Film Review
Reboot camp
In the desperate hunt for stories, adaptations are now all-dominant
Violent delights
It’s 30 years since Pulp Fiction hit cinemas, and what a time it was to be young
This England
We should celebrate the glorious wartime cinematic masterpiece that Churchill wanted to ban
Long story short
Movie length seems to have become a way for directors to tell us what serious people they are
Ghostbusted
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is heroically pointless
War destroys everything
Alex Garland’s Civil War is filled with terror and horror
A sharp satire perfect for Critic readers
We should be giving copies of this magazine away at every screening
Saltburn and the significance of sound
Why has Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s “Murder on the Dancefloor” caught the world’s attention again?
Row, row, row your boat
“The Boys On The Boat” is wholesome but unconvincing
Returning affairs
The Goldfinger is an action thriller of the mind
Counting Covid costs
We need a broad perspective of Britain’s pandemic failures
Real pond life
There is a simple way to foster biodiversity
The spy who came in from the coast
Defector Natalie Elphicke leaves the Circus to join the pinkos
What future for Winchester Cathedral Choir?
The choral tradition in the cathedral must be enlivened rather than diluted
Jeremy Clarkson touches grass
How a cocky petrolhead found his soul
Here be flagons
The temperance campaigners realised that a picture can achieve more than a thousand words of argument
Five rules for governing
Use your power, bring back politics, extend your wings, rebuild your base — and govern in poetry
Double Double
A man motivated by the pinnacle or nothing at all
Is Badenoch ready?
The stand-out Conservative looks less convincing with each interview
Christians are still being persecuted in Egypt
We should stand in defence of a beleaguered minority
