Just what everyone needed after a year without cinema. Godzilla vs Kongįourth instalment in the MonsterVerse series, here deploying the mother of all punch-ups between the giant lizard and the mammoth ape of the title. What we said: “The open secret of Victorian sexuality is rediscovered by Lee in this fine, intimate, intelligently acted movie about forbidden love in 1840s Lyme Regis.” Read the full review. Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan star in a period drama from God’s Own Country’s Francis Lee, loosely based on the life of pioneering 19th-century fossil-hunter Mary Anning here Lee posits a passionate affair between her and a convalescing visitor. Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan in Ammonite. What we said: “This is a wonderfully sympathetic, deeply felt and tenderly funny family drama with a novelistic attention to details and episodes … Cámara thoroughly inhabits the figure of Gómez: unselfconsciously inspiring and lovable.” Read the full review.įorbidden love. Moving biopic, directed by Fernando Trueba, of Colombian activist Héctor Abad Gómez, assassinated in 1987 by far-right paramilitaries, as told through a memoir by his son and featuring a great performance from Javier Cámara. What we said: “Its sheer colossal size, its sepulchral feeling of doom and its trance-like sense of its own mythic grandeur make it weirdly entertaining.” Read the full review. The long-campaigned-for recut of the poorly received Justice League movie from 2017, in which the collection of superheroes take on Ciáran Hinds’ Steppenwolf, with Snyder’s “vision” restored at a four-hour running time. What we said: “This drama shrewdly and fascinatingly elevates to equal status with Hampton – a diptych of tragic irony, the Judas to Hampton’s messiah.” Read the full review. Judas and the Black Messiahĭaniel Kaluuya won an Oscar for his portrayal of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton, gunned down by the FBI in 1969, in a heartfelt drama that focuses attention on informant-betrayer William O’Neal (LaKeith Stanfield). What we said: “Pike offers a window display of pure predatory wickedness, lighting up the screen with her sociopath haircut, shades and fashion-plate outfits, like Nurse Ratched’s aspirational granddaughter.” Read the full review. Rosamund Pike is on top form in an outrageously black-comic thriller, playing a court appointed “guardian” who specialises in getting elderly people forcibly confined to care homes, then milking their assets. Rosamund Pike and Dianne Wiest in I Care A Lot.
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