Thomas Messner

‘Anora’ Review: Fast, Funny and Slightly Shallow Following on from his forensic analysis of grifting in small-town Texas in Red Rocket (2021), director Sean […]

'Longlegs' Review: Menacing Yet Mannered Horror Following on from an ingenious marketing campaign, the year’s buzziest horror has arrived with its eye on the p […]

'Sasquatch Sunset' Review: Environmental Optimism Against The Odds An inevitability with the Zellner brothers’ latest, perhaps even an encouragement, is that one’s mind dri […]

'Civil War' Review: Self-Reflective Yet Evasive ★★★☆☆ One is hard pressed to believe that many in the audience for an ostensibly anti-war film would req […]

'Dune: Part Two' Review: Substance Catches Up To Style in Compelling Sequel In its baroque, near-Biblical beauty, the second entry in Denis Villeneueve’s space opera commits so fully t […]

BFI London Film Festival: Killers of the Flower Moon Review “Father, how could Jesus love a wretch like this?” ★★★★☆ So Andrew Garfield’s battered Jesuit ponders […]

BFI London Film Festival: Priscilla Review When one attempts to picture a quintessential image to represent Sofia Coppola’s filmography, multiple o […]

To Think or to Feel: 'The Effect' at the National Theatre- Review ★★★✰✰ The most immediately striking thing is not the stage – a bare, antiseptic square adorned with two […]

Felled by Presentiment: 'Hamnet' review ★★★✰✰ On the face of it, Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet is an adaptation of idle yet irresistible speculation. […]

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“Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone.”

Indeed, in Neil Bartlett and Michael Grandage’s new adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s classic […]

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The stage brightens to reveal a woman, blanketed and couch-bound, gazing forlornly into her television set.  Were it not for the disturbance that sets the ensuing drama in motion, one imagines she’d rema […]

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It’s the kind of unplanned moment only theatre can allow for; the kind that momentarily erodes the boundary between performer and audience to create a team effort. In Walking With Ghosts, Gabriel Byr […]