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A hit at Cannes and reportedly the most expensive Korean film of all time, Na Hong-Jin’s new high-energy creature feature may be slightly unstructured but it’s a wild ride, writes Nerve film critic Ellen E Jones
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Director Jane Schoenbrun’s dazzling meta-slasher features lesbian lust, KFC, a spear-wielding killer and Gillian Anderson. What’s not to love, writes Nerve film critic Ellen E Jones
A machine-made movie has premiered at Tribeca and virtual actor Tilly Norwood is about to star in a feature. But if there’s no soul, no emotion, or no attempt at human connection ... who cares? By Ellen E Jones
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Christopher Nolan’s immersive and beautiful retelling of Homer isn’t just an epic story but an epic achievement – a truly five-star film, writes Nerve film critic Ellen E Jones
Karim Aïnouz’s stylish, starry satire about a super-rich family indulges our obsession with the depraved excesses of the wealthy, but it’s no Parasite, writes Nerve film critic Ellen E Jones
A Spielberg alien movie is not to be missed, writes Ellen E Jones – especially when the extraterrestrials might offer an alternative to our fraught political reality
A lifelong Monroe fan, the Nerve’s film critic Ellen E Jones has made a BBC radio series to mark the centenary of the actor’s birth. Here, she imagines the future that might have opened up for a media-savvy artist ‘vastly ahead of her time’
Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel make for a gorgeous, if unlikely, double act as a painter and his assistant in Steven Soderbergh’s generation-gap comedy, writes Nerve film critic Ellen E Jones. But is it art?
Cornish auteur Mark Jenkin’s drama about ghost ships and gentrification, all shot on 16mm film, is eerie, disorienting and his most audience-pleasing film to date, writes Ellen E Jones
The French film-maker, whose new movie, The Stranger, is out next week, talks to Ellen E Jones about stars, politics, Camus and the Cure
John Patton Ford's remake of the Ealing comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets updates the old film for the oligarch era with leading man Glen Powell and some deserving 21st-century victims, writes Nerve film critic Ellen E Jones
The problem with Emerald Fennell’s adaptation is not the mad casting or that it’s unfaithful to the novel; it’s that it isn’t true to the teenage experience of raunchy, reckless first love, writes Nerve film critic Ellen E Jones
British-Nigerian director Akinola Davies Jr's acclaimed debut about an estranged father spending a busy day in Lagos with his sons, is a radiant and moving film about parents and children everywhere, writes Ellen E Jones
Chloé Zhao’s Bard drama with its powerhouse lead performance from Jessie Buckley is hotly tipped for success. But is it just a deluxe version of Shakespeare in Love? writes Ellen E Jones
Timothée Chalamet’s propulsive energy lights up Josh Safdie’s new film about a table tennis hustler who’s on his way to the top, writes Ellen E Jones
The extraordinary new film by dissident Iranian auteur Jafar Panahi is a thriller, a fable about state repression and a road movie all at once, writes Nerve film critic Ellen E Jones
No longer dreaming of playing Bond, today’s group of young British and Irish actors are fun, reflective and helping to redefine masculinity. I'm all for it, says Nerve film critic Ellen E Jones
Lynne Ramsay’s film, featuring a career-best performance from Jennifer Lawrence as an isolated young mother losing her mind, is about much more than hormones and ‘mom guilt’, writes Ellen E Jones
In the age of streaming and social media, big Hollywood music bios like Scott Cooper’s hymn to the Boss feel increasingly old-fashioned, writes Ellen E Jones
Film critic Ellen E Jones on Dwayne Johnson as real-life wrestler Mark Kerr in Benny Safdie's elevated fight flick
