The Hand of God review: Deeply personal but underwhelming

December 16, 2021 | James R

Paolo Sorrentino’s deeply personal tale of family, love and football is a underwhelming, meandering affair.Read More

VOD film review: Loro

April 19, 2019 | Anton Bitel

Party politics abound in Paolo Sorrentino’s imaginative portrait of Sergio Berlusconi as an ageing, empty salesman-cum-seducer.Read More

First look UK TV review: The Young Pope

October 26, 2016 | Anton Bitel

“Ever since I was little I’ve learnt to confound people’s ideas of what’s going on in my head”, confides Lenny Belardo (Jude Law) some way into the first episode of The Young Pope, before adding, “I’m also intransigent, irritable, vindictive … Read More

The Young Pope: First-look extended trailer

September 3, 2016 | James R

The Young Pope premieres its first two episodes tonight at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival – and Sky has released an extended trailer to give us a further look at the show.

Directed by Paolo Sorrentino and starring Jude … Read More

VOD film review: Youth

May 25, 2016 | James R

A witty and often warm meditation on ageing and death.Read More

VOD film review: The Great Beauty

January 15, 2014 | James R

Paolo Sorrentino’s beautiful satire is a swooning, scathing portrait of a city you can fall in love with, again and again.Read More