Christina Newland

6 days ago | bfi.org.uk | Francesca Steele |Nicolas Rapold |Jonathan Romney |Christina Newland

Like a jauntier Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), The Ballad of Wallis Island is an affecting comedy that contemplates the pains and pleasures of a musical career in freefall. And as it happens, like the Coen brothers’ film, it stars Carey Mulligan as a woman who represents the protagonist’s romantic failure. Tom Basden is McGwyer, an arrogant, embittered musician racked with self-loathing over desperate celebrity behaviour, like teeth-whitening.

1 week ago | bfi.org.uk | Nicolas Rapold Festivals |Nicolas Rapold |Jonathan Romney |Christina Newland

Josh O’Connor stars as a wannabe criminal who fumbles a small-time art robbery in Reichardt’s ingenious evocation of 1970s suburban Massachusetts. 29 May 2025Reviewed from the 2025 Cannes Film FestivalHeist movies run on the mechanics of escape and the thrill of getting away with it, but Kelly Reichardt’s latest detoured story brilliantly turns the genre on its head.

1 week ago | bfi.org.uk | Christina Newland |Henry Miller |Mark Asch |Jonathan Romney

Reviewed from the 2025 Cannes Film FestivalLong live Spike Lee and long live Denzel Washington. The filmmaker and the towering star of some of his greatest films – not least Malcolm X – are together again for Lee’s latest joint, Highest 2 Lowest, a corporate drama and crime thriller combined into one that’s all about power, money, and self-interest in the world of modern Black capitalism and the music biz.

2 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Christina Newland

“I myself feel very safe,” is one of the finely tuned running jokes Benicio del Toro utters repeatedly throughout the course of The Phoenician Scheme, Wes Anderson’s latest film. The year is 1950, and Del Toro is maverick, ruthless billionaire Zsa Zsa Korda, a schemer who engineers industrial wonders and manipulates international financial markets to his gain – and who has a habit of getting into plane crashes and surviving assassination attempts, even as others around him perish.

2 weeks ago | timeout.com | Christina Newland |Thora Birch |Jim Belushi |Imogen Poots

Photograph: Chronology of WaterReview4 out of 5 starsKristen Stewart’s directorial debut offers a poetic exploration of a writer’s traumatic pastFilmRecommendedSaturday 17 May 2025FacebookTwitterPinterestEmailWhatsAppAdvertisingTime Out saysKristen Stewart reveals a deft directorial hand and a distinct, languid, echoing style in her vividly made, emotionally visceral exploration of the life and times of American novelist Lidia Yuknavitch.