Adam Nayman
Freelance Writer at Freelance
Contributing Editor at Cinema Scope
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4 days ago |
bfi.org.uk | Henry Miller |Chris Shields |Mark Kermode |Adam Nayman
Forget about the Queen, James Bond, and the NHS: the centrepiece of Danny Boyle’s opening ceremony for the 2012 Olympics was the industrial revolution. 28 Years Later is a zombie film, just about, but it is far more so a vision of Britain in a future Dark Age that resembles the distant past, not only pre-industrial but practically pre-English, a lawless land of warring tribes.
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1 week ago |
bfi.org.uk | Chris Shields |Mark Kermode |Adam Nayman
Red Path confronts viewers with the kind of shocking political violence many would rather ignore. Based on a true story, Tunisian theatre and film director Lotfi Achour’s relentlessly grim drama follows a young Tunisian shepherd named Nizar who is beheaded by the mujahideen when he and his younger cousin Achraf (Ali Helali) go in search of a water source on occupied land.
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1 week ago |
bfi.org.uk | Mark Kermode |Adam Nayman |Violet Lucca
With director Danny Boyle and screenwriter Alex Garland’s 28 Years Later hitting cinemas this week, we revisit Mark Kermode’s review of the first film in the franchise. 17 June 2025After the mainstream meanderings of The Beach, this back-to-basics genre hybrid finds director Danny Boyle on home ground, delivering exactly the kind of pacey entertainment that once earned him the title of “the future of British film”.
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2 weeks ago |
bfi.org.uk | Claire I. Monk |Adam Nayman |Tara Judah |Jessica Kiang
When Paul Verhoeven’s divisive Vegas melodrama first arrived in UK cinemas, critic Claire Monk was unconvinced by its relentless ‘tits-in-your-face’ voyeurism and flawed ideas about women’s sexual ‘power’. 9 June 2025As is clear from the plot summary alone, director Paul Verhoeven and screenwriter Joe Eszterhas’s first collaboration since Basic Instinct (1992) is driven by preoccupations other than psychological and narrative credibility.
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2 weeks ago |
bfi.org.uk | Jessica Kiang Festivals |Jessica Kiang |Adam Nayman |Tara Judah
After the birth of her baby, Grace (Jennifer Lawrence) experiences a psychological rupture that devours her life, her relationship with husband Jackson (Robert Pattinson) and her own identity, in Lynne Ramsay’s ferociously maximalist psychodrama. 5 June 2025Reviewed from the 2025 Cannes Film FestivalHarrowing, beautiful and very possibly cursed, Lynne Ramsay’s magnificently unlovable adaptation of Ariana Harwicz’s novel begins as it refuses to continue, in quiet.
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Explore the cinema of mis/disinformation! Join film critic and author Adam Nayman (@brofromanother) for a fascinating lecture on John Frankenheimer's 1962 Cold War thriller The Manchurian Candidate. 📅 Thu, Jun 19 at 6 pm 📍Toronto Public Library 🔗https://t.co/IZBoz6mfDe https://t.co/MYHJTq8ip9
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