Backed by superb performances, particularly from Saoirse Ronan and Florence Pugh, Greta Gerwig’s screen adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel is refreshing, poignant and utterly compelling.
Led by two quite effective leads in Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson, Baumbach’s film about the perils of marriage and the pain of divorce has moments to savour.
Polanski’s greatest accomplishment, and one of the finest American films ever made from the ’70s.
A drama-comedy that tells us painful truths about growing up (and old) through the kind of offbeat comedy that writer-director Noah Baumbach is synonymous with.
A passive character study disguised as a romantic-comedy that feels too laidback for it to work convincingly.
Scorsese delivers another career-high mob film that is quite unlike what he has done before in what could be a strong Best Picture contender.
Has no real narrative impetus and mistakes a laidback filmmaking style for meaning-making, this modern ‘Ganja and Hess’ remake by Spike Lee is a turn-off.
