We’re only halfway through 2023, and the year has already delivered some cinematic stunners (and clunkers), with plenty more to come.
Before the fall festival season starts and the Oscar chatter gets going once again, these are the already-released 2023 films you should cross off your watchlist if you haven’t already.
NB: Todd Field's stunning psychological character study, Tár, or: 'Portrait of a Lady Being Cancelled’, has not been included as we’ve already waxed lyrical on how great it is and how Cate Blanchett’s career-best performance should not have been ignored by the Academy. It feels like a 2022 film at this point, and it's time to give some love to the newbies...
Adapted from her play ‘Is This A Room’, Tina Satter’s Reality is a bone-rattling snapshot of recent US history in the shape of a tense chamber piece. The first-time feature director used unedited original dialogue from FBI recordings and transcripts to re-enact the arrest of 25-year-old NSA contractor-turned-whistleblower Reality Winner (played to perfection by Euphoria’s Sydney Sweeney). The unbelievably named former Air Force linguist printed out classified documents about Russian interference in the 2016 US election and mailed it to the newsroom of The Intercept. She was arrested in 2017 when FBI agents paid her a visit at her home in Georgia, and was given the longest prison sentence ever imposed for an unauthorized release of government information to the media: five years and three...
CHESHIRE Police says that it has arrested a Warrington woman on suspicion of wasting police time after resources from two police forces were diverted to ‘false kidnap claims’. In the early hours o...