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By Will Hutton
Saturday, 25 April 2020
First, there were the court cases, which he won, god knows how, when the accused had been caught holding the …
Continue reading "The Nabob of Chipping Dean"
By Will Hutton
Saturday, 8 February 2020
In director Robert Eggers assured debut, “The Witch” (2015), a family of god-fearing Calvinists set up shop on the edge …
Continue reading "The Lighthouse review – a phantasmagoria of images and sounds"
By Will Hutton
Saturday, 1 February 2020
Harold Ratner, the luckless protagonist of the Safdie Brothers’ new film, inspires devotion. Such devotion, in fact, that his girlfriend …
Continue reading "Uncut Gems review – exhilarating cavalcade through New York’s Diamond District"
By Will Hutton
Saturday, 18 January 2020
In director Sam Mendes’ new film “time is the enemy”, or so its publicity billboards suggest. To the mix, I …
Continue reading "1917 review – a thrilling, if absurd, journey into hell"
By Will Hutton
Saturday, 30 November 2019
A short way into Ben Lerner’s new novel, The Topeka School, Jonathan, a therapist at the Topeka “Foundation”, and one …
Continue reading "Lerner brings poetry to the page"
By Will Hutton
Saturday, 16 November 2019
What happens when you grow old? That’s the question lingering in the nursing home in which Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran …
Continue reading "The Irishman is a worthy coda to Scorsese’s gangster genre"
By Will Hutton
Saturday, 26 October 2019
For bibliophiles, Olivier Assayas’ new film is more aetiology than entertainment – despite its blithe marketing to the contrary. Aspiring …
Continue reading "Non-Fiction review – nothing much happens in this publishing drama"
By Will Hutton
Friday, 16 August 2019
Quentin Tarantino doesn’t like hippies. And it is easy to see why: middle-class runaways swiping credit cards from unsuspecting folk …
Continue reading "Nowhere left to go for Hollywood’s aging Boy Wonder"
By Will Hutton
