All articles by Trevor Johnston
Bloodlands dredges up Northern Ireland’s troubled past
Writer Chris Brandon’s four-part crime series provides impressively detailed historical-political context – but subsequently undermines it.
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
Lockdown lessons: Sheffield Doc/Fest director Cíntia Gil on defending the collective experience of cinema
By Trevor Johnston
Hollywood review: Ryan Murphy rewrites post-war Tinseltown history
By Trevor Johnston
Lockdown lessons: 13 UK film industry leaders on coping with Covid
By Isabel Stevens and Trevor Johnston
Calm with Horses is a punchy gangland tragedy from west-country Ireland
By Trevor Johnston
Calm with Horses review: a punchy gangland tragedy from west-country Ireland
By Trevor Johnston
Run review: a small-town Scottish Springsteen dreamer finds nothing but road
By Trevor Johnston
True History of the Kelly Gang review: a whirlwind of class and colonial discontent
By Trevor Johnston
Parasite review: Bong Joon Ho’s masterfully designed crime caper comes laced with satirical venom
By Trevor Johnston
Pink Wall review: post-college relationship blues are laid bare in a fine debut
By Trevor Johnston
Uncut Gems review: the Safdie brothers hit the sweet spot with this manic thrill-ride
By Trevor Johnston
The Report review: Adam Driver uncovers shadowy CIA malpractice
By Trevor Johnston
Sorry We Missed You review: Ken Loach counts the cost of striving in austerity Britain
By Trevor Johnston
Hero review: an engrossing portrait of Trinidadian freedom fighter Ulric Cross
By Trevor Johnston
Holmes and Watson review: a lumbering Sherlockian knockdown
By Trevor Johnston