All articles by Alex Ramon

A sense of history: Mike Leigh’s period cinema

Where to begin with Małgorzata Szumowska

Uprising looks back to the trauma and fury stoked by the 1981 New Cross Fire

Earl Cameron: 10 essential performances

Ultraviolence is a blunt polemic against British police racism

I Am Samuel is a tender look at a gay Kenyan couple’s lives and love

Undergods searches a dystopian city for fragments of male ego

Altman’s fortune: 10 underrated Robert Altman films

Jungle Fever at 30: Spike Lee’s thorny interracial love story

IWOW: I Walk on Water is a sprawling, frustrating New York City symphony

A year of lockdown: the screen culture that got us through it

Claire Bloom at 90: a new interview with the veteran of British stage and screen

Cicely Tyson put Black female pride on screen

Blue Sky: the 1990s nuclear drama that won Jessica Lange her second Oscar

One Night in Miami… imagines four legendary Black lives intersecting in 1964

Gingerbread feelings: 30 years of Home Alone

Mangrove relays Black British struggles of the past

Destruction and desire: Jeanne Moreau opens the floodgates in Tony Richardson’s Mademoiselle

Summer of ’85 takes us down once more to the shoreline of François Ozon’s youth

Eternal Beauty review: a stylish mental health drama with skin deep insight

Kitchen-sink noir – In praise of heist drama The Good Die Young

Female firsts: four debut features by women at London Film Festival 2018

Billy Elliot in cowboy boots? Wild Rose is better than that