All articles by Caspar Salmon
Allelujah: a woolly, wobbly Alan Bennett adaptation
This paean to the NHS undoubtedly means well, but thanks to its weak narrative and ostensible lack of interest in exploring its characters deeply, it simply fails to land.
By Caspar Salmon
More Than Ever: Vicky Krieps faces down mortality in a Norwegian idyll
By Caspar Salmon
Clara Sola: a sensuous portrait of stifled womanhood
By Caspar Salmon
SAS Rogue Heroes: wartime daredevilry somehow made tedious
By Caspar Salmon
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris: a daft, starry-eyed reverie
By Caspar Salmon
The Origin of Evil: nothing is as it seems
By Caspar Salmon
Blue Jean: an intriguingly slippery queer drama
By Caspar Salmon
Mother and Son: a deceptively simple, finely written immigrant drama
By Caspar Salmon
Godland finds nothing but beauty on a young priest’s mission to the far side of Iceland
By Caspar Salmon
Succession returns for a third season with another spectacular Roy family feud
By Caspar Salmon
Întregalde drags bickering charity workers kicking and screaming through the mud
By Caspar Salmon
Ahed’s Knee bristles with a filmmaker’s fury against Israeli censorship
By Caspar Salmon
Oleg is a shrewd, funny, bracing account of an immigrant worker’s life
By Caspar Salmon
Young Ahmed review: the Dardennes ponder the riddle of radicalisation
By Caspar Salmon
The best TV series of 2019
By James Bell, Isabel Stevens and others
Beanpole first look: life, and beauty, persist after the siege of Leningrad
By Caspar Salmon
What should have won the 2019 Cannes Palme d’Or?
By Isabel Stevens, Nick James and others
Deerskin first look: Jean Dujardin seeks one jacket to rule them all
By Caspar Salmon
A Violent Desire for Joy first look: a monk embraces the French revolutionary spirit
By Caspar Salmon
Capernaüm first look: a potent indictment of a 12-year-old’s scraps of life
By Caspar Salmon
120 Beats per Minute (BPM) review: queer lives honoured
By Caspar Salmon
When did French comedies become so reactionary?
By Caspar Salmon