I’ve spent years trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up. Not there yet – having too much fun – but for now, writing’s good.
Helene Wong
Now Showing February 23 2012
New in our films-in-theatres round-up: Contraband, Shame, Vincent Wants To Sea. [more]
Now Showing February 16 2012
New additions to our all-films-in-theatres review round-up: Leonardo Live, Like Crazy, Moneyball, Romantics Anonymous, The Ides of March, This Means War, and Weekend. [more]
Film review: Moneyball
Helene Wong doesn't know much about baseball, but Moneyball, opening this week, is the sports movie of the year. [more]
Now Showing February 9 2012
Our movie review round-up returns from vacation, with assessments of every film in theatres, from A Few Best Men to Young Adult, with a lot of Oscar contenders in between. [more]
Like Crazy and A Few Best Men review
Britons in love feature in two romantic films opening this week, but there the similarity ends. [more]
Collaborators review
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The National Theatre Live series continues this month with Collaborators, the debut play of screenwriter John Hodge. While the assaultive style and black comedy of his film writing (Trainspotting, Shallow Grave) aren’t to the fore here, there is still a chilly/comical cast to the story.
Drawing on... [more]
Sione’s 2: Unfinished Business review
The odd flash of comic chemistry can still be detected in this uneven sequel. [more]
The Iron Lady review
The Iron Lady opens with an elderly Margaret Thatcher (Meryl Streep) buying milk at the dairy. Nice touch, that, for the grocer’s daughter. Unrecognised, she hobbles home against the morning rush and to her housekeeper’s consternation: Thatcher’s mind is failing and she’s not meant to be out. Aptly, the film... [more]
Now Showing Christmas 2011
In our final catch-all summary of films in theatres for 2011, we review The Salt of Life, Tintin, Melancholia, We Bought A Zoo, and The Iron Lady. [more]
El Bulli and The First Grader review
Gereon Wetzel's documentary, out now, is extraordinarily absorbing, and The First Grader has old-school charm in a 21st-century postcolonial context. [more]
Now Showing December 15 2011
New this week: reviews of El Buli: Cooking In Progress, Illustrious Energy, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, and The First Grader. [more]
Now Showing: November 24, 2011
New this week: reviews of Arthur Christmas, Rest For The Wicked, Submarine, The Whistleblower, and When A City Falls. [more]
The Whistleblower and Rest for the Wicked review
The Whistleblower is no The Insider, and finally something for the 65+ set. [more]
Now Showing: November 17, 2011
This week, we confront every non-teenage girl film reviewer's greatest fear: a new Twilight movie. [more]
Now Showing: November 10, 2011
New this week: reviews of Beginners, Contagion, Eco-Pirate: the Story of Paul Watson, Last Train Home, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, and 13 Assassins. [more]
Beginners and Snow Flower and the Secret Fan review
In Beginners, out today, director Mike Mills tells his own story with subtle realism; Snow Flower is less well-told. [more]