All articles by Trevor Johnston

10 great river films

Belfast is Kenneth Branagh’s flawed but moving portrait of the Troubles

10 great audio-centric films

Where to begin with François Truffaut

Hellbound challenges ideas about faith and free will in six harrowing episodes

Gagarine blasts a crumbling French housing estate into orbit

10 great King Arthur films

10 great private eye films

The Storms of Jeremy Thomas is a perfect primer for the producer’s portfolio

Maeve is a startlingly radical Irish experiment ripe for rediscovery

10 great country music films

Halston charts the rise and fall of an American fashion icon

Henry Glassie: Field Work finds humanity in folk art

Bloodlands dredges up Northern Ireland’s troubled past

The Drifters is a stylish road movie cramped by little England

The Dissident traces a detailed portrait of Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination

News of the World is a plodding fable of the reconstruction

Remake/remodel: 45 weird and wonderful alternative film cuts

The Serpent is a heady 1970s-set portrait of a globetrotting playboy killer

Mayor carefully undercuts received notions about contemporary Palestine

County Lines is fresh British drama that crosses new cinematic borders

Collective takes a scalpel to the contagion of corruption

Hillbilly Elegy is white trash for tourists

Away review: more science and less soap would make this space opera soar

Real review: rebuilding Black lives in Portsmouth

I’m Thinking of Ending Things: Charlie Kaufman’s new nightmare surpasses all expectations

Forgotten treasures of the multiplex

The Invincibles (director’s cut) review: the rebirth of a paranoid policier