Film Review
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
Belfast boy
Christopher Silvester reviews two semi-autobiographical movies: Oscar-contender Belfast and arthouse The Souvenir
Eternally complicit, hell-fired thugs
Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast transcends the identity strait jacket
Awful states
Two political thrillers reveal the intimate cruelties of life under dictatorship
Forgotten films
Streaming services contain a wealth of overlooked foreign-language war stories
Red pill, blue pill
Is The Matrix best judged as cinema or cultural phenomenon?
Victim at sixty
How much has really changed in the film industry since the Dirk Bogarde film “came out”?
Do our leaders understand the power grid at all?
It seems as if basic facts are being completely ignored
Bitter progress
How English towns developed post-war — not always for the better
When America ignored a slaughter
Whatever America’s flaws, its absence from the global stage leaves a space quickly filled by far more malevolent actors
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
Oxford elects
Meet the denizens of Oxford’s disenchanted garden currently competing for the university’s top sinecure
The contested legacy of “Rocky Horror”
How should we interpret a film that is much more than a light-hearted camp classic?
Tory Utopias
1940s Conservatism was seething with creativity and optimism
Non-euclidean Toryism
The Conservative Party appears somewhat lost
Junk food? More like junk statistics
New claims about the costs of obesity are wildly exaggerated
The dangerous fallacy of “self-deterrence”
The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
