YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE is a tyrannically taut film that often feels like a 90-minute heart attack. The idea that any film – even one of Ramsay’s own – could make WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN seem relaxed is absurd, yet here it is.
ISLE OF DOGS doesn’t quite scale Wes Anderson’s recent heights, this engaging stop motion animation and Bryan Cranston’s performance are an absolute joy. Jim Ross reviews at Glasgow Film Festival 2018.
Rather than abundant acreage, there are only sparse stretches. Jim Ross reviews at Glasgow Film Festival.
THE DIVINE ORDER is an enjoyable tale of personal progress mirroring society, despite numerous shortcomings. Jim Ross reviews at Glasgow Film Festival 2018.
WESTERN conjures an atmosphere and intensity which seeps into every inch of Valeska Grisebach’s film. Jim Ross reviews at Glasgow Film Festival 2018.
TAKE ONE Awards for the calendar year 2017.
Although beautiful, Terrence Malick’s ethereal and dreamlike approach to storytelling may finally be wearing a little thin, gripes Jim Ross at the Edinburgh Film Festival.
A QUIET HEART weaves an engaging personal tale into a landscape of religious tension, writes Jim Ross from Edinburgh Film Festival.
A film that presses on raw nerve endings, Jim Ross reviews the story of a man coming to terms with childhood abuse, boasting perhaps Orlando Bloom’s paramount performance.
By placing her faith in her own direction and characters, and not plot histrionics, Katherine Dieckmann’s intensely personal story feels all the more universal, writes Jim Ross at Edinburgh Film Festival.
