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Here is a determinedly old-fashioned drama, verbose and elaborate but also forthright and watchable in its way. It is a Stoppardian what-if meeting, imagining a bruising encounter between two celebrated historical figures who could, theo...

R. Mitchum, to the femme fatale while framing the villain: When your teeth stop chattering, you get Ortega on the phone ... R. Mitchum, alla protagonista femminile mentre tiene sotto tiro il cattivo: Quando i denti finiranno di batt...

Notes on this Fall's picks Very interesting biopic of a lesser-known character, more famous for his 'deadly toy' than his biography, which is instead full of strange facts. Who would say that the father of the atomic bomb was a communist...

Martin Scorsese’s western true-crime thriller is about the US’s Osage murders of the early 1920s … Scorsese crafts an epic of creeping, existential horror about the birth of the American century, a macabre tale of quasi-genocidal serial ...

Review Legendary moustachioed Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot, played by Branagh, is back for the third time. This time Branagh adapts Christie’s late novel Hallowe’en Party, moving the setting to a crepuscular Venice. The timeline follows...

a documentary essay on faking history through cinema: the grisly founding myth of fascism  Watching a work by British film critic and historian Mark Cousins is actually like going to a university class: his movies are called ‘docume...

meta-whodunit more parody than homage: a mousetrap for moviegoers? In 1953 London, Agatha Christie's play The Mousetrap celebrates its 100th performance, and the sleazy American director Leo Köpernick attempts to convince ...

Sorry Mr P. Bradshaw, but The Irishman is definitively not Martin Scorsese's finest film for 30 years. It is a kind of Goodfellas part 2, same narrative technique, use of soundtrack, voice-over, multiple timeline narration and flashbacks...

Post Chandler classical noir revisited, with a protagonist with an obsessive-compulsive syndrome that makes him look like a Dustin Hoffman character of the 60s. There is indeed a 60s feeling, of ideological revisitation, mixed with the c...

Acclaimed writer and director Rian Johnson (Brick, Looper, Star Wars: The Last Jedi) pays tribute to mystery mastermind Agatha Christie in KNIVES OUT, a fun, modern-day murder mystery where everyone is a suspect. When renowned crime nove...