On Cinema
Lockdown Cinema
Staying frosty in plague times
Reel hell of the Western Front
The director wanted to show things as they were – badly-led, no one wanting to fight or knowing what they were fighting for, says Christopher Silvester
Untrue story of the Kelly Gang
For a folk hero this Ned has zero contact with the ordinary Irish folk who will supposedly come to love him, says Christopher Silvester
The toughest role
The most successful modern actor-director, Clint Eastwood, rejects “the auteur crap”
Right-on cue
As usual, the Academy flagellates itself over insufficient African American Oscar contenders
Charlie’s cardboard feminists fall flat
Bad jokes, no chemisty, lame action: the snoozathon that’s not woke enough
Longing for more
Some of the greatest movies ever made were incredibly long. But is a film lasting 13 hours just too much?
The gang master
Martin Scorcese’s new Mafia movie is the culmination of a great career
Sometimes it’s best to shoot the messenger
Ordinary citizens feel a greater claim than ever before to what goes on in public institutions
Farewell, knights errant of the road
Once one of London’s most distinctive tribes, cycle messengers are a dying breed
How the right went wrong
An ill-fated leadership campaign
Reparate good times, come on!
The Critic’s Extremely Factual Guide to Slavery Reparations the UK Most Definitely Owes
The rise of suburbia
The English experiment in liminal living
Make high culture popular again
We need to face the music and embrace the highbrow
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
Getting the creeps
How should we cope with the unsettling in everyday life?
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
Liberal myths of the “good old ways”
Donald Trump’s foreign policy is not so very different from the Democrats’ imagined golden age of American leadership
Is this just fantasy?
Sir Brian May is wrong: farmers do care
