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BRIAN

since 2025 › Jan › 23 (Thu) @ 21:31 UTC

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6 days ago

BRIAN VINER: Will Scarlett Johansson be the next victim of The Exorcist curse? ⊖

found 2025 › Nov › 30 (Sun) @ 02:05 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Heads swivelled at last week's news that Scarlett Johansson is to appear in a 'radical' new version of The Exorcist. Mine did, anyway.

8 days ago

BRIAN VINER reviews Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery: Smart, hilarious, gloriously acted... it's the best one yet ⊕

found 2025 › Nov › 28 (Fri) @ 01:05 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

The first Knives Out in 2019 was so much fun that, inevitably, the critical knives came out when its 2022 follow-up, Glass Onion , failed to live up to expectations.

15 days ago

BRIAN VINER reviews Sisu: Road to revenge... it's violent but exhilaratingly bonkers

found 2025 › Nov › 21 (Fri) @ 02:45 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Nobody can ever convince me that predictive text-messaging doesn't have a sense of humour.

17 days ago

BRIAN VINER reviews Christmas Karma: This spectacularly dreadful offering will empty cinemas quicker than an outbreak of dysentery! ⊖

found 2025 › Nov › 19 (Wed) @ 20:50 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Scarcely able to believe how ghastly it was after last week's screening with fellow critics in London, on Tuesday afternoon I went to the Odeon in Hereford to endure it again.

18 days ago

BRIAN VINER reviews Wicked: For Good: Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo are magnificent in this extravagantly sumptuous sequel ⊕

found 2025 › Nov › 18 (Tue) @ 17:30 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Like last year's film, this one is extravagantly sumptuous on the eye.

22 days ago

The 25 best movies of this century, as selected by BRIAN VINER: From blockbusters to little-known gems, discover if your favourite is on the list... and the classics that don't make the cut ⊕⊕

found 2025 › Nov › 14 (Fri) @ 13:05 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

BRIAN ■

We're a quarter of the way through the 21st century, which seems like an appropriate time to list the century's 25 greatest feature films so far.

BRIAN VINER reviews The Running Man: A deadly game of traitors and faithfuls (with a billion dollar prize)

found 2025 › Nov › 14 (Fri) @ 01:45 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

BRIAN VINER: This version of The Running Man is not a straight remake, although there's a wink to the original with big Arnie on the US banknotes known as 'new' dollars.

29 days ago

BRIAN VINER reviews Nicholas Hytner's The Choral: Too many duff notes in this sub-par Alan Bennett comedy - but Ralph Fiennes is on song ⊕

found 2025 › Nov › 07 (Fri) @ 01:05 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

This week's good news is that Alan Bennett, now aged 91, has written a new original screenplay.

42 days ago

Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere review: This is no fun watch, but Jeremy Allen White brings passion and conviction to this bold, intense biopic, says BRIAN VINER ⊕

found 2025 › Oct › 25 (Sat) @ 10:25 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

Jeremy Allen White makes a plausibly tormented Bruce Springsteen, on the cusp both of super-stardom and mental disintegration.

55 days ago

Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley are Oscar-worthy in this heart-wrenching tale of the Shakespeares' loss: BRIAN VINER reviews Hamnet

found 2025 › Oct › 12 (Sun) @ 20:45 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail

The virtues of Hamnet extend far beyond the artistry of its director (also the co-writer, with O'Farrell herself) and the acting of Buckley and Mescal.

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