Barnaby Turner

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 »

WHAT I LIKED: Steven Levenson and Lin Manuel Miranda's cinematic adaptation of Jonathan Larson's autobiographical 'Tick, Tick... Boom!' is a musical built on so many narrative fourth-wall breaks that it's a wonder it doesn't completely collapse un... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: Robert Zemeckis' 'Back to the Future,' is one of many great high-concept movies to come out of the 1980s that throws up all kind of brilliant and hilarious scenarios. As is so often the case, it follows a teenage boy (Michael J. Fox... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: In many ways, classic, purebred musicals like Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins' 'West Side Story,' are rather close in language to silent era movies, as everything in them is portrayed through extremely overt, theatrical physicality. O... Read the full review »

Spider-Man: No Way Home takes its potentially bewildering multiverse concept and puts it to the perfect use; testing and helping a character deal with their struggles in new and exciting ways. If that’s what Marvel continue to do as their univer... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: The best thing about Todd Phillips' 'The Hangover,' is how much you get a sense that the central characters really are a ragtag group of friends ditching their responsibilities for a stag-do night of unknown possibilities. That's lar... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: When 'Nativity,' starts, it appears to be perhaps the most glib and awkward attempt at a Christmas love story you've ever seen. A failed actor teaching primary school kids called Mr Maddens (Martin Freeman) reluctantly has to put on... Read the full review »