Settlers review: Powerful sci-fi movie evokes classic westerns
28 July 2021
Survival is all in Settlers, a harrowing sci-fi movie set on Mars that is reminiscent of realistic westerns like High Plains Drifter
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Sound of Metal review: Riz Ahmed's performance is Oscar-worthy
29 March 2021
It's easy to see why Riz Ahmed has been nominated for an Oscar for the film Sound of Metal, in which he gives a harrowing, subtle performance as a drug addict-turned musician who loses his hearing
Second Spring review: A brave film about agency and cognitive decline
13 January 2021
In Second Spring, an archaeologist who has developed a lesser-known form of dementia that alters her personality, unmasks her new life – to the dismay of friends and family
How realistic is Contagion? The movie doesn't skimp on science
6 April 2020
Contagion was a film released in 2011 about a fictional pandemic of a virus called MEV-1 which kills between 25 and 30 per cent of those it infected. Here is our review of the film originally published in September 2011, now that it's on Netflix
The Lighthouse: How extreme isolation transforms the body and mind
30 January 2020
Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson play two characters who experience extreme isolation in the film The Lighthouse, which has a drastic effect on their minds
Human Nature film review: Telling the CRISPR story with wit and verve
27 November 2019
How much do you really know about the revolutionary gene-editing technology called CRISPR? A sharp independent film will have you up to speed in no time, finds Simon Ings in his latest column
