GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
Film round-up: May 25, 2023
Maria Duarte reviews of Sisu, Master Gardener, Hypnotic and The Little Mermaid
NAZI NEMESIS: Jorma Tommili in Sisu
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PAUL DONOVAN applauds an excellently crafted new musical that explores the life and death of Ruth Ellis
PAUL DONOVAN is tickled by the excruciating take-downs of one of the funniest, wittiest, political writers around.
RON JACOBS points out, via a transcription of Kissinger’s secret recordings, that Trump could never have existed without Nixon and Kissinger
ELLIS RAE is persuaded that the advantages of the ‘talking cure’ are superior to the treatment of mental illness with drugs
JOHN GREEN, MICHAL BONCZA and BELLA KATZ review The Good Boy, Broken English, and Don't Be Prey
Sisu (15)
Directed by Jalmari Helander
★★★★
SET in Lapland in 1944, a lone prospector wages war on evil Nazis who steal his gold in this relentless and violent but surprisingly satisfying revenge thriller by writer-director Jalmari Helander.
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