1917: more fiction than fact - film review
1917 fails to do justice to the reality of the times and for the characters in it, says John Westmoreland
- Written by John Westmoreland
- Category: Film Review
Little Women - film review
Little Women is a successful film adaptation but haste and gloss obscure many of the central and distinctive elements of Alcott’s original story
- Written by Katherine Connelly
- Category: Film Review
Gold Digger - TV review
The oppression of family and class unite in this taboo-busting drama, writes Sofie Mason
- Written by Sofie Mason
- Category: Film Review
Sorry We Missed You: essential viewing in a Britain broken by capitalism
Steve Jack reviews the latest film from the self-effacing firebrand and king of social realism, Ken Loach
- Written by Steve Jack
- Category: Film Review
Official Secrets review: how Bush and Blair lied their way to war with Iraq
Official Secrets shows the extent of the lies in the drive to war with Iraq and leaves the viewer asking how on earth Blair got away with it, writes Shabbir Lakha
- Written by Shabbir Lakha
- Category: Film Review
Rolling Thunder Revue: a Bob Dylan story by Martin Scorsese
Scorsese's new documentary shows Dylan grasping at the truth of an America that was figuring out what it wanted to be
- Written by Martin Hall
- Category: Film Review
Rosa Luxemburg, von Trotta's 1986 film, receives digital restoration - review
In this moving biopic, Rosa Luxemburg emerges as a vibrant, sensual, intellectually brilliant, morally and physically courageous woman, whose legacy proves timeless, writes Tom Lock Griffiths
- Written by Tom Griffiths
- Category: Film Review
Peterloo: an 'anti-period drama'
Peterloo presents our history vividly, finds David McAllister. The result is a film that is both timely and historically accurate
- Written by David McAllister
- Category: Film Review
It happened here - film review
Brownlow and Mollo's alternative vision of Nazi-led Britain in the 1940s resonates powerfully today, Tom Griffiths finds
- Written by Tom Griffiths
- Category: Film Review
The Young Karl Marx - film review
This portrait of the most important thinker of the modern age shows a man who was much much more than the popular caricature of a grey beard
- Written by Sean Ledwith
- Category: Film Review
Black Panther: from Huey Newton to Wakanda - film review
Black Panther is a landmark film for representation and presentation, but the politics ignores structural issues of class and race, argues Shabbir Lakha
- Written by Shabbir Lakha
- Category: Film Review
Darkest Hour - film review
Darkest Hour offers some truths on ruling class contradictions, but retells the myth that the people were fighting for Empire, argues Chris Bambery
- Written by Chris Bambery
- Category: Film Review