This week’s big film

“Wonka is a big chocolate Christmas cake of a film, stuffed with sugar, covered in icing and cream with a touch of rum. And a long way from the darkness of Roald Dahl’s book. But that’s all right. Christmas is a time for stuffing yourself with sweetness and light, and that’s all there in Timothée Chalamet’s performance as the young Wonka. And with tons of big screen spectacle, song and dance, lashings of comedy, a hero to root for and villains to boo, this is the perfect Christmas family treat.“

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Chicken Run: Dawn
of the Nugget

Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain

The Peasants

Anselm

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Russell Forgham

MANAGING EDITOR
Former Fleet Street journalist, lifelong film buff and co-founder of Movies1. When he’s not watching films he helps people at Citizens Advice and is an intrepid traveller and has visited every continent in the world – including Antarctica.

Marianne Gray

EDITOR
Former president of the British Critics’ Circle and teaches young filmmakers how to criticise a film for the BFI. She is also a director of Peckhamplex in London and has written biographies of Gerard Depardieu and Jeanne Moreau.

Carol Allen

Carol has been a film critic since 1980 and has contributed to the BBC, LBC, The Times, Cosmopolitan, New Woman, 9-5, Close-Up Film and others. She also teaches drama to older people though her charity Cat’s Whiskers Community Arts.

Rich Cline

A freelance writer, editor and broadcaster, Rich is chair of the London Film Critics’ Circle. Born in Los Angeles, he has lived in London for more than three decades and covers film, theatre and dance for BBC Radio, Shadows on the Wall and other outlets.

Alexa Dalby

A film journalist since 1990, reviewing and interviewing for press and radio. Alexa is especially interested in independent and non-English-language films and is co-editor of a specialist website. She is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic.

Richard Fitzwilliams

Royal commentator, film critic, lecturer and public relations consultant. He has has done over 1,000 TV interviews, written numerous articles and is the weekly film critic for Talk Radio Europe (Spain) and Siren FM (Lincoln University).

Jonathan Hart

Jonathan has worked as a film journalist for Scotland on Sunday, CNN Entertainment in New York and many radio shows. He is the Associate Director of the French Film Festival and has interviewed hundreds of stars.

Matthew Morlai Kamara

Matthew has had a love affair with movies since the 80s. His literary career began writing film reviews weekly for the independent Peckhamplex cinema in London, evolving into a film critic and digital artist.

Karen Krizanovich

Known for her research work on feature films, Karen’s writing has appeared in Wired, The Times, The Guardian and the Daily Telegraph, among others. She is a member of BAFTA, BIFA, BFDG, FIPRESCI and LFCC.

Dennis Leachman

Retired engineer and a movie junkie ever since he saw North by Northwest four times in 1960, just in time for the flowering of the French New Wave, and Ingmar Bergman, Satyajit Ray and all those great names of that time.

William Russell

Former political journalist on the Glasgow Herald and for 24 years the paper’s film critic as well as one of its theatre critics, As well as reviewing films for Movies1 he also reviews theatre for the long-running website Reviewsgate.

Camila E Sotomayor

Trained as an architect and completed her PhD on the subject of material decay, drawing greatly from film-making for references. She is currently writing an illustrated children’s book on climate change and our own ageing.

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