REVIEW: Conclave [London Film Festival 2024]

What happens when a group of men, sworn to humility, are given the power to elect the Vicar of Christ? Can personal fallibility be kept in check when the stakes are divine?

Conclave, directed by Edward Berger and based on Robert Harris’ novel, explores these questions as Cardinal Thomas Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes) reluctantly presides over the election of a new Pope after the sudden death of the current pontiff.…

REVIEW: Joker: Folie à Deux

2019’s Joker was a comic book movie for people who don’t like comic books. Its newly-released sequel, Joker: Folie à Deux, is both that and a musical for people who don’t particularly like musicals.

I told myself I wasn’t going to be sarcastic, but it’s tough when the director of the film you’re reviewing doesn’t seem to have much of a feel for the genre in which he’s working.…