TWO AND A HALF STARS Andy returns to Runway to write 'serious' articles. Miranda is horrified. DRAMA US English #PRADA2 Starring Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2 is draped in sequins and sparkly couture then stuffed with more celebrity cameos than The Met Gala. Yet it's also weighed down by its own sense of self importance as it trades the sharp bite of the original for something more reflective and, at times, oddly subdued. Twenty years have passed and Mi

THREE AND A HALF STARS A closeted copper is assigned to entrap gay men in shopping centres. Then he meets Andrew. DRAMA US English #PLAINCLOTHES Starring Tom Blyth, Russell Tovey There are films that arrive draped in relevance, and then there are films that arrive carrying history by the scruff of the neck. PLAINCLOTHES does the latter, with enough emotional bruising and romantic tension to remind us that progress is rarely linear and never tidy. Set in upstate New York in th

FOUR STARS The first chapters of Les Misérables but there's no singing when a man imprisoned for kindness finds purpose when finally released from gaol. PERIOD DRAMA FRANCE French #JEANVALJEAN Starring Grégory Gadebois, Bernard Campan If LES MISÉRABLES is the grand, table-groaning banquet of French literature, then JEAN VALJEAN is the entree; thoughtfully plated and undeniably tasteful. Director Éric Besnard zeroes in on the opening stretch of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables, st

FOUR AND A HALF STARS A young man in colonial Algeria is a stranger to everyone who knows him. DRAMA FRANCE French #THESTRANGER Starring Benjamin Voisin, Rebecca Marder With THE STRANGER, director Francois Ozon doesn’t simply revisit Albert Camus’s famously cool slab of existentialism, he turns into something pared back, distilled, faintly accusatory. The result is a film of icy assurance and unnerving beauty, one that feels philosophically aligned. The broad strokes will be

THREE AND A HALF STARS Three stories about the little things not said that makes a family what it is. DRAMA US English #FATHERMOTHERSISTERBROTHER Starring Adam Driver, Cate Blanchett FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER is as wonderfully compelling triptych of family (dis)connection. Three stories in three distinct settings pick at how families work, or don’t; first in a cluttered American cottage (Father), then an uptight British home (Mother), and finally an empty apartment in Pari

THREE AND A HALF STARS The sun is dying and Dr Ryland Grace is sent to save us. Turns out it's a bigger problem than he thought, and he's gonna need a bigger brain. SF DRAMA US English #PROJECTHAILMARY Starring Ryan Gosling, James Oritz There’s a strain of big-budget sci-fi that mistakes noise for awe; PROJECT HAIL MARY isn’t entirely immune, but it’s far more interested in charm than chaos. Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, and adapted from Andy Weir’s novel, th