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The soap opera-like melodrama simultaneously asks us to take pity on his decline, partly by deploying flashbacks to a younger Willis... While these sequences aren't as nails-on-chalkboard, they hardly build a case for us to care about his fate.

Posted Nov 24, 2020

3/5

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020)

Kambole Campbell

Chadwick Boseman's presence shouldn't endure just because it's his final on-screen role, but because of how darn good he is.

Posted Nov 21, 2020

1/5

Hillbilly Elegy (2020)

It may once have seemed like an Oscar-winning proposition, but Hillbilly Elegy arrives feeling more like an ill-judged, mind-numbing exercise in Hollywoodsplaining heartland America.

Posted Nov 18, 2020

5/5

Collective (Colectiv) (2020)

A matryoshka doll of a doc, Collective keeps finding new ways to reinvent itself and knock you for six in the process.

Posted Nov 17, 2020

5/5

Mank (2020)

The last time Gary Oldman played a heavy drinker from the 1940s, he won an Oscar for it. Don't be surprised if he does it again.

Posted Nov 11, 2020

4/5

About Endlessness (Om det Oändliga) (2020)

Roy Andersson's latest has a more maudlin air to it than A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence and 2007's You, the Living - which, if you've experienced their bleak absurdity, you'll know is saying something.

Posted Nov 10, 2020

5/5

Love Child (2020)

Chris Waywell

Its great achievement is to present the faceless and grotesque within a domestic context, never allowing the simple pleasures of life to escape the shadow of statelessness and fear.

Posted Nov 10, 2020

4/5

Luxor (2020)

Andrzej Lukowski

Zeina Durra's sparse, meditative relationship drama is a bit like walking in on Before Midnight without ever meeting the younger version of Jesse and Celine.

Posted Nov 10, 2020

4/5

Hearts and Bones (2020)

David Michael Brown

...few will remain unmoved.

Posted Nov 5, 2020

2/5

The Burnt Orange Heresy (2020)

Bang is weirdly listless, and the early spark of passion between him and Debicki gets lost in a muddle of pretentious chatter that lacks the bite to sell itself as consciously self-satirising

Posted Nov 4, 2020

4/5

Mogul Mowgli (2020)

Ahmed is at his best in Zed's darkest hour, as he struggles to hold it together in a hospital cubicle. It's blistering stuff.

Posted Nov 4, 2020

4/5

The Secret Garden (2020)

It's a tale of healing that will steal your heart. Step under its canopy.

Posted Oct 27, 2020

2/5

Rebecca (2020)

The rest is a bit of a damp squib.

Posted Oct 27, 2020

2/5

Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm (2020)

Borat is hardly Borat anymore.

Posted Oct 27, 2020

4/5

Shirley (2020)

Katie McCabe

Through all the film's fictionalised, domestic delirium, Decker tells a story of female artistic power.

Posted Oct 27, 2020

Crimewave (1986)

Nicholas Royle

Despite its ambition and a Coen Brothers script credit, Raimi's second film was a disappointment after his astonishing debut The Evil Dead.

Posted Oct 16, 2020

4/5

Being a Human Person (2020)

A film about filmmaking to stand alongside Hearts of Darkness and Burden of Dreams, this portrait of one-of-a-kind Swedish director Roy Andersson offers a generous, honest, insightful and at times rather sad glimpse of the man at work.

Posted Oct 16, 2020

4/5

Charm City Kings (2020)

Tomris Laffly

The spirit of old-fashioned coming-of-age fare roars in director Angel Manuel Soto's sun-dappled Charm City Kings.

Posted Oct 14, 2020

4/5

The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)

When it all clicks, its terrific cast in full flow in the packed courtroom, it's truly stirring stuff.

Posted Oct 2, 2020

4/5

On The Rocks (2020)

Sofia Coppola's latest rumination on ennui, drifting relationships and the rarified discontent of comfortable lives may be exactly the existential crisis you need right now.

Posted Oct 2, 2020

The Hole (Dong) (2020)

Geoff Andrew

Idiosyncratic, of course, but immensely impressive.

Posted Sep 22, 2020

2.5/5

The Way I See It (2020)

From a technical perspective, there's little insight offered into how a gifted photographer actually gets the best shot. Endless asides about how awesome Obama is starts to feel a bit stalker-y

Posted Sep 16, 2020

4/5

Gaza Mon Amour (2020)

Never taking itself too seriously, but without shying away from the more troubling facets of life in Gaza, the film offers a farcical tone, mocking martial endeavour and indulging in a fun subplot.

Posted Sep 16, 2020

3.5/5

Penguin Bloom (2020)

You'd be forgiven for fearing that their symbiotic recovery process might be a little too schmaltzy. But it's a credit to Watts's performance and Ivin's understated direction that this woozy vision of emotional and physical healing sings.

Posted Sep 16, 2020

5/5

Limbo (2020)

The film thrusts us into this forgotten, snow-lashed corner of the world where a gaggle of lost souls are dumped, awaiting visas. The oddities of islander life are as bemusing to these new arrivals as they are in turn to the largely friendly locals.

