Ella Kemp

Ella Kemp Empire Magazine Oct 18, 2024 3/5 Woman Of The Hour isn’t the serial-killer thriller you’d expect, but more noble for it. Kendrick shows promise as a director, her lacklustre male antagonist hammering home this film’s purpose. Go to Full Review Woman of the Hour (2023) 91% - -

Ella Kemp Empire Magazine Sep 5, 2024 3/5 Page shines bright in an otherwise formulaic story, but this is still a thoughtful, sensitive portrait of a young man coming to terms with his sense of self and the love he deserves. Go to Full Review Close to You (2023) 68% - -

Ella Kemp Empire Magazine Jul 8, 2024 3/5 A compelling if formulaic star-crossed lovers’ narrative. Come for a wordless seduction, stay for the complexities of parenthood, drag queens and family loyalties that deserve more of your time. Go to Full Review Unicorns (2023) 78% - -

Ella Kemp Empire Magazine Apr 29, 2024 4/5 Deceptively courageous and perceptive on parasocial celebrity culture — and on the fallacy that women have expiration dates — The Idea Of You has good, clean fun with two characters it’s impossible not to love. Go to Full Review The Idea of You (2024) 81% - -

Ella Kemp Empire Magazine Feb 7, 2024 3/5 These teens may be a bit messy (who isn’t?) but it’s a joy to have Diablo Cody back to telegraph a new kind of adolescent horror, with a smile full of teeth. Go to Full Review Lisa Frankenstein (2024) 52% - -

Ella Kemp Empire Magazine Nov 10, 2023 4/5 Scrapper refuses to be pigeonholed as another dreary story about working-class life. Grief has hope, youth holds the keys to everything. Go to Full Review Scrapper (2023) 94% 83%

Ella Kemp Empire Magazine Nov 10, 2023 4/5 A spunky, spiky action comedy that lives on the charisma of its leading ladies and the innovative spirit of director Nida Manzoor. Sisterhood is eternal; weird movies must be protected at all costs. Go to Full Review Polite Society (2023) 91% 84%

Ella Kemp Empire Magazine Nov 3, 2023 4/5 Fingernails is funny until it’s not: deeply romantic from the top of your head to the end of your fingernails. Go to Full Review Fingernails (2023) 60% 42%

Ella Kemp Empire Magazine Oct 19, 2023 3/5 An emotional, if familiar, take on loyalty and technology in a world where love and survival feel near-impossible. Reid’s writing shines and there’s nobody better than Mescal and Ronan to broadcast heartbreak. Go to Full Review Foe (2023) 25% 56%

Ella Kemp London Evening Standard Oct 16, 2023 4/5 The End We Start From explores more than motherhood at the end of the world, its subject is every nuance of womanhood at any stage of life. Go to Full Review The End We Start From (2023) 89% - -

Ella Kemp London Evening Standard Oct 13, 2023 2/5 ... This is little more than a checklist of themes – Grief! Faith! Feminism! Family! – standing in for any true complexity. Go to Full Review The Miracle Club (2023) 68% 83%

Ella Kemp London Evening Standard Oct 13, 2023 3/5 Deacon feels his way through a messy string of what might work nicely as sketch vignettes instead of an actual feature –but if you know who and what you’re in for as you part with your cash at the ticket counter, it’s hard to not crack at least one smile. Go to Full Review Sumotherhood (2023) 38% - -

Ella Kemp London Evening Standard Sep 30, 2023 4/5 It’s in service of the dizzying adventure of a story, undoubtedly wrestling with class and deception as much as desire and the plain silliness of youth. It’s all there, but one of the greatest pleasures of Saltburn is just being invited to the party. Go to Full Review Saltburn (2023) 72% 79%

Ella Kemp London Evening Standard Aug 19, 2023 3/5 Strays might be best enjoyed as a surface-level romp that lets these genuinely sweet dogs run wild, but falters when you try and take seriously its adult intentions. Go to Full Review Strays (2023) 54% 69%

Ella Kemp London Evening Standard Aug 19, 2023 4/5 Angel Manuel Soto's film gives space to the post-teen panic of having no clue what you're doing – shooting that feeling into the stratosphere with the responsibility of becoming a history-making superhero. Go to Full Review Blue Beetle (2023) 78% 40%

Ella Kemp IndieWire May 20, 2023 B+ What Thornton is striving toward, an embrace of generosity, of humanity being able to change what faith and religion even mean, is often moving. Go to Full Review The New Boy (2023) 77% - -

Ella Kemp Little White Lies May 2, 2023 4/5 This one will stand the test of time: knotty, electric, powerful, soul-searching. Go to Full Review Return to Seoul (2022) 97% 93%

Ella Kemp Empire Magazine Mar 1, 2023 4/5 Despite a hugely harrowing storyline, Close somehow musters the strength to take care of its audience and leave us with something beautiful and brave. Go to Full Review Close (2022) 90% 88%

Ella Kemp Empire Magazine Feb 8, 2023 2/5 The film plays more like a Working Title rom-com than a seductive, explosive picture that gives women what they want. Go to Full Review Magic Mike's Last Dance (2023) 48% 73%

Ella Kemp Empire Magazine Jan 23, 2023 5/5 More than a glimpse into a photographer's work, All The Beauty cuts to the bone with its incandescent celebration of life and condemnation of those who threaten it. Art and activism are one and the same. Go to Full Review All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022) 95% 62%