Barnaby Turner

WHAT I LIKED: Michael Sarnoski's 'Pig' is a film that clearly and masterfully paints the picture of a man as he is now, and then slowly unravels who he used to be. Today, he's a truffle farmer called Robin who doesn't care about anything except h... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: Maggie Gyllenhaal's directorial debut 'The Lost Daughter,' is a masterful character-study that slowly picks away at the layers of a troubled college professor Leda (Olivia Coleman) whilst she's on a summer break in Italy. The film's... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: In any form of storytelling, the point of a plot is generally to create a sequence of events that test or develop characters or real-world themes. Paul Thomas Anderson's 'Licorice Pizza,' depicts a sarcastic 25-year-old girl called A... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: Classic male heroes have always been embodiments of ugly machoism and repressed emotion, so the fact that Jane Campion's 'The Power of The Dog,' serves to broadcast the toll those behaviours take on everyone involved is magnificent.... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: Perhaps the most amazing thing about people is that we make up stories to help us deal with and understand difficult things. No-one does that more than kids though, and Celine Sciamma's 'Petite Maman,' joins the likes of 'The Breadwi... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: Having only seen the first film, I went to see Lana Wachowski's 'The Matrix: Resurrections,' exclusively because some friends were going, and I understood very little of the plot. What I can tell you though is that, like the first on... Read the full review »