The British theatre director Dominic Cooke makes his film debut with On Chesil Beach, a 60s-set drama adapted by Ian McEwan from his own novel. Florence (Saoirse Ronan) is rich and Edward (Billy Howle) is poor, but when they lock eyes at a activist meeting, it’s all over. The movie ping-pongs between their respective youths […]
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Lady Bird‘s feather touch
The actor Greta Gerwig has consistently pushed her way into public consciousness for the past decade, in indie favourites like Frances Ha, Maggie’s Plan and 20th Century Women, and a handful of Hollywood things like Jackie, Greenberg and The Mindy Project. Her style is disarmingly naturalistic, appearing to lack all form, but displaying and evoking […]
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Hanna delivers thrills, teeth
Hanna is a lot of things. Its surface is suggested in the trailer: Saoirse Ronan is the titular teen, raised since diapers to be a polyglot killer by her father, Erik (Eric Bana), hiding in snowbound wastes from CIA nasty and dental hygiene obsessive Marissa (Cate Blanchett) until she’s old enough to face up to […]