
Alistair Harkness
Film Critic and Feature Writer at The Scotsman
Freelance Film Reviewer at BBC
Film critic for @TheScotsman/ @Scotsman_arts.
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1 week ago |
scotsman.com | Alistair Harkness
The Ballad of Wallis Island (12A) ★★☆☆☆The Salt Path (12A) ★★☆☆☆Bogancloch (U) ★★☆☆☆A film about a lonely lottery winner who lures his favourite musician to his isolated home for a private gig, The Ballad of Wallis Island has a premise full of creepy possibilities.
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2 weeks ago |
scotsman.com | Alistair Harkness
The Phoenician Scheme (15) ★★★★Lilo & Stitch (U) ★★Wes Anderson is the most singular American filmmaker currently working, but his distinctive style sometimes gives the impression he’s retreating further and further from reality into his own hermetically sealed world of irony and whimsy. Really, though, his films are rife with human drama; it just seeps in unexpectedly in odd ways.
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2 weeks ago |
scotsman.com | Alistair Harkness
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (12A) ★★★★Thirty years on from the first Mission: Impossible, Tom Cruise is back for one last hurrah as IMF agent Ethan Hunt, ready — nay, destined — to save humanity yet again.
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3 weeks ago |
scotsman.com | Alistair Harkness
Make it to Munich pays tribute to an unassuming teenager with an indomitable spirit, writes Alistair HarknessMake it to Munich (12A) ★★★Good One (15) ★★★★Final Destination: Bloodlines (15) ★★★Hallow Road (15) ★★In 2023 Scottish teenager Ethan Walker was at the start of what might have been a promising football career when he was hit by a car in New York state while away at college on a football scholarship.
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1 month ago |
scotsman.com | Alistair Harkness
The Surfer (15) ★★★★Ocean with David Attenborough (PG) ★★★★The Uninvited (15) ★★★★Desire: The Carl Craig Story (15) ★★★If surfing is a state of mind — to paraphrase Patrick Swayze’s guru-like surfer in action classic Point Break — then Nicholas Cage’s new film The Surfer explores what might happen if said mind is thoroughly unhinged.
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