Film Review
Sound of a free press?
How did a film wishing to highlight the sexual exploitation of children become a culture war?
The end of the world
Oppenheimer is Christopher Nolan’s best and most important film
Missing a slam dunk
Cleopatra is not a terrible movie, but this failed Hollywood history is
The beauty and the bomb
Barbenheimer is a true cinematic event
The wild north
On screen savage battles, middle-aged villains, decline and disease are reviewed by Robert Hutton
Into thin Air
A pro-capitalist cinematic curiosity
The human subject
Tár is a film of moving ambiguities
Animation grows up
Jibaro is an artistic triumph
It’s grim up north
Is the Northman alt-right propaganda? Perhaps, but it’s not the only one
Modern-day Ealing comedy
A quintessentially English spirit of wry rebellion lives on in two new films
Don’t shoot the piano man
A silent film pianist was blacklisted from the BFI for supporting J.K. Rowling
Murders for October
Tales from the gothic to the macabre
The town besieged
During the English Civil War, towns were fiercely divided
Defend the arts … before it’s too late
It will take more than a new government and a bonfire of policy documents to put things right
Killing with kindness
Cull of the Wild: Killing in the Name of Conservation. By Hugh Warwick
From the monstrous to the grotesque
Hitler’s cult of charismatic leadership is indistinguishable from the ideology of National Socialism
Fears for tiers
The British state must be impartial in the face of different outbreaks of criminality
Twitter’s doxxing problem
Social media “outings” expose serious lapses in legality and digital morality
Israel off the leash
For Benjamin Netanyahu, continuing the war is a matter of political survival, and he goes to America to raise support, not to listen to calls for peace
The curious incident of the dog and the tribunal
A welcome win for sanity on gender, freedom and the workplace
Ozi the Orangutan is no Winnie-the-Pooh
A misguided attack on palm oil production is enough to make you facepalm
