Theatre, Film, Literature Reviews -London and other European Cities
Monday, 24 March 2025
The Brutalist, Film/Drama (USA), cowritten & directed by Brady Corbet 9* out of 10
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The Brutalist is a film that is complex and many-layered, full of great moments and deep meanings. It works on many levels: aesthetic, ...
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Monday, 4 March 2024
American Fiction, Film (US 2023) written & directed by Cord Jefferson 9* out of 10
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An excellently written screenplay and a great cast led by the outstanding Jeffrey Wright make the prize-winning Oscar-nominated American Fic...
Tuesday, 26 December 2023
Killers of the Flower Moon, Film (USA 2023), written by Eric Roth and director Martin Scorsese, 9.5* out of 10
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Killers of the Flower Moon (to be seen on Apple+ or at a cinema near you) is a classic Martin Scorsese epic in an unusual Mid-Western settin...
Wednesday, 2 August 2023
Sandflakes (גרגירי חול), Film, Israel 2023, written by Gitit Kabiri, directed by Yahel Kabiri, 7.5* out of 10
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Containing autobiographical elements and created by a mother-son team, "Sandflakes" is a low-key coming-of-age drama. Playing in...
Tuesday, 1 August 2023
The Monkey House, Film ,Israel 2023, written and directed by Avi Nesher, 8* out of 10
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Avi Nesher's intelligent, warm, and tangled comedy takes its characters and its audience seriously. Very enjoyable and warmly recommende...
Monday, 28 November 2022
The Capture (2019-2022), TV Series (UK), Seasons 1 and 2, written and directed by Ben Chanan, 8.0* out of 10
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Over The Captures' two seasons, writer and director Ben Chanan manages to weave surveillance technologies, human factors and organisatio...
Monday, 6 July 2020
The Restaurant (Vår tid är nu), Swedish TV Series (2017-2019), starring Hedda Stiernsted 7.5* out of 10
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What makes the nordic telenovela The Restaurant special, is that next to some 30 years of family drama it treats us to a post-World War II ...
Saturday, 6 June 2020
The Bureau (Bureau des Legendes), TV Series Season 1, Canal+ France, created by Eric Rochant starring Matthieu Kassovitz, 10* out of 10
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Season 1 of the Bureau (available on Amazon) is an outstanding French espionage story. Tightly scripted, brilliantly played, with great ch...
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Tuesday, 5 May 2020
Unorthodox, Netflix miniseries US-Germany 2020, directed by Maria Schrader, 8* out of 10
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A miniseries with quite a bit of Yiddish dialogue and an unusual subject, Unorthodox is well made with much attention being paid to speech,...
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Wednesday, 12 February 2020
The Farewell, Film USA 2019, written and directed by Lulu Wang, 8.5* out of 10
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Writer-director Lulu Wang succeeds with a touching and intelligent family comedy-drama dealing with universal themes in a world where stron...
Wednesday, 18 December 2019
Marianne and Leonard: Words of Love, Documentary Film UK 2019, written and directed by Nick Broomfield, 8.5 out of 10
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Supported by interesting and rarely seen archive material, filmmaker Nick Broomfield takes a sympathetic but not uncritical look at Mariann...
Sunday, 8 December 2019
Human Nature, Documentary Film 2019, co-written with Regina Sobell and directed by Adam Bolt, 10* out of 10
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The award-winning Human Nature is a spellbinding, entertaining, informative and moving natural science documentary about the recently disco...
Tuesday, 19 November 2019
Portrait de la Jeune Fille en Feu (Portrait of a Lady on Fire), Film (France 2019), written and directed by Céline Sciamma, 10* out of 10
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Awarded the Golden Palm at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, Portrait of a Lady on Fire is a beautiful and memorable period film. Céline Sciam...
Saturday, 2 November 2019
Le Jeune Ahmed (Young Ahmed), Belgium 2019, written and directed by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, 7.5* out of 10, seen at Viennale Film Festival Vienna
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With Le Jeune Ahmed the Dardenne brothers bring their trademark documentary style to a drama about a radicalised young Muslim boy in Wester...
Tuesday, 29 October 2019
A Rainy Day in New York, Film 2019, written and directed by Woody Allen starring Timothée Chalamet, 7* out of 10
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Eighty-three-year-old Woody Allen, embroiled in accusations of child sexual abuse and a 60 Million Dollar lawsuit with Amazon Studios, pres...
Sunday, 6 October 2019
Parasite, Film (2019), Korea, written and directed by Bong Jun-Ho, 9.5* out of 10
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Parasite is a bizarre, at times funny, at times horrifying story about rich and poor in developed societies coming into ever-closer proximi...
Wednesday, 25 September 2019
Come from Away, Musical, written by David Hein and Irene Sankoff, Phoenix Theatre London, 8* out of 10
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Built on true Canadian hospitality, politeness and a bit of pathos, Come from Away's originality in taking an unlikely subject as the b...
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