Robbie Collin

London

Film Critic at The Telegraph

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The Star Wars cut George Lucas didn’t want you to see – and the battle to bring it back

1 week ago | msn.com | Robbie Collin

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The Star Wars cut George Lucas didn't want you to see

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Robbie Collin

In 1997, the director gave his blockbuster a Disney-fied digital makeover - erasing the celluloid original from history. Until nowDecember 1978 might not quite qualify as a long time ago, either in a galaxy far, far away or this one. But for Star Wars fans, it certainly feels like it. Hard as it is to believe, that was the last point at which it was possible to watch the original version of George Lucas's science-fiction fantasy blockbuster in a British cinema.
Why Hollywood owes so much to Hitler's favourite film-maker

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Robbie Collin

Much of her work was Nazi propaganda, yet nevertheless Leni Riefenstahl has influenced everyone from George Lucas to Francis Ford CoppolaWho is the most influential female film-maker of all time? Sofia Coppola? Agnès Varda? Greta Gerwig? Nope, guess again. Some clues: her films were objects of fascination worldwide, and out-and-out blockbusters at home.
Sinners: Michael B Jordan’s wild Southern Gothic horror is an utterly thrilling oddity

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Robbie Collin

OpinionRobbie CollinFri, April 11, 2025 at 9:49 AM UTC3 min readRyan Coogler’s career has always been teetering on the brink of prestige. Fruitvale Station, Creed, Black Panther: none of these films behaved like classic Oscar bait, exactly, but all three came bundled with enough topicality and substance to ensure that numerous beards were liberally stroked.
Michael B Jordan's wild Southern Gothic horror is an utterly thrilling oddity

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Robbie Collin

Ryan Coogler's career has always been teetering on the brink of prestige. Fruitvale Station, Creed, Black Panther: none of these films behaved like classic Oscar bait, exactly, but all three came bundled with enough topicality and substance to ensure that numerous beards were liberally stroked.
One to One: John & Yoko –A casually dazzling, offbeat portrait of Lennon and Ono

2 weeks ago | msn.com | Robbie Collin

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From Tom Cruise to a Covid horror-western: The 10 films to watch at Cannes 2025

2 weeks ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | Robbie Collin

Cannes has long been a festival of chickens and eggs, and it can be fiendishly hard to distinguish the two in advance. Do films matter because they premiere there, or do they premiere there because they matter?
A nerdy Rami Malek makes an unlikely action hero

2 weeks ago | telegraph.co.uk | Robbie Collin

As Hollywood's bloat and bombast era grinds ever on, a bit of trim professionalism is welcome, and this lean new thriller from 20th Century Studios gets the job done, no questions asked. Meet Charlie Heller (Rami Malek), a CIA analyst with a very particular set of skills: unlike Liam Neeson's in Taken, however, they don't include the regular cracking of Albanian skulls. Rather, he's a backroom cryptographer at Langley, and his work in the field is all-digital.
One to One: John & Yoko -A casually dazzling, offbeat portrait of Lennon and Ono

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Robbie Collin

“If you want to know what 20 million Americans are talking about on Saturday night,” we hear John Lennon observe in Kevin Macdonald’s new feature, “it’s what they saw on Friday night on TV.” This casually dazzling concert film about Lennon and Yoko Ono’s 1972 ‘One to One’ benefit gigs is less a documentary than a virtuoso channel surfing session – positioning the couple’s early 1970s activities as mere sploshes in a tidal wave of media noise.
Drop: a White Lotus star’s first-date thriller is like the dumbest ever episode of Black Mirror

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Robbie Collin

OpinionRobbie CollinThu, April 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM UTC3 min readDrop is ludicrous. OK, so are all films in which a taunting psychopath calls the shots, but this one takes the biscuit because of the so-not-cutting-edge tech element. The title refers to the iPhone’s AirDrop feature, enabling everyone within range to ping pictures and videos to your device. Mildly creepy? Perhaps. Terrifying, no.

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