Search: Starring Marion Cotillard

I could not have wished for a more perfect first film to wean me back into the in-cinema press screening world I left behind in March 2020.

Another sumptuously realised and animated film that will be creeping onto lists of “films you probably haven’t seen” in a decade or so.

This film is not worth seeing. The costumes, special effects and a brilliant cast can't save it.

Desplechin fires off too many salvoes which hit wide of the mark

There is a distinct lack of energy and focus especially for the first hour, when nothing much happens.

One can't help but think that there's a great film in there struggling to get out.

Cotillard's face oscillates mysteriously between the past depicted on the screen and a woman of the present who tries to understand.

Crowe's too substantial a lead man to fit into these Hugh Grant-ish shoes.

Cotillard is at her very best as a character we see only from the sidelines – earthy and opinionated in flashes, yet frozen by her art.

You will no doubt need to see Inception more than once to appreciate every nuance of Nolan's carefully balanced ambiguities – but, more importantly, you will also want to.

The writer-director takes great enjoyment in playing around with his various obsessions.

How does Ismael have the derring-do to believe that all these women are there, like a bouquet, for him to choose from? He is an artist, of course, who creates his own reality.

A dark, dreamlike fantasy.

The histrionics on display submerge everything else while the narrative pitch throws so much at the spectator that it is impossible to sympathise with anyone.

Mark Osborne's gently unfolding palimpsest of a film is a sweet tribute to generations of readers who have been enchanted by the prince.

Winslet performance holds a powerful sway, embracing Lee’s abrasive and conflicted personality and viewing the horrors with an analytical eye and a sense of bravado as well as despair.

Kurzel helps to put his two actors at the top of their game.

For some, Midnight In Paris will be first love; for others, a delicious encounter with an old flame.

It reminds me of a series of auditions where actresses, lighting experts, choreographers and so on, all demonstrate their impeccable skills. What is totally lacking is any semblance of a film upon which to apply them.

Johnny Depp has rarely been better.

Rust And Bone is the rarest of cinematic delights - poignant, provocative and profoundly visceral.

What's really spectacular is not the functional script but the tremendous action set pieces.

The story dies of neglect.

Marion Cotillard tenderly lets us in on every nuance of dread, every vital decision.

A miniature masterpiece.

Above all, the film leaves you with the understanding that this woman’s life could not have been lived any other way.