Posted Sep 16, 2020

4/5

One Night in Miami (2020)

Regina King's impressive directorial feature debut is a searing take on American race relations adapted by Kemp Powers from his celebrated stage play. It packs an almighty punch.

Posted Sep 14, 2020

5/5

Rocks (2020)

This tough but hopeful London coming-of-age story will fill your heart.

Posted Sep 14, 2020

Merrily We Go to Hell (1932)

Paul Taylor

A curious but highly entertaining hybrid.

Posted Sep 7, 2020

5/5

Lookin' to Get Out (1982)

Keith Uhlich

Despite its overall lightheartedness, it now seems like one of [Hal Ashby]'s major works.

Posted Sep 6, 2020

3/5

Mulan (2020)

Talking animals and slapstick silliness are very much out and stiff-lipped themes of family, duty and honour are in.

Posted Sep 5, 2020

2/5

The New Mutants (2020)

It finally arrives more than two years after its original planned release date and at times it's hard not to stifle the unkind thought: 'Why so soon?'

Posted Sep 5, 2020

5/5

I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020)

Charlie Kaufman is pushing again at the boundaries of what a screen story can achieve.

Posted Sep 5, 2020

The Woman on Pier 13 (I Married a Communist) (1949)

Tom Milne

The sterling cast can make no headway against cartoon characters, a fatuous script that defies belief, and an enveloping sense of hysteria.

Posted Sep 2, 2020

3/5

Matthias & Maxime (2019)

If the overall effect is a little basic and under-worked, this is still a heartfelt, honest film.

Posted Aug 31, 2020

4/5

Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (2020)

Depicting the final day of a hangdog hangout called the Roaring 20's, located well off of the plastic fantastic glitz of the Las Vegas strip, the film makes you wonder if gentrification is even the right term for whatever is going on here.

Posted Aug 25, 2020

4/5

No Hard Feelings (Futur Drei) (2020)

Eschewing the usual coming-out tropes - his parents accept his outing pretty smoothly, and homophobic push back from Amon's mates is kept to a bare minimum - this dance music-doused reverie thrums to the beat of punch-drunk love

Posted Aug 25, 2020

5/5

Dark City Beneath the Beat (2020)

TT is an adept filmmaker with a keen eye and ear for what makes music and the souls behind it sing, and she navigates entangled strands like a seasoned veteran.

Posted Aug 25, 2020

4/5

She Dies Tomorrow (2020)

If you get an electric thrill from a wholly unpredictable rollercoaster that wickedly refuses to conform, then you're in for one hell of a treat with She Dies Tomorrow.

Posted Aug 25, 2020

4/5

Relic (2020)

ans of The Shining and Hereditary will appreciate Relic's fusion of fraught family drama with haunted house creeper that hinges on powerful performances by Emily Mortimer, Robyn Nevin and Bella Heathcote.

Posted Aug 25, 2020

Salon Mexico (Mujer Mala) (1949)

Geoff Andrew

Despite the hackneyed plotting, however, Gabriel Figueroa's noir photography and the splendidly glamorous seediness of the nightclub scenes make for passable entertainment.

Posted Aug 25, 2020

3/5

Tenet (2020)

After five months stuck in front of the small screen, maybe being a little overwhelmed is no bad thing. But it's hard to escape the sense that less might have been more.

Posted Aug 21, 2020

4/5

Coup 53 (2020)

Watching this thrilling, energetic doc feels like taking a swim in John le Carré's brain.

Posted Aug 18, 2020

4/5

Boys State (2020)

The sight of a thousand frat boys chewing over women's reproductive rights is not going to be for everyone, but there are some genuinely inspiring moments among the discord.

Posted Aug 14, 2020

3/5

National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985)

Time Out Staff

Overall, it's not quite funny or memorable enough.

Posted Aug 13, 2020

4/5

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)

Time Out Staff

Sure, it's crude, episodic and half the jokes don't work, but 'Christmas Vacation' may be the only modern Christmas comedy which really stands up to repeat viewings.

Posted Aug 12, 2020

3/5

Koko-di Koko-da (2020)

Trevor Johnston

Writer-director Johannes Nyholm is keener on unsettling suggestion than outright gore, as terrifying events rewind and repeat like a weird fusion of Groundhog Day and Funny Games.

Posted Aug 11, 2020

3/5

Creem: America's Only Rock 'N' Roll Magazine (2020)

Zach Long

Afforded insider access, Creem takes the opportunity to burnish the magazine's contribution to music journalism and rock 'n' roll culture.

Posted Aug 11, 2020

4/5

The Guardians (Les Gardiennes) (2018)

Full of the sleepy rhythms of rural life, this beautiful-looking French drama has a powerful story of emancipation stitched into its period garb.

Posted Aug 4, 2020

3/5

Dragged Across Concrete (2019)