Cannes reviews
VOD film review: The Image Book
December 2, 2018 | Martyn ConterioGodard’s latest video essay is an acquired taste, but is insightful, intriguing and always watchable.Read More
VOD film review: You Were Never Really Here
July 2, 2018 | Martyn ConterioOne of the most hellacious anti-genre genre flicks in quite some time. Read More
Cannes 2018 Reviews: Everybody Knows, Ash Is Purest White, The House That Jack Built, The Dead and the Others, The Gentle Indifference of the World
May 18, 2018 | Martyn ConterioThe 71st Cannes Film Festival may have lacked the big guns of previous years, but the official selection has been consistently strong, whether In Competition, the Un Certain Regard sidebar or Out of Competition. With Netflix trying to snap up … Read More
Netflix UK film review: The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
October 8, 2017 | Martyn ConterioNoah Baumbach dissects complex family dynamics with typical charm and humour.Read More
VOD film review: The Handmaiden
August 7, 2017 | Martyn ConterioPark Chan-wook’s deliciously directed mystery romance is a stylish, surprising and intoxicating work of art.Read More
Netflix UK film review: Okja
June 25, 2017 | Martyn ConterioBong Joon-ho’s creature feature is a delightful and engaging adventure.Read More
Cannes 2017 reviews round-up: Good Time, The Beguiled, Happy End, How to Talk to Girls at Parties, The Double Lover
May 27, 2017 | Martyn ConterioIn Cannes’ 70th year, the world’s pre-eminent film festival has an official selection of hugely promising titles – the kind of titles that streaming services Netflix, Amazon and MUBI will be bidding fiercely to acquire for their own content roster. … Read More
Cannes 2017 reviews round-up: Ismael’s Ghosts, Loveless, A Prayer Before Dawn, April’s Daughter, Redoubtable
May 24, 2017 | Martyn ConterioIn Cannes’ 70th year, the world’s pre-eminent film festival has an official selection of hugely promising titles – the kind of titles that streaming services Netflix, Amazon and MUBI will be bidding fiercely to acquire for their own content roster. … Read More
VOD film review: Wonderstruck
May 18, 2017 | Martyn ConterioA charming cinematic rhapsody by a director at the top of his game.Read More
VOD film review: Paterson
March 25, 2017 | Simon KinnearJarmusch’s hymn to finding something you love, and loving it, is brilliant, idiosyncratic cinema.Read More