Big Game (12A)
Aubrey Malone
Uplifting tale of father-son hardship in South America
It’s nice to have classics in any art form but also refreshing to supplant them. Barbara Pym used to say that she read Jane Austen in the hope that “some of her genius might rub off on me”. But Philip Larkin (an old booster of Pym’s) famously remarked: “I’d prefer to pick up a new Pym…
The lost boys, the girl and the ‘good lie’ of Sudan
The Good Lie (12A)
A metaphorical tale of regeneration
A Little Chaos (G)
Recapturing one’s youth with strings attached
When We’re Young (15A)
Puns, slapstick and an inconsequential plot
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (G)
Great war film but only for those with nerves of steel
Kajaki (16)
Julianne is Moore heart-breaking than ever before
Still Alice (12A)
A loss of focus as ‘fun’ replaces thrill for the cheap shots
Focus (15A)
Fear stalks the teenagers of leafy suburbia
It Follows (16)