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Giant review – another tired boxing biopic for the pile
"Prince" Naseem Hamed is the subject of this meandering and shoddily-written boxing bio that’s leavened slightly by two lead performance…
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Peter Hujar’s Day review – Ira Sachs’ best film yet
Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall light up the screen in this gentle, magnetic character study from Ira Sachs. It’s only a matter of time before kids …
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Chloé Zhao: ‘There’s a desire for the language of ambiguity, of poetry’
Plato, Carl Jung and Terrence Malick are what kept the filmmaker inspired while making her jaw-dropping latest, Hamnet. The career ascent of writ…
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Hamnet review – Jessie Buckley could make a stone cry
Chloé Zhao casts fresh eyes on one of the most analysed artworks in history in her adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel, boasting a pair of…
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It's a Wrap: 2025 in Film
LWLies presents a contributor roundup of 2025’s best films and filmmakers. We don’t usually do the end-of-year wrap thing, and in previous years …
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The Housemaid review – what a mess
Freida McFadden's bestselling soapy thriller comes to the big screen via Paul Feig with ludicrous results. I first became acquainted with Fre…
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Bowie: The Final Act review – revisiting the supernova
By framing Bowie’s exit as a carefully composed design, Jonathan Stiasny’s new doc The Final Act is more persuasive in theory than in execution. …
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