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Clarisse Loughrey
Clarisse Loughrey is the chief film critic for The Independent. She also co-hosts The Big Screen Book Club and Fade to Black podcasts.
Sydney Sweeney has a camp hit on her hands with The Housemaid
Paul Feig nods to ‘Rebecca’ and ‘Vertigo’ in this pulpy adaptation of the Freida McFadden bestseller, which has a secret weapon in the form of a quite brilliant Amanda Seyfried
A career-best Jennifer Lawrence in the spellbinding Die My Love
Lynne Ramsay’s all-consuming psychodrama captures the feeling of spiralling mental distress, while boasting brilliant supporting performances from Robert Pattinson and Sissy Spacek
A career-best Jennifer Lawrence in the spellbinding Die My Love
Lynne Ramsay’s all-consuming psychodrama captures the feeling of spiralling mental distress, while boasting brilliant supporting performances from Robert Pattinson and Sissy Spacek
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The Lost Bus is a real-life horror story warped by Hollywood
This depiction of the 2018 Camp Fire disaster in Butte County, northern California, wants to be a realistic docu-drama, but it gives its star far too much fictional drama than is needed
The Lost Bus is a real-life horror story warped by Hollywood
This depiction of the 2018 Camp Fire disaster in Butte County, northern California, wants to be a realistic docu-drama, but it gives its star far too much fictional drama than is needed
Together’s married stars make this an icky horror treat with substance
The real-life husband and wife play a fictional couple teetering on the brink of destruction, who then find themselves experiencing a very disgusting conundrum
Together’s married stars make this an icky horror treat with substance
The real-life husband and wife play a fictional couple teetering on the brink of destruction, who then find themselves experiencing a very disgusting conundrum
Brad Pitt vanity project F1 is just a bad version of Top Gun: Maverick
This Lewis Hamilton-produced sports film is a soulless endeavour, and far too infatuated with the near-mythical bravado of Pitt’s racing veteran to really work
Brad Pitt vanity project F1 is just a bad version of Top Gun: Maverick
This Lewis Hamilton-produced sports film is a soulless endeavour, and far too infatuated with the near-mythical bravado of Pitt’s racing veteran to really work
