‘Occupied City’ review: Steve McQueen’s documentary feature debut is an ambitious, if overlong, account of occupied Amsterdam | Cannes
Steve McQueen is back with his first film since Small Axe, part of his extremely ambitious 5-film anthology series. His documentary feature debut Occupied City,... Read More
Ben Rolph
Ben is a film and television journalist, who is based out of London, United Kingdom. As the Senior film critic at DiscussingFilm, Ben regularly writes reviews, features, interviews and attends film festivals. Also, Ben runs the DiscussingFilm Critic Awards that have been running since 2019 and is a Tomatometer-approved critic.
‘Monster’ review: Hirokazu Kore-eda’s return to Japan is a nuanced morality tale | Cannes
Monster marks the seventh in-competition film at Cannes for Hirokazu Kore-eda, who directed last year’s tender Korean film Broker. Back in his native Japan, Kore-eda... Read More
Star Wars Celebration 2023 Film highlights: Daisy Ridley returns, a new Jedi film rises
Three new Star Wars films were announced at Star Wars Celebration Europe IV last week, on Friday. This news that was welcomed by attendees after... Read More
Star Wars Celebration 2023 TV highlights: ‘Andor,’ ‘The Mandalorian, ‘The Acolyte’ ‘Skeleton Crew’ and ‘Ahsoka’
Star Wars Celebration Europe IV got off to an exciting start as fans flooded the halls of London’s ExCel Exhibition Centre this morning. Up at... Read More
‘Suzume’ review: Makoto Shinkai’s latest anime masterpiece is a jaw-dropping epic | Berlinale
If you follow the career of Makato Shinkai, you know he is renowned world-wide for his anime films, Your Name and Weathering With You being... Read More
‘Roter Himmel (Afire)’ review: Paula Beer is on fire in Christian Petzold’s tragicomic climate crisis allegory | Berlinale
Berlin Film Festival favourite Christian Petzold is back in competition with his latest film, Roter Himmel, titled Afire in English. Thomas Shubert stars alongside long-time... Read More
‘Disco Boy’ review: Franz Rogowski enchants in Giacomo Abbruzzese’s daring, dreamlike debut feature | Berlinale
Disco Boy is both equal parts mysterious and beguiling, as director Giacomo Abbruzzese guides the audience on a harrowing, yet intimate and sometimes dream-like journey.... Read More
‘Golda’ review: An impressive Helen Mirren can’t save one-sided legacy biopic embedded with a fear of Meir | Berlinale
Israeli director Guy Nattiv’s latest film is a biopic about the first and only female prime minister of Israel. Helen Mirren is nearly unrecognisable as... Read More
‘Inside’ review: Art thief Willem Dafoe gets locked up by human isolation in COVID-allegorical psychological drama | Berlinale
Vasilis Katsoupis’s debut feature is a claustrophobic psychological drama that features an unbridled Willem Dafoe performance. The Berlinale is the perfect debut platform for a... Read More
‘Femme’ review: George MacKay is frightening as a hyper-masculine thug in this daring London-set neo-noir | Berlinale
Femme is a neo-noir-inspired queer revenge thriller that stars British actors Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and George MacKay. Writer-directors Sam H. Freeman and Ng Choon Ping show... Read More
Seattle Film Critics Society (SFCS) Nominations: ‘Sinners’ Leads with Record-Tying 14 
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Critics Choice Awards TV Nominations: ‘Adolescence’ Leads, Followed by ‘Nobody Wants This’ 
Michigan Movie Critics Guild Nominations: ‘One Battle After Another’ Leads with 12