Nimona review – a shapeshifter and a knight join forces in queer science fantasy
Chloë Grace Moretz and Riz Ahmed star in buoyant, good-humoured LGBTQ+ parable from the directors of Spies in Disguise
December 2021
Week in geek
Could Chloë Grace Moretz’s Hit Girl survive another duff Kick-Ass sequel?
Moretz said ‘it would be fun’ to see what Hit Girl is like as an adult. That will only be true if the studio avoids the shallowness of Kick-Ass 2 and returns the saga to its renegade roots
October 2021
The Addams Family 2 review – not ooky, nor kooky, just the smell of a rotting franchise
The sequel is as hopeless as the first feature-length animated Addams Family, an eyeball-achingly bright and manic kids movie
March 2021
Tom & Jerry The Movie review – sanitised relaunch of the cat and mouse combatants
Uninspiring fights and sketchy rules of engagement mean this lazy reprise won’t excite real aficionados of the eternally warring pair
October 2019
The Addams Family review – ooky animation can't find a heartbeat
The latest incarnation of the mysterious and spooky household, from the directors of Sausage Party, is not creepy and not kooky – it’s bland
April 2019
Greta review – effective B-movie madness
Isabelle Huppert’s unhinged central performance lifts Neil Jordan’s solid genre thriller
Chloë Grace Moretz: 'People said: You're going to lose your career over this'
She shot to fame with Kick-Ass, then was almost derailed by a film co-starring Louis CK. Now she’s back with the bold film Greta – and a desire to remain ‘the outspoken girl’
Greta review – Isabelle Huppert gives scary crockery-smashing turn
The French actor plays a widow befriended by Chloë Grace Moretz’s waitress in Neil Jordan’s enjoyably preposterous psychological thriller
October 2018
Where are the scream queens of colour?
Halloween hit the big screen more than 40 years ago but why are the new generation of horror film leads still all white?
September 2018
First look review
Greta review – Isabelle Huppert torments Chloë Grace Moretz in dim-witted thriller
There are flashes of camp pleasure in Neil Jordan’s thin retread of early-90s psycho-thrillers, but they’re mostly lost within a slick mush of cliches
The Miseducation of Cameron Post review – coming-of-age in the glare of prejudice
In Desiree Akhavan’s affecting drama, Chloë Grace Moretz plays an orphaned teenager packed off to a creepy camp for her sexuality to be ‘corrected’
The movie bogeyman of the year? Fundamentalist religion
From The Miseducation of Cameron Post to Apostasy, a new generation of film-makers are railing against the strictures of scripture
August 2018
Why are there so few queer female coming-of-age movies?
Sundance hit The Miseducation of Cameron Post is the first of two films about gay conversion this year and with its unusual female perspective, it might end up as the most important
May 2018
No cape required: your guide to the best alternative films this summer
While the multiplex might be overrun with superheroes, dinosaurs and space cowboys, the season also offers up a set of films untouched by sequelitis
January 2018
Sundance 2018: 'gay conversion' drama wins grand jury prize
The Miseducation of Cameron Post review – prayers answered with conversion therapy drama
September 2017
First look review
I Love You, Daddy review – Louis CK's brazen comedy is a screwball success
The comedian writes, directs and stars in a black and white homage to Woody Allen which tackles button-pushing issues with daring panache
August 2017
Hollywood’s grim century of fat-shaming: from Greta Garbo to Chloë Grace Moretz
Chloë Grace Moretz: I was body-shamed by male co-star when I was 15
June 2017
Chloë Grace Moretz 'appalled and angry' over body-shaming poster
The billboard for the actor’s new animated film Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs has attracted criticism for its beauty standards message
