Film reviews

This is a handy guide to the film reviews I’ve written since 2009, including theatrical releases, DVDs and movies I have seen at the BFI London Film Festival.

Most of the links below are to this blog, but those titles marked with an asterisk were originally published on the (now defunct) Sound on Sight film blog. I’m no longer linking to those reviews.

Accident (Joseph Losey)

Africa United (Debs Gardner-Paterson)

American Hustle (David O Russell)

Americano* (Mathieu Demy)

And Hope to Die (René Clément)

Anonymous (Roland Emmerich)

Another Round (Thomas Vinterberg)

Archipelago (Joanna Hogg)

The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius)

Battle of the Sexes (Valerie Faris, Jonathan Dayton)

Better This World* (Kelly Duane de la Vega and Katie Galloway)

Beyond the Pole* (David L Williams)

Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (Russ Meyer)

The Big Picture (Eric Lartigau)

The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks)

The Bird (Yves Caumon)

The Black Power Mixtape* (Göran Hugo Olsson)

Brighton Rock (Rowan Joffe)

Broken Lines (Sallie Aprahamian)

Brotherhood (Will Canon)

Biutiful (Alejandro González Iñárritu)

Call Me by Your Name (Luca Guadagnino)

Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Marielle Heller)

Carol (Todd Haynes)

César et Rosalie (Claude Sautet)

Chatroom (Hideo Nakata)

Cloclo (Forent-Emilio Siri)

The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola)

Dark Horse (Todd Solondz)

Day for Night (François Truffaut)

The Devil Rides Out (Terence Fisher)

The Diary of a Teenage Girl (Marielle Heller)

Don’t Worry about Me (David Morrissey)

The Door (Anno Saul)

Dracula Prince of Darkness (Terence Fisher)

The Duke of Burgundy (Peter Strickland)

Early One Morning* (Jean-Marc Moutout)

Easier with Practice (Kyle Patrick Alvarez)

End of Watch (David Ayer)

50/50* (Jonathan Levine)

Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool (Paul McGuigan)

Forbidden Games (René Clément)

Gainsbourg (Joann Sfar)

Goodbye, Columbus (Larry Peerce)

La Grande Illusion (Jean Renoir)

Gone Girl (David Fincher)

The Graduate (Mike Nichols)

The Halfway House (Basil Dearden)

Hell is a City (Val Guest)

High-Rise (Ben Wheatley)

Howl (Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman)

Huge (Ben Miller)

Hunky Dory* (Marc Evans)

I Am a Camera (Henry Cornelius)

I Am Love (Luca Guadagnino)

The Imposter (Bart Layton)

In a Better World (Susanne Bier)

The Iron Lady (Phyllida Lloyd)

Journey’s End (Saul Dibb)

Joy (David O Russell)

The Kid with a Bike (Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne)

The Kids are All Right (Lisa Cholodenko)

The Killer Inside Me (Michael Winterbottom)

Killing Them Softly (Andrew Dominik)

Kind Hearts and Coronets (Robert Hamer)

Last Night (Massy Tadjedin)

Like Crazy (Drake Doremus)

Little White Lies (Guillaume Canet)

The Long Hot Summer (Martin Ritt)

Loose Cannons (Ferzan Ozpetek)

Louise-Michel (Benoît Delépine and Gustave Kervern)

Love Like Poison (Katell Quillévéré)

Mademoiselle Chambon (Stéphane Brizé)

The Man in the White Suit (Alexander Mackendrick)

The Man Who Fell to Earth (Nicolas Roeg)

A Marine Story (Ned Farr)

Meek’s Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)

The Missing Person (Noah Buschel)

The Monk (Dominik Moll)

Monsieur Lazhar (Philippe Falardeau)

Murder by Decree (Bob Clark)

My Week with Marilyn (Simon Curtis)

The Navigator (Donald Crisp and Buster Keaton)

NEDS (Peter Mullan)

On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (Peter Hunt)

Oslo, August 31st* (Joachim Trier)

Our Brand is Crisis (David Gordon Green)

Out of the Ashes (Tim Albone and Lucy Martens)

Passenger Side (Matthew Bissonnette)

La Piscine (Jacques Deray)

Potiche (François Ozon)

Poupoupidou (Nobody Else But You)* (Gérald Hustache-Mathieu)

The Princess of Montpensier (Bertrand Tavernier)

Renoir (Gilles Bourdos)

The Ring (Alfred Hitchcock)

Route Irish (Ken Loach)

Rust and Bone (Jacques Audiard)

Sarah’s Key (Gilles Paquet-Brenner)

The Scarlet Blade* (John Gilling)

The Servant (Joseph Losey)

She-Monkeys  (Lisa Aschan)

The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch)

Silver Linings Playbook (David O Russell)

A Single Man (Tom Ford)

Somewhere (Sofia Coppola)

Southern District (Juan Carlos Valdivia)

Spotlight (Tom McCarthy)

Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder)

Taking Woodstock (Ang Lee)

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Martin McDonagh)

The Titfield Thunderbolt (Charles Crichton)

Tomboy theatrical review (Céline Sciamma)

Tomboy DVD review (Céline Sciamma)

Trishna (Michael Winterbottom)

The Undercover War (Nicolas Steil)

Unman, Wittering and Zigo (John Mackenzie)

Victoria (Sebastian Schipper)

Weekend (Andrew Haigh)

We Have a Pope (Nanni Moretti)

We Need to Talk about Kevin (Lynne Ramsay)

Went the Day Well? (Alberto Cavalcanti)

The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese)

Woman in a Dressing Gown (J Lee Thompson)