All articles by Philip Kemp
Blithe Spirit unbuttons Noël Coward’s marital farce
A gung ho cast including Judi Dench and Leslie Mann dispense with the suavity (and much of the dialogue) of Coward’s 1940s play and film adaptation, with very broad results.
By Philip Kemp
Let Him Go showcases a battle royale of two matriarch titans
By Philip Kemp
Patrick lays bare grief in a nudist threnody for a missing hammer
By Philip Kemp
Satire with tweezers: Alexander Mackendrick’s The Ladykillers
By Philip Kemp
Koko-di Koko-da review: animals, nursery rhymes and murders
By Philip Kemp
Forgotten treasures of the multiplex
By Ryan Gilbey, Nick James and others
Tenet: Christopher Nolan throws time for a loop
By Philip Kemp
A White, White Day review: grief in the mist
By Philip Kemp
Earl Cameron remembers his debut in Ealing’s Pool of London
By Philip Kemp
The many faces of Federico Fellini – part four: la famiglia Fellini
By Philip Kemp
Mr. Jones review: the horrors of the Holodomor, witnessed by a Welsh reporter
By Philip Kemp
No Fathers in Kashmir review: a deeply felt film about a region blighted by violence
By Philip Kemp
The many faces of Federico Fellini – part one: the neorealist
By Philip Kemp
The Two Popes review: opposites attract in this brilliantly acted tale of papal succession
By Philip Kemp
Permission review: an Iranian woman fights for the right to footie
By Philip Kemp
The Good Liar review: Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen play cat-and-mouse
By Philip Kemp
American Woman review: Sienna Miller breaks through as a bereaved rust-belt mother
By Philip Kemp
The Favourite review: a rich and ribald royal farce
By Philip Kemp
Film of the week: Redoubtable falls out of love with Jean-Luc Godard
By Philip Kemp
Film of the week: Lean on Pete, an intimate teenage oater
By Philip Kemp
Beast review: a fairytale with more than one monster
By Philip Kemp
Film of the week: Unsane is an ingenious iPhone horror
By Philip Kemp
Darkest Hour review: Gary Oldman convinces as Winston Churchill
By Philip Kemp
David Rose obituary: influential producer and founding father of Film4
By Philip Kemp
Film of the week: Hostiles – a typically lush, liberal western
By Philip Kemp
The Muppet Christmas Carol archive review: deconstructed Dickens
By Philip Kemp
Happy Death Day review: an irreverent slasher that bears repeating
By Philip Kemp
Walter Lassally obituary: from British Free Cinema to ‘Walter the Greek’
By Philip Kemp and David Robinson
Film of the week: On Body and Soul finds love in a bloody place
By Philip Kemp