Barry Keoghan
Saltburn: A gleefully dark ride
December 23, 2023 | David FarnorLP Hartley meets The Talented Mr Ripley in Emerald Fennell’s gleefully dark social satire, which cements Barry Keoghan as an undisputed star.Read More
The Banshees of Inisherin review: A dark, funny fable
December 22, 2022 | Ivan RadfordColin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson are brilliant in Martin McDonagh’s dark fable of male friendship and senseless grudges.Read More
VOD film review: Eternals (2021)
January 12, 2022 | David FarnorThis intriguing but uneven Marvel outing struggles to balance soul and spectacle.Read More
The Green Knight review: A beautiful, bewitching trip
September 25, 2021 | David FarnorBravely bold and modern, David Lowery’s dark, handsome Arthurian epic is a bewitching trip of bravery and cowardice.Read More
Calm With Horses review: An arresting Irish noir
April 27, 2020 | Anton BitelNick Rowland’s assured feature debut is an arresting Irish noir that brings new tensions to old gangland tropes.Read More
VOD film review: American Animals
January 25, 2019 | David FarnorTrue crime meets Hollywoodised fiction in this gripping, playful anti-documentary about a cleverly stupid heist.Read More
VOD film review: The Killing of a Sacred Deer
March 11, 2018 | David FarnorHorrifying, entertaining, disturbing and funny, this dark satire is rivetingly awkward.Read More
VOD film review: Dunkirk
December 28, 2017 | David FarnorThis raw, stripped-down war film is a harrowing elegy to British lives lost – and a powerful portrayal of despair in the face of hope.Read More