Barnaby Turner

WHAT I LIKED: Though he's always had fun turning up the dials on reality and examining and exaggerating people's little everyday behaviours, 'Beetlejuice,' is undoubtedly Tim Burton's most overtly comedic film. In large part that's enabled becaus... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: Martin McDonagh's 'The Banshees of Inisherin,' is one of those quiet, profound films that strips characters of typical distractions and concerns to force them to contemplate the point of putting one foot in front of the other. Set o... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: There's been a lot of talk about Andrew Dominik's 'Blonde,' being an inaccurate and exploitative realisation of Marilyn Monroe's life, but I've always maintained that fact is utterly irrelevant when it comes to cinema. Art's job is t... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: Katie Silberman and Olivia Wilde's 'Don't Worry Darling,' is a Hollywood thriller about a woman called Alice (Florence Pugh) who slowly realises she's living in a trap created by evil men, only to eventually make an inevitable break... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: What usually makes Michael Mann such a great director is that he lets his camera do the talking; lingering on melancholy characters struggling with conflicted obsessions so that you can slowly unpick and empathise with their thoughts... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: John Brancato and Michael Ferris' 'The Game,' is a high-concept movie like any other in which a novel narrative idea serves to put a character through their paces and spur a degree of personal change. Specifically, it's about a cold... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: There are a simple set of ingredients that generally make films work - tantalising atmosphere, emotionally-engaging character arcs, thought-provoking themes - but these are things that the Coen Brothers have never been particularly i... Read the full review »