Mike McCahill

Film: A thriller that brims with heartbreaking detail

World film: A Western for the age of globalisation

Film: This empty violence is a sign of the times

World film: An affecting portrait of ‘the other woman’

Film: Fatalism under dishwater-grey skies

Film: Biopic gives Churchill the pop promo treatment

Film: Watching millionaires pay themselves to have fun

Film: American Pie minus the merry-making

Film: A laughable bout of religion-bashing

Film: Ghostly bank heist offers a low interest rate

The macabre flipside of Downton Abbey

Film: A poignant tale of a wandering ghost

Film: Women going wild – and everyone’s invited

Film: Is this the weirdest God movie ever made?

the initial wave of faith-based movies – those medium-to-low budget dramas boosted by evangelical word of mouth – diminished quickly in the ...

Film: Redgrave’s secret scripture has little to reveal

jim sheridan’s handsome yet flimsy melodrama the secret scripture ( ★★ , cert 12a, 109 mins) turns out to be a tale of two actresses, one gr...

Film: National treasures keep calm and carry on

nostalgia ain’t what it used to be. the spectre of the “well-made british film” – well-cast, well-acted and well-dressed, yet so emotionally...

Film: The Lost City of Z

the true-life figure driving the transporting the lost city of z (15, 141 mins, ★★★★★ ) is percy fawcett (charlie hunnam), a jobbing british...

Film: Critics, relax. This enfant terrible hasn’t sold out

even an enfant terrible must grow up sooner or later. prodigal french-canadian xavier dolan’s trouble is that he’s done so along the cannes ...

Film: A wildly eccentric biopic succumbs to convention

jackie (15, 100 mins, ★★★ ) how does one secure a legacy? the question has assumed renewed prominence in recent months, with a b...