All articles by Alex Ramon
Benediction: Terence Davies’ Siegfried Sassoon portrait is a film of waning power
Davies’ second consecutive portrait of a poet, with Jack Lowden and Peter Capaldi taking turns as the war veteran, has moments of tender power, but doesn’t reach into the heart of his art.
By Alex Ramon
What to watch at Kinoteka Polish Film Festival 2022
By Alex Ramon
10 great British films about romance across social divides
By Alex Ramon
Pirates is a debut feature from Reggie Yates that revels in 90s nostalgia
By Alex Ramon
A sense of history: Mike Leigh’s period cinema
By Alex Ramon
Where to begin with Małgorzata Szumowska
By Alex Ramon
Uprising looks back to the trauma and fury stoked by the 1981 New Cross Fire
By Alex Ramon
Ultraviolence is a blunt polemic against British police racism
By Alex Ramon
I Am Samuel is a tender look at a gay Kenyan couple’s lives and love
By Alex Ramon
Undergods searches a dystopian city for fragments of male ego
By Alex Ramon
Altman’s fortune: 10 underrated Robert Altman films
By Alex Ramon
Jungle Fever at 30: Spike Lee’s thorny interracial love story
By Alex Ramon
IWOW: I Walk on Water is a sprawling, frustrating New York City symphony
By Alex Ramon
A year of lockdown: the screen culture that got us through it
By Henry Barnes, Whelan Barzey and others
Claire Bloom at 90: a new interview with the veteran of British stage and screen
By Alex Ramon
Cicely Tyson put Black female pride on screen
By Alex Ramon
Blue Sky: the 1990s nuclear drama that won Jessica Lange her second Oscar
By Alex Ramon
One Night in Miami… imagines four legendary Black lives intersecting in 1964
By Alex Ramon
Gingerbread feelings: 30 years of Home Alone
By Alex Ramon and Michał Oleszczyk
Mangrove relays Black British struggles of the past
By Alex Ramon
Destruction and desire: Jeanne Moreau opens the floodgates in Tony Richardson’s Mademoiselle
By Alex Ramon
Summer of ’85 takes us down once more to the shoreline of François Ozon’s youth
By Alex Ramon
Eternal Beauty review: a stylish mental health drama with skin deep insight
By Alex Ramon
Kitchen-sink noir – In praise of heist drama The Good Die Young
By Alex Ramon
Billy Elliot in cowboy boots? Wild Rose is better than that
By Alex Ramon