Mia Goth stuns in MaXXXine, the cocaine-fuelled Hollywood slasher

<p>Mia Goth in ‘MaXXXine'</p>

Mia Goth stuns in MaXXXine, the cocaine-fuelled Hollywood slasher

<p>Kevin Costner in ‘Horizon: An American Saga Chapter 1’ </p>

Kevin Costner’s very, very long Horizon Chapter 1 is no Yellowstone

<p>Lupita Nyong’o in ‘A Quiet Place: Day One’ </p>

A Quiet Place prequel is the most emotionally satisfying in the series

<p>Léa Seydoux in Bertrand Bonello’s ‘The Beast’</p>

Léa Seydoux’s The Beast is a mesmeric blend of sci-fi and horror

The works of French filmmaker Bertrand Bonello are designed to provoke – and this time-hopping drama, co-starring George MacKay, is no different

Léa Seydoux’s The Beast is a mesmeric blend of sci-fi and horror

The works of French filmmaker Bertrand Bonello are designed to provoke – and this time-hopping drama, co-starring George MacKay, is no different

<p>Léa Seydoux in Bertrand Bonello’s ‘The Beast’</p>

<p>Glen Powell in Richard Linklater’s ‘Hit Man’ </p>

Glen Powell delivers the movie star goods in Netflix comedy Hit Man

<p>Catastrophe: Garfield, as voiced by Chris Pratt, in ‘The Garfield Movie’ </p>

Garfield gets an unhinged traumatic origin story in this dismal reboot

<p>Anya Taylor-Joy in ‘Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga’ </p>

Mad Max prequel Furiosa is emotional, witty and savage

<p>Bea (Cailey Fleming) and an imaginary friend (voiced by Steve Carell) in ‘IF’ </p>

Ryan Reynolds comedy IF unsuccessfully aims for Spielbergian wonder

<p>Bea (Cailey Fleming) and an imaginary friend (voiced by Steve Carell) in ‘IF’ </p>

Ryan Reynolds comedy IF unsuccessfully aims for Spielbergian wonder

<p>One of the apes of ‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’, as played by Eka Darville</p>

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes has great apes, but stale humans

<p>Josh O’Connor in ‘La Chimera’ </p>

Josh O’Connor embarks on a treasure hunt in the dreamy La Chimera

<p>Uncanny: Gillian Anderson and Rufus Sewell as Emily Maitlis and Prince Andrew in ‘Scoop’ </p>

Scoop immaculately recreates Prince Andrew’s Newsnight interview

An excellent performance from Billie Piper can’t cover up the fact that this is a slightly hollow dramatisation

Scoop immaculately recreates Prince Andrew’s Newsnight interview

An excellent performance from Billie Piper can’t cover up the fact that this is a slightly hollow dramatisation

<p>Uncanny: Gillian Anderson and Rufus Sewell as Emily Maitlis and Prince Andrew in ‘Scoop’ </p>

<p>Behind you!: Sonia Braga and Nell Tiger Free in ‘The First Omen’</p>

Who would have thought a prequel to The Omen would be so brilliant?

<p>Kid (Patel) is the philosopher-poet called reluctantly to violence in ‘Monkey Man’ </p>

Dev Patel does it all in his bloody directorial debut Monkey Man

<p>Frenemies: Indira Varma and Olivia Williams in ‘The Trouble with Jessica’</p>

The British farce The Trouble with Jessica mocks wealth with zeal

<p>Anne Hathaway in ‘Mothers’ Instinct’ </p>

The timid Anne Hathaway melodrama Mothers’ Instinct needs more kitsch

<p>Anne Hathaway in ‘Mothers’ Instinct’ </p>

The timid Anne Hathaway melodrama Mothers’ Instinct needs more kitsch

<p>Who you gonna call?: Ernie Hudson and Bill Murray in ‘Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire’ </p>

The new Ghostbusters is a silly and scary return to franchise fun

<p>‘The most pointless sort of remake’: Conor McGregor and Jake Gyllenhaal in ‘Road House’ </p>

Road House is a dull, boringly sleaze-free remake

<p>Stephen Fry and Lena Dunham in ‘Treasure'</p>

Stephen Fry and Lena Dunham make for a fun double act in Treasure

The pair star as a father and daughter in a gentle drama about survivors of the Holocaust

Stephen Fry and Lena Dunham make for a fun double act in Treasure

The pair star as a father and daughter in a gentle drama about survivors of the Holocaust

<p>Stephen Fry and Lena Dunham in ‘Treasure'</p>

<p>Spidey sense bungling: Dakota Johnson in ‘Madame Web’</p>

The disastrous Madame Web seems embarrassed by its own existence

<p>Kingsley Ben-Adir in ‘Bob Marley: One Love’ </p>

Bob Marley: One Love is yet another watered-down celebrity biopic

<p>Lily James and Zac Efron in ‘The Iron Claw’ </p>

The Iron Claw will chill you to the bone

<p>Jonathan Glazer’s ‘The Zone of Interest’ demonstrates Hannah Arendt’s ‘banality of evil’ theory at work</p>

The Zone of Interest is a hellish spin on traditional Holocaust films

<p>Jonathan Glazer’s ‘The Zone of Interest’ demonstrates Hannah Arendt’s ‘banality of evil’ theory at work</p>

The Zone of Interest is a hellish spin on traditional Holocaust films

<p>Jeffrey Wright as a weary author and lecturer in ‘American Fiction’ </p>

American Fiction is a sharp satire on Black art and white ignorance

<p>Bryce Dallas Howard (and cat) in the spy comedy ‘Argylle’ </p>

Whether she secretly wrote it or not, Taylor Swift is all over Argylle