All articles by Philip Kemp
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain puts cats centre stage in a film that’s filled with eccentric charm
Director Will Sharpe proves himself to be one of the UK’s most individual filmmakers with a colourful biopic on Victorian cat artist Louis Wain, played by Benedict Cumberbatch.
By Philip Kemp
Being the Ricardos is a clunky but engaging look behind-the-scenes of 1950s sitcom I Love Lucy
By Philip Kemp
The Story of Film: A New Generation takes viewers on an enriching journey through a decade of cinema
By Philip Kemp
Dune succeeds by avoiding excessive fidelity to the original novel
By Philip Kemp
Frankie takes a siesta in the Portuguese sun
By Philip Kemp
Homeward sends a father and son on a Crimean pilgrimage
By Philip Kemp
Man in Room 301 is a Nordic drama that sees a simmering family feud boil over
By Philip Kemp
Minari puts faith in the verdant fields of a Korean family’s Arkansas farm
By Philip Kemp
The Mauritanian is a frighteningly convincing tale of Guantánamo internment
By Philip Kemp
My Father and Me is a tender snapshot of a working-class photographer’s life
By Philip Kemp
Blithe Spirit unbuttons Noël Coward’s marital farce
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