From ARTS May 16, 2013

Cinema reviews: The Great Gatsby, Beware of Mr Baker, The Liability

Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan in 'The Great Gatsby' ©Warner Bros

Baz Luhrmann’s hectic Fitzgerald adaptation; profile of a protean drummer; hit-man movie that misses the mark

Ray Harryhausen ©AFP From COMMENT May 11, 2013

Ray Harryhausen, film animator

Special effects designer who created the face of fantasy cinema

From left, Tye Sheridan, Jacob Lofland and Matthew McConaughey in ‘Mud’ ©Jim Bridges From ARTS May 9, 2013

Cinema reviews: Mud, Star Trek Into Darkness, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, A Hijacking and more

A captivating runaway adventure; JJ Abrams’ new Star Trek movie; Mira Nair tackles Islam and Islamism; and a Danish drama about a Somali hijacking

Carlos Areces, Raúl Arévalo and Javier Cámara in ‘I’m So Excited!’ ©Paola Ardizzoni From ARTS May 2, 2013

Cinema reviews: I’m So Excited!, Gimme the Loot, Chimpanzee and more

Pedro Almodóvar’s airborne comedy; smart young director Adam Leon’s shaggy Bronx movie; a sentimental simian documentary; and more

From left, Mark Ivanir, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christopher Walken and Catherine Keener in ‘A Late Quartet’ From ARTS Apr 4, 2013

Cinema reviews: A Late Quartet, Spring Breakers, Thursday Till Sunday and more

Classical music drama tugs at the heartstrings; deliriously violent comedy; a family journey through Chile’s changing landscapes

Vincent Cassel in ‘Trance’ ©Susie Allnutt From ARTS Mar 27, 2013

Cinema reviews: Trance, In the House, One Mile Away and more

Danny Boyle’s art-heist movie; poison-pen psychodrama from François Ozon; gang-war and gang-peace

Gustavo Jahn and Irma Brown in ‘Neighbouring Sounds’ From ARTS Mar 21, 2013

Cinema reviews: Neighbouring Sounds, Compliance, Reality and more

Brazilian director’s clever, witty first film depicts condominium life in Recife; ‘Compliance’ explores human gullibility; life of a Naples fish-stall vendor

Cosmina Stratan, centre, stars as a novice in ‘Beyond the Hills’, the latest film from Cristian Mungiu From ARTS Mar 8, 2013

Courting controversy

Award-winning director Cristian Mungiu believes that having audiences boo his latest film is a good sign

Rooney Mara and Channing Tatum in ‘Side Effects’ From ARTS Mar 7, 2013

Cinema reviews: Side Effects, Robot & Frank, Oz the Great and Powerful, and more

Steven Soderbergh’s thriller mixes paranoia and pharmaceuticals, Frank Langella forms an engaging double act with a robot, plus the prequel to a cinema classic

Richard Gere in 'Arbitrage' ©Kobal From ARTS Feb 28, 2013

Cinema reviews: Arbitrage, The Bay, Caesar Must Die and more

Richard Gere in a money-and-manslaughter thriller, Barry Levinson tackles eco-horror, plus Shakespeare in an Italian prison

From ARTS Feb 21, 2013

Cinema review: Cloud Atlas, To the Wonder, Lore and more

Wachowskis tackle David Mitchell’s jumbo novel, Malick dishes out more mysticism, war-aftermath road movie has a powerful charge

From ARTS Feb 14, 2013

Cinema review: Mea Maxima Culpa, This is 40, Side by Side and more

A damning documentary on Catholic cover-ups, Judd Apatow’s latest comedy and Keanu Reeves’ star-studded study of digital film

From ARTS Feb 7, 2013

Cinema review: Hitchcock, I Give It a Year, A Liar’s Autobiography and more

This week’s new films: ‘Hitchcock’, ‘I Give It a Year’, ‘A Liar’s Autobiography’, ‘I Wish’, ‘Warm Bodies’ and ‘No’

From ARTS Jan 31, 2013

Cinema review: Bullhead, Flight, Hyde Park on the Hudson and more

Reports on Michaël R. Roskam’s miserablist powerhouse, Robert Zemeckis’s moral-uplift mega-drama and Roger Michell’s FDR biopic

From ARTS Jan 24, 2013

Cinema review: Lincoln, Zero Dark Thirty and The Last Stand

Nigel Andrews on Steven Spielberg’s biopic, Kathryn Bigelow’s bin Laden thriller and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s return to action

From ARTS Jan 17, 2013

Django Unchained and other cinema reviews

This week’s new films: ‘Django Unchained’, ‘The Sessions’, ‘Everyday’ and ‘Ballroom Dancer’

From ARTS Jan 3, 2013

Let’s put on a show for the luvvies!

This week’s cinema releases reviewed: ‘Quartet’, ‘Hors Satan’, ‘McCullin’ and ‘Grabbers’

From ARTS Dec 27, 2012

Comfort amid the catastrophe

This week’s new film releases reviewed: ‘The Impossible’, ‘Jack Reacher’, ‘Parental Guidance’, ‘Safety Not Guaranteed’ and ‘Zaytoun’

From ARTS Dec 26, 2012

Two versions of Polanski

Soon to be celebrated at London’s BFI, the director is at his best when dissecting the darker side

From ARTS Dec 20, 2012

Afloat on an ocean of possibilities

This week’s new film releases reviewed: ‘Life of Pi’, ‘West Memphis’, ‘Pitch Perfect’, ‘Boxing Day’ and ‘Midnight’s Children’

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