All articles by Trevor Johnston
Escape from Mogadishu blends a blockbuster production with a diplomatic history lesson
Ryoo Seung-wan proves his action movie credentials once again with this true story of a group of North and South Korean diplomats who broke out of the war-torn Somalian capital in 1991.
By Trevor Johnston
Belfast is Kenneth Branagh’s flawed but moving portrait of the Troubles
By Trevor Johnston
Where to begin with François Truffaut
By Trevor Johnston
Hellbound challenges ideas about faith and free will in six harrowing episodes
By Trevor Johnston
Gagarine blasts a crumbling French housing estate into orbit
By Trevor Johnston
The Storms of Jeremy Thomas is a perfect primer for the producer’s portfolio
By Trevor Johnston
Maeve is a startlingly radical Irish experiment ripe for rediscovery
By Trevor Johnston
Halston charts the rise and fall of an American fashion icon
By Trevor Johnston
Henry Glassie: Field Work finds humanity in folk art
By Trevor Johnston
Bloodlands dredges up Northern Ireland’s troubled past
By Trevor Johnston
The Drifters is a stylish road movie cramped by little England
By Trevor Johnston
The Dissident traces a detailed portrait of Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination
By Trevor Johnston
News of the World is a plodding fable of the reconstruction
By Trevor Johnston
Remake/remodel: 45 weird and wonderful alternative film cuts
By James Bell, Tom Charity and others
The Serpent is a heady 1970s-set portrait of a globetrotting playboy killer
By Trevor Johnston
Mayor carefully undercuts received notions about contemporary Palestine
By Trevor Johnston
County Lines is fresh British drama that crosses new cinematic borders
By Trevor Johnston
Collective takes a scalpel to the contagion of corruption
By Trevor Johnston
Hillbilly Elegy is white trash for tourists
By Trevor Johnston
Away review: more science and less soap would make this space opera soar
By Trevor Johnston
Real review: rebuilding Black lives in Portsmouth
By Trevor Johnston
I’m Thinking of Ending Things: Charlie Kaufman’s new nightmare surpasses all expectations
By Trevor Johnston
Forgotten treasures of the multiplex
By Ryan Gilbey, Nick James and others
The Invincibles (director’s cut) review: the rebirth of a paranoid policier
By Trevor Johnston