Better Man review – chimply irresistible
If you had asked me at the top end of 2024 how excited I felt about seeing a biopic of Robbie Williams directed by the bloke who made The Greatest Showman, the answer would have been a swift “Not at all”. Now, as a fairly hodawful year draws to a close, I sit here with egg on my face, owing Michael Gracey an apology, because it turns out Better More...
Nickel Boys review – a miracle of a movie
At one point in Nickel Boys, Elwood, a young Black boy in Civil Rights-era Florida, glimpses Martin Luther King Jr. in front of a supermarket and takes off, running across the middle of the street to greet him. Turner, More...
Mufasa: The Lion King review – let down by weak script and songs
“Everything the light touches” is an apt descriptor for the features, shorts and TV shows made by Barry Jenkins in collaboration with his trusty cinematographer James Laxton during the first little portion More...
National Anthem review – maintains a bold sense of hopefulness
In recent years, the classic western has undergone a period of reinvention. No longer is it the silhouette of macho masculinity framed against the American Frontier’s wide open plains; instead, updated cowboy More...
Kraven the Hunter review – put it out of its misery
In the 10 short months since I wrote my Madame Web review pondering the poisoned chalice of a superhero role in 2024, both Robert Downey Jr and Chris Evans – the pillars upon which the MCU was built – have More...
Magic and Loss: On the making of Queer
While it was I who wrote ‘Junky’, I felt that I was being written in ‘Queer’,” William S. Burroughs reflected in 1985, when his novella was finally published some 33 years after it was written. A bracing, More...
Queer review – Burroughs would be proud
The first time that lascivious raconteur William Lee (Daniel Craig) notices Eugene Allerton (Drew Starkey), he’s watching a group of men bartering over a cockfight in the street. Allerton emerges from a bar, More...
The 2024 Little White Lies Christmas Guide Guide
It’s the season for peace and goodwill to all men – and for gift-giving. We’ve put together a round-up of some of ours favourite film-related present options for the cinephile of good taste. Feel free to More...
A Complete Unknown review – drips with hollow trivia
The worst scene in the Coen brothers’ 2013 film Inside Llewyn Davis is vastly superior to the best scene in James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown, an icky, fawning screen bio of Ebbing, Minnesota’s own barrowboy-capped More...
LWLies 106: The Nickel Boys issue – Out now!
Picture the scene: a cold morning in London’s Soho. Film critics waddle towards the doors of a cinema with their gloves and coats on to waylay a sharp nip in the air. People are seated and relaxed. The lights More...
