Barnaby Turner

Bob Marley: One Love may not be a full-bodied depiction of the truth, but as a piece of storytelling, it doesn’t need to be. The truths it reveals are about a character reconciling their ideals with their reality, and that universal arc and them... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: Saim Sadiq's Joyland isn't just a seminal Pakistani film because it was the first from the country to be entered at Cannes and shortlisted at The Oscars. It's also because, revolving around a working-class family who live together in... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: Justine Triet's 'Anatomy of a Fall,' follows the murder trial of a writer called Sandra (Sandra Huller) after her husband dies at their home in the French Alps with only the pair's blind son (Milo Machado-Graner) as a witness. Mainly... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: Kristoffer Borgli's 'Dream Scenario,' is about an ordinary professor called Paul (Nic Cage) who starts turning up in lots of people's dreams. At first it brings him joy and fame as his family are excited by it, students start noticin... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: 'Luca,' is a lovely animation about two outcast young boys making their dreams a reality and becoming accepted in the world. Specifically, they're mermaids who dream of a life of the surface, but everyone in the little Cinque Terre... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: In an amusing parallel to the recent 'Barbie,' movie, Yorgos Lanthimos and Tony McNamara's 'Poor Things,' is a film about a woman with a child's brain encountering the complex world of sex, money and society for the first time. Th... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: Lucinda Coxon and James Hawes' 'One Life,' follows the true story of Nicholas Winton and a small team of Brits rescuing hundreds of Czech children from Hitler's invasion. It cuts between Winton as an old man who is haunted by the chi... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: Whether their subjects are real or imaginary, the most engaging character stories expose a person for you to empathise with, and give them an arc to test them into some kind of change. Sofia Coppola's 'Priscilla,' does both of those... Read the full review »