Tim Robey
The Telegraph
United Kingdom
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Bros, review: Hollywood’s first gay romcom should feel fresh – but this stinks
Billy Eichner's film is too hung-up on its own significance to remember to be sweet, charming – or even funny → Read More
Moonage Daydream, review: a kaleidoscopic odyssey through David Bowie’s brilliance
This documentary about the late superstar, which has just premiered at Cannes, is an experience to greedily inhale in a packed cinema → Read More
Mass, review: a searing look at what it takes to forgive the unforgivable
Fran Kranz's drama has the parents of a murdered schoolboy sit down with the parents of his teenage killer – the result is astonishing → Read More
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, review: an odd, intrepid biopic that wears its art on its sleeve
This eccentric portrait of the celebrated 'outsider artist' has a charming visual aesthetic and a particularly lovely turn from Claire Foy → Read More
The Unforgivable, review: Sandra Bullock’s new redemption drama feels 10 years out of date
The actor-producer's tale of a cop-killer trying to rebuild her life had such a long gestation that it's been overtaken by real-life events → Read More
Taste: My Life Through Food Stanley Tucci, review: delicious anecdotes – and a disgusting recipe
In his third book about cooking, the actor delves back to his relationship with his first great love: food → Read More
The Woman in the Window, review: if you like Hitchcock, best avert your eyes
This messy Rear Window rip-off was derailed by production troubles, and neither the script nor the cast can get it back on track → Read More
How The Untouchables transformed Sean Connery's screen image
Brian De Palma's period cop thriller showed us Connery the near-character-actor, won him his Oscar, and revealed him to be mortal after all → Read More
A Saint from Texas by Edmund White, review: a feast of earthly delights
The 80-year-old American's latest novel is a surprising tale of twin Texas heiresses – one destined for sin, the other for sainthood → Read More
Why do the organisers refuse to cancel the Cannes Film Festival?
The Cannes Film Festival has been playing a protracted game of chicken with coronavirus. → Read More
Apropos of Nothing by Woody Allen, review: the embattled director denies it all in a guilt-inducingly fun memoir
See what you think. → Read More
Self-isolation catnip: has coronavirus made Cats watchable?
Cats is trending again on social media. → Read More
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: why Brad Pitt's Oscar win was 30 years in the making
Brad Pitt has admitted that his role in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood was unusually taxing. → Read More
The biggest snubs of the Oscars 2020 shortlist, from Jennifer Lopez to Adam Sandler
When is a snub not a snub? → Read More
'I saw a corpse and jumped out of my skin': inside the muddy horrors of making 1917
Universally recognised as an astounding technical achievement, Sam Mendes’s 1917 has been nominated in almost every conceivable department at this Sunday’s Baftas. → Read More
The Golden Globes are an industry joke – why does Hollywood laugh along?
The Golden Globes are handed out tonight at the usual televised shindig in Beverly Hills, meaning a reminder is due that these gongs for TV and film from the past 12 months are a deeply silly business. → Read More
What's really going on with Bond 25? The look on Daniel Craig's face says it all
The official announcement of a new Bond film – a live reveal, no less – ought to have been an occasion for some small degree of excitement. → Read More
How Shallow eclipsed Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper to win the film's only Oscar
How A Star Is Born's Oscar-winning anthem blew its stars out of the water → Read More
Colette review: a deliciously vampish Keira Knightley helps a queer icon find her voice
Dir: Wash Westmoreland. Starring: Keira Knightley, Dominic West, Eleanor Tomlinson, Fiona Shaw, Aiysha Hart, Denise Gough. 15 cert, 112 mins The Claudine novels, then-racy accounts of a young provincial girl blossoming in the big city, were the toast of Paris in 1900, widely read by women of the day who took her liberation vicariously to heart. Colette, the intricately woven,… → Read More
The curious case of Holmes & Watson: just how bad is the worst movie of 2018?
It’s one thing for a big-budget Christmas release to bypass all press screenings before being dumped in cinemas – and not unheard of. → Read More