Section
Reviews & Features
The verdicts and the long reads — British films old and new, weighed with a point of view (and no star tyranny).
5 pieces in this section
- 01Aftersun, and the Ache of a Remembered HolidayCharlotte Wells turns a Turkish package holiday into an act of quiet devastation — and announces a film-maker of rare emotional precision.Review ★★★★★
- 02Under the Skin at Ten: The Film That Made Scotland AlienThe eerie, formally radical film that used real Glasgow streets and stayed under the skin.Review ★★★★½
- 03The Red Shoes, RestoredPowell & Pressburger's Technicolor ballet melodrama still overwhelms — and a restoration recovers what time dimmed.Review ★★★★★
- 04The Kitchen Sink Never Emptied: From Loach to ArnoldBritish social realism, unbroken from the Free Cinema shorts through Ken Loach to Andrea Arnold.Feature
- 05In Praise of the Flea-Pit: Why the Independent Screen MattersBritain's independent and repertory cinemas — and why the small screen in a shabby room still matters.Essay