Biopic

Michael Film Review

Film and Television·Music and Dance

Michael (review) – mechanical storytelling and a sanitised portrayal so vacant of nuance or substance only leave one unsettled

by Calum Cooper

29th April 2026

Franz Film Review Kinoteka Film Festival

Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television

Franz (Kinoteka) review – Agnieszka Holland creates a kaleidoscopic portrait of Franz Kafka’s life and impact

by Daisy Grace Greetham

4th March 2026

Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+

Blue Moon (BFI London Film Festival) review – weighed down by the overwhelmingness of its style and the staleness of its substance

by Calum Cooper

19th October 2025

Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·Music and Dance

Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (BFI London Film Festival) review – Cooper keeps us at a distance from the man and the artist

by Neil Baker

18th October 2025

brave the dark stream it or skip it

Film and Television

Brave the Dark (review) – a predictable and comforting tale of a small-town Good Samaritan

by Neil Baker

15th September 2025

Film and Television

Modi: Three Days on the Wing of Madness (review) – Depp’s movie is messy rather than creatively mercurial

by Calum Cooper

10th July 2025

Editors' Choice·Film and Television·Music and Dance

A Complete Unknown (review) – engaging, elegant and alluring yet somewhat pedestrian

by Calum Cooper

12th January 2025

Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·Music and Dance

Better Man (review) – Gracey’s fabulous musical biopic isn’t monkeying around

by Neil Baker

20th December 2024

Film and Television·LGBTQ+·Music and Dance

Midas Man (review) – a worthy, if incomplete and rather too smooth biopic

by Neil Baker

30th October 2024

Editors' Choice·Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television

Priscilla (review) – can any union survive in the darkness of a fairytale world built on public image and destructive fame?

by Neil Baker

21st December 2023

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