Superman’s new mission: to make the world “a bit nicer”
Might Lex Luthor be Elon Musk? Could Boravia be Russia? Or is it Israel? The latest DC superhero reboot isn’t…
By David Sexton
Reviewing politics
and culture since 1913
Fabrications and fabricators always find their marks.
By David SextonFifty years after it flopped at the box office, Stanley Kubrick’s 18th-century epic is now recognised as an outright masterpiece.
By David SextonThe seventh iteration of the dinosaur franchise leaves viewers feeling stupider and sadder the longer it goes on.
By Leaf ArbuthnotThe lessons an intimacy coordinator is teaching the film industry about real sex apply off screen and on.
By Kate MossmanDanny Boyle’s beloved horror franchise is back, in scary and frenetic form.
By David SextonJohn Maclean’s revenge thriller Tornado showcases for Scotland’s beautiful landscape, but the film has little to say.
By Leaf ArbuthnotJane Austen Wrecked My Life is too saccharine to reverse the slow death of the romcom.
By David Sexton