Barnaby Turner

WHAT I LIKED: Every now and then, a character will say something in a film that just so happens to capture exactly what the audience are thinking. Right at the start of 'Baywatch,' Zac Efron quite sincerely asks "are you serious right now?" These... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: 'Public Enemies,' has a script primarily concerned with the bare bones of its plot, but what makes it engaging to watch is that it's all delivered by Michael Mann - a director who has shown time and time again that he cares most of a... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: Darius Marder's 'Sound of Metal,' is a beautiful character-study about a metal drummer called Ruben (Riz Ahmed) who uses his life on the road, his music, and his care for unstable girlfriend and bandmate Lou (Olivia Cooke) to ignore... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: Mafia movies like Scorsese's Vegas-based 'Casino,' follow characters hooked by the lure and hope of a clearly poisonous world. At their best ('Goodfellas,' 'Donnie Brasco,') they delve into the conflict of conscience that occurs with... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: 'Page Eight,' was a Le Carré-esque espionage movie about trusting the personal over the political, and this sequel 'Turks & Caicos,' is a film mostly about the victims left behind by the game that we all know so well. We find Worric... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: John Hughes' 'The Breakfast Club,' is an insanely smart character study that places five wildly different teens in a detention and has them slowly unravel and understand each other in front of us. They begin as strangers; a recluse,... Read the full review »

WHAT I LIKED: Earlier in his career, you might have been forgiven for calling Scorsese a fairly naturalistic filmmaker. In pictures like 'Raging Bull,' he generally left his camera moving at a relative distance from his characters; letting them li... Read the full review »