Todd Field’s first film in 16 years is a fascinating but cold and talky psychologically driven character study which builds…
All Quiet On The Western Front (DE: Im Westen Nichts Neues) (Netflix) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
War movies aren’t normally my thing, so the only time I watch them is when they’re Oscar-nominated and it’s a…
Babylon ⭐⭐⭐½
Despite my soft spot for Damien Chazelle, I’ll be the first to admit that this is a rowdy and unruly…
The Swimmers (Netflix) ⭐⭐⭐
How I missed it I don’t know, but I had no idea whilst watching Sally El Hosaini’s film that it’s…
Argentina, 1985 (AR) (Amazon Prime) ⭐⭐⭐½
Another historical drama accidentally benefiting from my own ignorance in not knowing how it all turned out, there’s an additional…
RRR (India) (Netflix) ⭐⭐⭐
This box office record-breaking Indian film, re-imagining real historical figures during India’s fight for independence in the 1920s in a…
A Man Called Otto ⭐⭐⭐½
A remake of 2015’s Swedish film, A Man Called Ove, this David Magee adaptation, directed by Marc Forster, transfers the…
Till ⭐⭐⭐
Chinonye Chukwu’s film dramatization of the tragic and brutal killing of 14-year-old Emmett Till in 1955 acts predominantly as a…
Strange World (Disney+) ⭐⭐⭐½
An undeserved flop in the cinemas, perhaps as a result of the lack of a decent/coherent publicity campaign (the flatly…
Patron’s 2022 Year in Review
Let’s start with the numbers as usual. 2022 – I’ve watched 140 films: 97 on the big screen and 43…