Robbie Collin
The Telegraph
United Kingdom
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We Have a Ghost, review: who else but Jennifer Coolidge would play a fraudulent TV medium?
This comedy horror gleefully recycles ideas that were last operational in the 1980s → Read More
Babylon, review: sex, drugs, gambling and snake fights in this bittersweet Hollywood bacchanal
Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie lead this extraordinary, bittersweet bacchanal from La La Land director Damien Chazelle → Read More
McEnroe, review: friends and rivals scrutinise 'the brat' in a gripping documentary
Björn Borg and Billie Jean King shed light on John McEnroe's genius - and temper tantrums → Read More
Which Strictly team will you be cheering on?
With just two couples left in this year’s final – after an injury forced AJ to withdraw – two writers reveal who they’ll be rooting for → Read More
Will Alec Baldwin’s tears save his career?
The actor's emotional interview following the shooting of Halyna Hutchins could help determine whether we accept him back on our screens → Read More
Schumacher, review: a catastrophically misjudged positioning exercise for the Schumacher brand
This new documentary about the former F1 star treats his appalling 2013 skiing accident not merely as a postscript, but as an inconvenience → Read More
When film critics watch football: ‘Cannes hasn’t shrieked so much since the lesbian nun film’
The Telegraph’s film critic saw the worst flick of the festival – from an Italian director – just before the Euro final. Was it a warning? → Read More
Freaky, review: serial murder, teenage girls and a ludicrously good Vince Vaughn
This cross between Friday the 13th and Freaky Friday sounds bizarre, but it’s a cunningly-written treat: agile, funny and savagely satirical → Read More
Minari, review: a gentle restoration of faith in the American Dream
Tipped for awards this spring, Lee Isaac Chung’s tender story is a finely-observed portrait of family relations and rural American values → Read More
Nomadland, review: Frances McDormand goes on the run from American carnage
In Chloé Zhao’s hauntingly beautiful Golden Globe winner, a widow from a mining town joins the drifters of small-town America → Read More
Judas and the Black Messiah, review: was the death of Fred Hampton an FBI assassination?
Shaka King’s Sixties-set conspiracy thriller, led sensationally by Daniel Kaluuya and Lakeith Stanfield, has Oscars in its sights → Read More
Oscars 2021 predictions: who will win, and who should win?
Our chief film critic picks this year’s Academy Awards runners and riders. Do you agree? → Read More
The 10 best films of 2020 (and five of the worst)
For cinemas, it was a year like no other – but there was still raw British talent and head-spinning action everywhere you looked → Read More
Mulan review: why on earth didn't Disney put this on the big screen?
This visually stunning but heartless movie is bypassing cinemas for Disney+. Its big bucks effects lost on living rooms → Read More
How British movies made the seaside freaky
As two striking debuts join the canon, our critic asks what it is about the British coast that inspires such unsettling films → Read More
The 100 greatest movies of all time
Every 10 years since 1952, the cinephile bible Sight & Sound has asked critics, programmers and academics to vote on a list of the greatest films ever made. → Read More
Crip Camp, Netflix review: revolution, sex and the fight for disabled rights
Dirs: James LeBrecht, Nicole Newnham. 12A cert, 106 mins Crip Camp is the kind of documentary whose name circulates in must-watch lists for months: it’s an inspiring true story, accessibly told. There’s nothing more jarring or discomfiting in this Sundance Audience Award-winner than its title, which deploys an offensive American slang term (“crip”, derived from cripple) with reappropriative… → Read More
Sonic the Hedgehog review: the video game speed freak slowed down to a drab, joyless crawl
Dir: Jeff Fowler; Starring: Ben Schwartz (voice), James Marsden, Jim Carrey, Tika Sumpter, Adam Pally. PG cert, 99 mins What was your favourite level in the Sonic the Hedgehog video games? The one in which Sonic was hunted with machine guns and sniffer dogs in an alpine forest? Or perhaps the one in which Sonic visited a roadside dive bar, tried line dancing, played darts and brawled with Hell’s… → Read More
Parasite review: this blood-spattered Oscar-winner will get under your skin
Dir: Bong Joon-ho. Cast: Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-shik, Park So-dam, Lee Jung-eun, Chang Hyae-jin. Cert 15, 131 mins. Even the grandest house is only as strong as its foundations – the unseen fingers reaching down into the rock beneath. Parasite, the unmissable new film from Bong Joon-ho, is a black satirical thriller about the tension between the superficial and the… → Read More
Director Bong Joon Ho on why Parasite became an Oscar favourite: 'Perhaps it's the way the film smells...'
Bong Joon Ho has spent the past nine months touring the world with his acclaimed new film, and in rare moments of respite has been trying to figure out why. → Read More