One Life Anthony Hopkins stars as Nicholas Winton, the “British Schindler” who rescued 669 Jewish children from the Nazis, alongside Helena Bonham Carter on mighty form. What we said: “The film does justice to this overwhelmingly moving event in British public life in a quietly affecting drama.” Read the full review .
Scala!!! Richly enjoyable documentary charts the rise and fall of a unique alt-cinephile repertory house that inspired generations of film-makers, artists and musicians. What we said: “A very entertaining madeleine for movie-going of the analogue age.” Read the full review.
Poor Things Emma Stone gives a hilarious, beyond-next-level performance as Bella Baxter, the experimental subject of a troubled Victorian anatomist, in Yorgos Lanthimos’s toweringly bizarre comedy. What we said: “Everything in it – every frame, every image, every joke, every performance – gets a gasp of excitement.” Read the full review.
The End We Start From All too believable disaster drama with Jodie Comer as a young woman whose baby arrives just as environmental crisis begins to break the society around her. What we said: “It is all the more disturbing, credible and immediate in that, unlike other examples of genre, the narrative isn’t heading for an abyss of unknowable chaos.” Read the full review .
View image in fullscreen Jodie Comer in The End We Start From. Photograph: Landmark Media/Alamy The Holdovers Alexander Payne’s story of a cantankerous teacher h.
