Screen Rats

I n 1967, Bonnie and Clyde lit the fuse for a Hollywood revolution, confounding the critical establishment, attracting droves of wide-eyed audiences who’d never seen a…

C opious amounts of blood, heated exchanges, a dramatic close call and a well-intentioned yet often clueless male partner are the standard elements of a birth scene in…

T he new romance-cum-road-movie Bones & All represents a significant plank in the evolving oeuvre of Luca Guadagnino , both as the Italian filmmaker’s daring effor…

L ike Green Book, Peter Farrelly’s The Greatest Beer Run Ever is based on a true friendship, centring on John “Chickie” Donohue (Zac Efron) of uptown Manhattan, who ov…

T hree Finnish girls on the cusp of young adulthood have their lives intersect over three consecutive Fridays. Dividing a film about contemporary girlhood in this way …

A t a secluded manor house, an avant-garde sonic catering collective begin a new residency at the behest of prim benefactor Jan Stevens ( Gwendoline Christie ). This u…

G oing into this year’s Toronto International Film Festival – the first in three years to be held primarily in-person – Weird: The Al Yankovic Story was the film that …

I t feels like every other scary movie these days eventually comes around to being About Trauma , but Parker Finn’s debut feature Smile is the only one that really mea…

W ith its surreal sketches, risqué cultural commentary and cheerily low productions values, Eurotrash was the late-night talkshow du jour in the 1990s, pulling in a …

W hen you’re a film critic, people always ask, “What is your favourite film?”, and ever since 2013 I answer very quickly and easily: Don Hertzfeldt’s It’s Such A Beaut…

B eing a teenage girl is never easy, and while the current crop of 14-year-olds might have to contend with TikTok and homework, spare a thought for the young women of …

W ith the digital era breeding countless cases of impressionable boys falling down the rabbit hole of radicalisation at the hands of the Joe Rogans, Jordan Petersons, …

W hen Marilyn Monroe died on 4 August, 1962, her legacy was writ in water. The bulk of her estate passed to her beloved acting coach Lee Strasberg who passed soon afte…

“G uests are aways welcome in our town,” police chief Giuseppe (Claudio Bigagli) tells Anna (Agnieszka Żulewska) some way into Aga Woszczyńska’s Silent Land (Cicha Zie…

T he State Funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II screened at 130 Vue and Curzon cinemas across the UK, categorised as a 300-minute documentary. The posthumous inte…

W hen someone goes on a lovely vacation with their family in a film directed by M. Night Shyamalan , it can mean only certain doom. Just last summer, he turned an afte…

A ctor Antonia Campbell-Hughes’ writing and directorial debut presents an ambitious portrait of male emotional repression and the unsettling ways those emotions can su…

T he holiday resort has proven to be an extremely reliable source of inspiration for filmmakers who seek to explore family dynamics in a pressure cooker environment, e…

I f the future’s going to be a dystopia, it won’t be all doom and gloom — barring some major alteration in the laws of nature, for instance, the standard forecast of r…