Blue Moon \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606\u2606<\/p>\n
Directed by Richard Linklater. Starring Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, Andrew Scott, Simon Delaney, Patrick Kennedy, David Rawle. 15A cert, gen release, 100 min<\/p>\n
Hawke plays Lorenz \u201cLarry\u201d Hart \u2013 the brilliant, self-destructive lyricist behind My Funny Valentine, Bewitched and the wistful song of the title \u2013 and he does so with extraordinary commitment: wide-eyed, jittery, enthralled, embittered and heartbreakingly exposed. The film finds him boozing in Sardi\u2019s while the premiere of Oklahoma!, by Oscar Hammerstein (Delaney, bullish) and Hart\u2019s old collaborator Richard Rodgers (Scott, weary), plays to hurrahs nearby. It\u2019s the kind of turn that should anchor a film. Instead, it\u2019s upstaged by Linklater\u2019s obsessive attempts to shrink his leading man to Hart\u2019s purported sub-5ft stature. There should have been another way. Full review<\/a> TB <\/p>\n The Ice Tower \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605<\/p>\n Directed by Lucile Hadzihalilovic. Starring Marion Cotillard, Clara Pacini, August Diehl, Gaspar No\u00e9, Marine Gesbert. No cert, limited release, 118 min<\/p>\n Jeanne (impressive newcomer Pacini), flees her mountain orphanage and drifts toward a film studio shooting a version of The Snow Queen with one Cristina (given froideur by Cotillard) in the lead. Mistaken for an extra, she is quickly absorbed into the production\u2019s dream logic, where boundaries between reality, fantasy and performance scarcely hold. Hadzihalilovic\u2019s latest is a cool, exacting reverie: a 1970s period piece, replete with skating girls and brutalist architecture, and a cinematic snow globe refracting Hans Christian Andersen\u2019s oddest tale. Full review<\/a> TB<\/p>\n Christy \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606\u2606<\/p>\n Directed by David Mich\u00f4d. Starring Sydney Sweeney, Ben Foster, Merritt Wever, Katy O\u2019Brian, Ethan Embry, Jess Gabor, Chad Coleman, Bryan Hibbard. 15A cert, gen release, 135 min <\/p>\n Straight-down-the-line biopic of Christy Martin, the boxer who transformed the woman\u2019s game in the US. Begrudgers, pushing back at Sweeney\u2019s sudden fame, have made much of the film\u2019s box-office underperformance, but few could find realistic fault in her performance. Bulked up to pocket dynamo, Sweeney is convincing as a middleweight with a heavyweight\u2019s piledriver punch. The boxing sequences don\u2019t exactly strive for documentary realism, but they effectively convey the momentum behind each jaw-shattering blow. Elsewhere, she convincingly conveys the desperation of a woman running a gauntlet of domestic cruelty. Full review<\/a> DC<\/p>\n Pillion \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606<\/p>\n Directed by Harry Lighton. Starring Alexander Skarsgard, Harry Melling, Douglas Hodge, Lesley Sharp, Jake Shears, Anthony Welsh. 18 cert, gen release, 107 min<\/p>\n Fascinating, disarming dramedy about a shy young man (Melling) who becomes sexual submissive to a handsome biker (Skarsgard). Pillion is a degree cosier and sweeter than this synopsis suggests. It\u2019s as if Norman Wisdom had stumbled among gay motorcyclists and, remaining himself, decided to act as plaything for the tallest of their tribe. The film is gently interrogative of the boys\u2019 lifestyle. It is meant to be awkwardly funny when Colin\u2019s nice mum (Sharp), who has cancer, tells Ray off for mistreating her son, but she is expressing reasonable confusion at what she sees. Full review<\/a> DC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blue Moon \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606\u2606 Directed by Richard Linklater. 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