‘The Theory of Everything’ Review: Timm Kroeger’s Sophomore Feature is a Pulpy Adventure, as Impressive as it is Baffling | Venice
You can tell that Timm Kroeger was a cinematographer before he was a director. The German filmmaker’s second feature, following 2014’s well-regarded The Council of... Read More
Adam Solomons
Adam Solomons is a critic and journalist who currently combines his love for films with a News Reporter role at British tabloid The Daily Star. A Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic with bylines at Sight & Sound and The Quietus, Adam has also been a political journalist. His favourite movie is Toy Story 2.
‘The Killer’ Review: Stop Me If You Think You’ve Heard This One Before | Venice
That The Killer is David Fincher’s first film with a runtime under two hours in more than twenty years is a telling sign of its... Read More
‘The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar’ Review: Wes Anderson’s First of Four New Adaptations of Roald Dahl Shorts Heralds a New Era for the Filmmaker | Venice
The first of four Roald Dahl short stories adapted by Wes Anderson as part of Netflix’s reported half-a-billion-dollar deal with the Dahl Estate, The Wonderful... Read More
‘Ferrari’ Review: Michael Mann’s Return is a Propulsive, Poignant Look at a Legend’s Most Turbulent Period | Venice
Ferrari is Modena, and Modena is Ferrari. The small city in Northern Italy has a medieval centre with red roofs and a white clock tower... Read More
‘Blonde’ cinematographer Chayse Irvin on deconstructing Marilyn Monroe, art vs. consumption and having to say no to Beyoncé
The number of people who have said “no” to Beyoncé can probably be counted on two hands, maybe one. Chayse Irvin is one of them.... Read More
‘The Kiev Trial’ review: Sergei Loznitsa’s latest dip into the archives explores the banality of Nazi evil in Ukraine [B-] | Venice
On Venice’s Lido island, documentarian Sergei Loznitsa was greeted like an exiled novelist, or an ex-political prisoner finally able to meet his adoring fans. Yet... Read More
‘Blonde’ review: Ana de Armas plays Marilyn Monroe the celebrity in Andrew Dominik’s incendiary but sometimes frustratingly conventional biopic [B] | Venice Film Festival
In a lively interview with Sight & Sound to mark the release of Blonde, director Andrew Dominik describes his mission as recreating the “images” of... Read More
‘Dead for a Dollar’ review: Walter Hill’s nostalgic Western is old-fashioned in good ways and bad [B] | Venice Film Festival
An entertaining B-movie rather than a serious, self-sufficient drama, Western schlockfest Dead for a Dollar justifies its nostalgic existence on the grounds that it allows... Read More
‘The Eternal Daughter’ review: Tilda Swinton shines in Joanna Hogg’s painful, personal drama [A] | Venice Film Festival
Telling someone they are being “very British” is almost never meant as a compliment. The cursed phrase connotes repression, quiet, politeness over honesty, a love... Read More
‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ review: Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell fight a personal Irish Civil War in Martin McDonagh’s green and black comedy [B+] | Venice Film Festival
Pádraic (Colin Farrell) is a happy-go-lucky guy. He walks fictional Irish island Inisherin, in April 1923, as if he gets on with everyone, and convinces... Read More
At 30, ‘Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit’ Remains My Bible for Finding Self-Confidence [Retrospective] 
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