Bharti, Paresh, Harminder and Maz never stopped missing the country they were born in, but they made a new home in Britain, and they made Britain better: it would be hard, for example, to calculate the size of the debt we owe Bharti for her 40 years as a social worker safeguarding children in care. Every minute of Escaping Idi Amin contains an urgent lesson to learn.” Jack Seale Summed up in a sentence James Nelson-Joyce returns in this terrifically acted, high-stakes crime drama in Liverpool – and it’s as lovable as it is bloody. What our reviewer said “We can expect more of the following: convoluted drug deals conducted over congealing ragu; shouting; tiny-skulled henchmen with chests of astonishing bulbosity, as if someone had squeezed their legs like tubes of toothpaste and all the meat had been forced up to their armpits; beards.” Sarah Dempster Summed up in a sentence The star’s friends and family celebrate his life – and give respectful insight into his troubles as well as his career triumphs.
What our reviewer said “It remains at heart a simple, sad story. But this unexpectedly candid, thoughtful, genuinely intimate film gives it nuance and depth, and a voice to wider sorrows – including what a shame it was that Perry could not enjoy his talent or appreciate the joy it gave as fully as his audiences always did.” Lucy Mangan Further reading The hidden life of Matthew Perry: ‘He would say: I need to stop and get help’ Summed up in a sentence The French super-thief returns for a fourth series; the budget is bigger, the stakes are higher and there are lots of Houdini-style twists and thrills to be had. What our reviewer said “Omar Sy, whose performance is magnetic as always, has graduated to co-showrunner and wants to lean harder into the show’s “superhero”-like qualities.
These include tech and set pieces which undoubtedly add a sprinkling of Marvel.” Micha Frazer-Carroll Further reading Lupin’s Omar Sy: ‘We wanted to show what the French are capable of’ Summed up in a sentence Disquieting drama with Léa Seydoux as a wife and mother whose life unravels when police arrive to investigate her husband. What our reviewer said “This is a bleak, pessimistic film with two excellent lead performances.” Peter Bradshaw Summed up in a sentence Supercool outlaw women go shoplifting in Boots Riley’s frantic caper in which Demi Moore’s haute-couture maven attracts the attention of a gang of Robin Hood style clothes robbers. What our reviewer said “An entertaining, if very exhausting fantasy-caper about the fashion biz, a madcap mile-a-minute melee of unadulterated ker-aziness.
You might need a couple of ibuprofen and a lie down afterwards.” Peter Bradshaw Further reading Boots Riley: ‘Theft is not outside of capitalism, it’s what it was built on’ Summed up in a sentence Intriguing folk-horror romance with Olivia Colman as a depressed and bullied fisher who gets the answer to her dreams: an Alexander Skarsgård made of wicker. What our reviewer said “It occupies a strange and intriguing Venn-diagram overlap between macabre horror and sentimentality. Yet devotees of bucolic British screen-scariness will note that it is, after all, about a wicker man.” Peter Bradshaw Further reading ‘I saw the script and went: oooh!’ Olivia Colman and Alexander Skårsgard on their steamy folk-horror movie Wicker Summed up in a sentence Backstory of modest music industry veteran Asher who started out as one half of pop duo Peter and Gordon, and went on to produce acts such as James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt.
What our reviewer said “Asher by any standards carved an amazing path through it all, making the absolute most of being in the right place at the right time.” Andrew Pulver Summed up in a sentence Ken Russell’s 1971 possessed-nuns tale stars Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave giving the performances of their lives in a film that highlights the violence of power. What our reviewer said “It comes from an era when movies, playing in high-street cinemas, still had the power to shock, to position that shock in the polite cultural mainstream and to compel serious discussion about whether that shock – or, conversely, a ban – was justified.” Peter Bradshaw Summed up in a sentence The extraordinary posthumous memoir of a Dutch poet. What our reviewer said “Marsman’s language is so beautiful, and her textual references so original: she cites Leopardi, Pasolini, Alanis Morissette, Robert Musil, Spinoza, Euripides, Wittgenstein and William James.” Summed up in a sentence The poet laureate takes on the ancient Mesopotamian epic about the adventures of a demigod king.
What our reviewer said “Armitage’s tactile, visceral version is a tour de force, combining careful scholarship with poetic verve and deft linguistic meldings.” Summed up in a sentence Long thought untranslatable, a portrait of a breakdown by the man Karl Ove Knausgård considers Norway’s best living writer. What our reviewer said “This is a universal story of modernity and its discontents, but Lund is at pains to give it a specifically Norwegian dimension.” Summed up in a sentence The definitive biography of Seinfeld creator Larry David. What our reviewer said “In 1992, just before it became the biggest show in America, he told friends, ‘Honestly, I would rather spend a year in prison than do another season of Seinfeld.
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