Kevin Maher
The Times of London
United Kingdom
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever review — a smart franchise in mourning
Fantasy and reality meet to remember Chadwick Boseman → Read More
Top Gun: Maverick review — Tom Cruise flies again in a glorious pulse-quickening sequel
★★★★☆“Trust your instincts. Don’t think. Just do.” That’s the new mantra of the fighter pilot Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise) in this belated and gloriou → Read More
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore review — muscular fantasy with unexpected soul
★★★★☆JK Rowling, all is forgiven. The 56-year-old literary superstar has proved that you’re never too old, or too successful, to learn some movie-making basics → Read More
Cries and Whispers (1972) review — a disturbing and brutal sibling psychodrama
★★★★☆The Swedish maestro Ingmar Bergman is simultaneously at his most brilliant and most brutal in this unforgiving 90-minute psychodrama about the emotional an → Read More
Baftas 2022 predictions: who should win and who will win?
Best filmBelfastDon’t Look UpDuneLicorice PizzaThe Power of the DogWho should winThe Power of the Dog Jane Campion’s revisionist western is critically adored, → Read More
Ten ways to save film awards shows
The Golden Globes were cancelled. The Oscars are in decline. And the Baftas, according to a recent editorial in The Hollywood Reporter, are flirting with ‘irrelevance’. In short, these events are dying. Here’s how they could be revived → Read More
The Bond producers tell all about the future of 007 (well, almost)
A famous scene from the 1983 Bond movie Octopussy has become, in recent days, unexpectedly eerie. It’s set within a grand Soviet war room and features a derange → Read More
Scream review — ‘guess the killer’ game is all this franchise has to offer
★★☆☆☆The definitive scene in this rebooted and now fifth Scream instalment takes place midway through the proceedings, after multiple murders by the returning g → Read More
The 355 review — these actresses deserve more than this lazy, clichéd mess
Five thrillingly charismatic performers, a giddy central premise and a single memorable one-liner can’t save this hotchpotch production → Read More
What to watch on TV on Christmas Day 2021
The ultimate guide, from a Quentin Blake documentary to The Great Christmas Bake Off, Call the Midwife and Strictly Come Dancing → Read More
Titane star Agathe Rousselle: ‘It’s time for men to know that women can be violent as well’
It’s the nose-breaking that usually does it. Roughly 30 minutes into the extraordinary and inescapably violent Titane, our demented yet curiously sympathetic an → Read More
The Matrix Resurrections review — another truly horrible sequel
★☆☆☆☆The curse of The Matrix strikes again. An ingenious, inventive and era-defining sci-fi movie from 1999 has now, with this latest and long-awaited misfire, → Read More
Spider-Man: No Way Home review — Tom Holland casts his web and captures your heart
As satisfying to watch as it is perilous to discuss (it’s a spoiler minefield), this latest big screen adventure for Marvel’s web-slinging superhero is a dynamite blast of smarty-pants postmodernism → Read More
A Maria to die for! Rachel Zegler, star of Spielberg’s West Side Story
Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story is an exhilarating viewing experience. It opens with a riot of colour, movement, music and passion as the 1950s New York City → Read More
House of Gucci review — howlingly inept biopic is all dressed up with nowhere to go
★☆☆☆☆Ridley Scott is a master stylist. He has always seen the film frame in painterly terms, as a dance of light, colours and shade. Hand him a tight script, ho → Read More
Respect review — Jennifer Hudson has nailed Aretha Franklin
★★★★☆Late into this Oscar-baiting Aretha Franklin biopic, in a Los Angeles mansion in the early Seventies, our heroine, played by Jennifer Hudson, suddenly snap → Read More
Dune review — jaw-dropping visuals, but the drama is lacking
★★☆☆☆Dune is gorgeous. Almost every frame of Denis Villeneuve’s long-gestating adaptation of the Frank Herbert sci-fi classic is spectacular. Orange desert vist → Read More
The autumn arts guide: 50 to see, from Succession to Simon Rattle, Bond to Bill Bailey
FilmBy Ed Potton and Kevin Maher The Many Saints of NewarkFourteen years after The Sopranos was whacked comes the prequel movie, set in Sixties and Seventies Ne → Read More
Now, Voyager (1942) review — a career-high turn from Bette Davis
★★★★★Unfairly criticised on its release for being lachrymose and soppy, this Bette Davis makeover movie has only become more affecting over time. Davis gives a → Read More
Why is Tom Cruise everywhere?
It was one of the highlights of Sunday night’s game at Wembley. No, not Luke Shaw slamming in a half-volley after two minutes of play, but the reaction that goal provoked from a member of royalty in → Read More