Jason Solomons
24 April 2024
Return of Marco Bellocchio, the last maestro
His great contemporaries are gone, but the director is still shaking his fists – and miraculously, his films are getting even better
Read the full article08 April 2024
‘We have to remember she was a young girl’ – Eddie Marsan on the new Amy Winehouse film
The actor – reliably excellent as the singer’s father, Mitch, in Back to Black – on addiction, social media rage and antisemitism
Read the full article13 March 2024
Goals, glory and gaslighting: the forgotten World Cup
The inaugural Women’s World Cup held in Mexico in 1971 was a tournament of joy. But before long, its participants were ridiculed and dismissed
Read the full article06 March 2024
Prejudice is back in fashion
John Galliano and the shadow of antisemitism
Read the full article14 February 2024
Cymande: The best band you never heard
After 40 years on hiatus, south London’s Cymande are stars of a superb biopic and out on a European tour
Read the full article07 February 2024
Living in the city of ghosts
A long (and brilliant) article about Steve McQueen’s long (and brilliant) documentary about Amsterdam under the Nazis, Occupied City
Read the full article17 January 2024
The madness in Werner Herzog's method
Unravelling the secrets of the German film-maker
Read the full article10 January 2024
Turn and face the strange: Poor Things rides Greece’s weird wave
Why Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest could be the weirdest Oscar-winner ever
Read the full article03 January 2024
Here come the remakes
2024 in film is set to be dominated by reboots. There's not much new under the sun
Read the full article20 December 2023
The Three Musketeers: the père of all blockbusters
Dumas’s swashbuckling classic has been filmed 50 times – but the French haven’t tried since the 1960s. Until now...
Read the full article20 December 2023
The year in film: “Barbenheimer” and the demise of superheroes
2023 went down as the year the superhero movie died. The genre has spun its last web and assembled its last avenger
Read the full article13 December 2023
Moving pictures... a story of sex and cabbages
A husband-and-wife team filmed a classic Polish novel, then made another film from paintings of it. Why?
Read the full article06 December 2023
The wonders of Wenders: the restless film-maker returns
Wim Wenders is back with two very different films... and harsh words for Brexit
Read the full article17 November 2023
Lots of hat but little heart in Ridley Scott’s Napoleon
This Joaquin Phoenix epic fails to nail its big idea, or the motivation of its subject
Read the full article15 November 2023
The great divide by the seaside
A German’s documentary about an end-of-the-pier show in Norfolk might be the best movie yet about Brexit
Read the full article08 November 2023
Legends of a fall: Justine Triet's courtroom victory
Why twisty French thriller Anatomy of a Fall is tipped to win the Best Picture Oscar
Read the full article01 November 2023
On the Adamant: a ship called dignity
The award-winning story of how a psychiatric facility on a River Seine barge helps to keep its patients afloat
Read the full article18 October 2023
Knights to remember in a tale of quiet heroism
Amid an explosion of young British talent, Sir Anthony Hopkins brings London’s Film Festival to tears with his performance in One Life
Read the full article11 October 2023
Wild horse: finding the real Anita Pallenberg
A new documentary delves into the life of the woman who outstoned the Stones
Read the full article13 September 2023
Passages: a toxic triangle of Paris passions
Ira Sachs’ latest movie is the year’s frankest and most sensual film – a thoughtful and provocative exploration of human emotions
Read the full article06 September 2023
Time’s up for protest at the movies
Amid strikes and sexism, the Venice Film Festival plays it safe
Read the full article02 August 2023
Virginie Efira, European film’s late bloomer
A former Belgian TV star who became the toast of France, Virginie Efira is little-known here. Is it time for a breakthrough?
Read the full article26 July 2023
Irish cinema goes far beyond The Banshees of Inisherin
There’s far more to Irish cinema than the pain and cliches of Colin Farrell’s dark comedy – as a recent Galway film festival showed
Read the full article17 July 2023
Nous l'aimons: RIP Jane Birkin, a true European
The singer and actress was the Frenchest of us all, and somehow also the most British
Read the full article31 May 2023
Cannes, the festival of the usual suspects
There was much to enjoy at Cannes – but the same old players doing the same old things hints that cinema may be due a shake-up
Read the full article24 May 2023
Epic ballads to the betrayed: the films parting Cannes' grey clouds
Martin Scorsese, Steve McQueen and the late Martin Amis deliver the goods at an unexpectedly soggy Cannes Film Festival
Read the full article10 May 2023
Scaling the mountains between us
A meditative masterpiece explores rediscovered friendships and the art of finding simpler ways through our complex world
Read the full article19 April 2023
A new French connection: The Night of the 12th keeps it real
How an unstarry, violent story of crime and redemption with echoes of the classic policiers cleaned up at France’s Oscars
Read the full article13 April 2023
Three colours of cinema: A masterpiece that shines brighter than ever
Thirty years on, the key to the enduring legacy of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Three Colours trilogy is creativity and love
Read the full article23 March 2023
The ‘French Robert Mitchum’ finding his inner Beast
Unsung Inglourious Basterds actor Denis Ménochet encounters more terror in the countryside in Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s The Beasts
Read the full article09 March 2023
Point of no return: The Cannes winner forced to flee her own country
Cannes Best Actress winner Zar Amir Ebrahimi on her exile from Iran and why her work shames the regime
Read the full article02 March 2023
Belgian beauty: A tender story of young male companionship
Lukas Dhont’s Close is an ecstatic, tear-jerking tale of adolescent friendship
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