The Batman

“The Batman” isn’t a superhero movie. Not really. All the trappings are there: the Batmobile, the rugged suit, the gadgets courtesy of trusty butler Alfred. And of course, at the centre, is the Caped Crusader himself: brooding, tormented, seeking his own brand of nighttime justice in a Gotham City that’s spiralling into squalor and decay.…

The French Dispatch

Artifice imitates life in “The French Dispatch”, Wes Anderson’s exceedingly clever love letter to literary magazines such as The New Yorker. Here, journalists are the heroes, so expect film critics to be a little bit biased in their embrace of Anderson’s latest. It flatters the field, after all, just not in the way that Pulitzer-centric mega-scoop sagas…

No Time to Die

It has been six long years since we saw Agent 007 on the big screen. In 2015’s “Spectre”, Bond was last seen driving away in his Aston Martin DB5 in Italy with new love Madeleine Swann. Since then, the world has survived a few hardships and the passing of two immortal Bonds — Roger Moore and Sean Connery — marking the end…

Westworld S3

“It’s all a construct. None of it is real, and we’re not here so where the fuck are we?” “Westworld” is perhaps the most over-plotted show on television, obsessed with nonlinear storytelling, symbology, constant references to literature and philosophy, and regular plot twists or status quo shifts. It would be nice if the third season was…

The Goldfinch

Books are perhaps the richest source material for movies: The characters are there, the plot is there, the colour and texture are there—all you’ve got to do is shift it all over to the screen. If only it were that easy… There’s not much wrong with John Crowley’s film adaptation of Donna Tartt’s best-selling novel “The…