Guy Lodge

Wonderful performances, yes. But A-grade acting in multiplex fare wasn’t a rarity.

But it wasn’t a Carell star vehicle! I take your budget point, but I still don’t think we’re talking like for like here.

I think it’s different from those in that it’s not particularly indie in scale or sensibility, and is built around an old-school movie-star turn by a big name.

Just saw ROOFMAN: there was a time when you could go to the multiplex any weekend and see something straightforwardly grownup with this much comfy storytelling nous and easy-breezy star power, but now it feels like something rare, which gets it sized up as a prestige item, which isn’t quite right.

Do you mean like an ipad

Yeah, I’ve never seen anyone crack open a laptop in a press screening — and whether it’s “allowed” or not, I can’t imagine it would go down very well.

Absolutely fucking not

Plus, even if you are online for 8am, the rush and resulting app/site freeze limits your chances of getting the tickets you need anyway. It’s really not good enough.

I personally think press screening access for a film festival that charges a £52 accreditation fee shouldn’t be a lottery situation, but that’s me.

He wrote an Instagram post shrugging off the box office and saying he’s proud of the film. I’m not sure that’s the same as “issuing a statement”.

One film reviewing tip you can have for free is that no good critic ever refers to a director/actor/cinematographer/whoever as having done “a phenomenal job”.

TRON: ARES, from the same definitely-not-British titling geniuses who brought you OUR SOULS AT NIGHT

Yes but Jeff Wells is very concerned that red-state audiences don’t approve of it

Whatever this film is — good, bad, nuts — that’s some prime voting-window visiblility right there.

Love San Sebastián forever, of course, but I would like a word with the town planner who decided that a city with an annual rainfall of over 1500mm should be mostly paved with smooth black marble

Yes.

‘Predators’ Review: David Osit’s Quietly Trenchant Documentary Asks What Truth Came Out of a True-Crime Phenomenon David Osit's superb documentary 'Predators' examines the ghoulish NBC hit 'To Catch a Predator' and its cultural legacy over the last two decades.

My review of PREDATORS: variety.com/2025/film/re...

Co-sign: this film has been on my mind since January, and my mind doesn’t stay on much these days

Saw ONE HOUR WITH YOU for the first time in Bologna this summer and it was such pure delight. My friend and I practically cackled with joy at “Oh That Mitzi”.

I notice so many people these days with glasses that sit way too high on their face, is it a trend or is it more people ordering them online rather than trying them on

I say this as someone who reviews things for a living: not everything needs to be reviewed.

You delivered it, you did your job, I have no complaints. But it wasn’t an experience. What do you want from me?

I hate it when editors think, “Oh, that person’s a fun writer, they should be our new TV (or film, or book, etc) critic … what do you mean, expertise? We all watch telly, don’t we?”

Pride & Prejudice - The Table Read Tickets | From £18.67 | 12 Oct @ Troxy, London | DICE Travel back to Regency England for a night of arch romance, gender-swapped casting and Palestine solidarity. On Sunday, 12th October, a table read of Jane Au...

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‘Hamnet’ Wins Toronto Film Festival Audience Award Chloé Zhao's "Hamnet" wins the TIFF Audience Award.

So Chloé Zhao is the first filmmaker to win this twice? variety.com/2025/film/ne...

Thank you, I miss it too. It hasn’t officially been axed but a reduced page count means there isn’t usually room for it. Apparently they’re planning a layout shuffle which will enable the column and other features to appear more regularly, so let’s see.

So much for engagement bridging disagreement.

What was interesting about him? If you didn’t agree with *much* that he said, what did he say that you do agree with?

What’s your team?

Especially after they snatched defeat from the jaws of victory last year.