Graham Fuller

Graham Fuller The Arts Desk Sep 10, 2026 5/5 The Death of Robin Hood is a painterly film, but a melancholy rather than a merry one. Go to Full Review The Death of Robin Hood (2026) 69% - -

Graham Fuller Sight & Sound May 14, 2026 Moodily etched by Tobias Datum’s low-lit photography, Frances and Malcolm’s Paris escape is enlivened – and her icy hauteur thawed – by the oddballs who move in with them, including Mme. Go to Full Review French Exit (2020) 65% 42%

Graham Fuller The Arts Desk Feb 25, 2026 5/5 It's a monumental film, a repository and a mausoleum, but vibrant and optimistic for all that. Go to Full Review The Secret Agent (2025) 98% - -

Graham Fuller The Arts Desk Feb 9, 2026 4/5 ...Kristen Stewart’s The Chronology of Water doesn’t flinch from showing the indignities, the messiness, and the trauma-induced choices made by its everywoman protagonist during her rocky journey. Go to Full Review The Chronology of Water (2025) 91% - -

Graham Fuller The Arts Desk Dec 10, 2025 5/5 Twists, shocks, and stabs of gallows humour abound. Go to Full Review It Was Just an Accident (2025) 98% - -

Graham Fuller The Arts Desk Dec 1, 2025 5/5 Like all of Hadžihalilović’s mature films, The Ice Tower prioritises meticulously composed, mystically charged images over exposition, conjuring the painterliness of great silent cinema. Go to Full Review The Ice Tower (2025) 81% - -

Graham Fuller Sight & Sound Nov 11, 2025 The War of the Rohirrim regrettably indulges one of anime’s worst tendencies by eroticising the appearance of its teen heroine. Go to Full Review The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim (2024) 49% - -

Graham Fuller The Arts Desk Sep 30, 2025 5/5 It might be the best Hollywood film of 2025; ahead of next year’s Midterm Elections, nothing can touch it as the movie of the historical moment. Go to Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% - -

Graham Fuller The Arts Desk Aug 11, 2025 4/5 The French-produced The Kingdom, Colonna's fiction feature debut, was shot by Antoine Cormier in the kind of social realist style that makes “gritty” American mob thrillers seem baroque... Go to Full Review Le Royaume (2024) 100% - -

Graham Fuller The Arts Desk Jul 7, 2025 4/5 Shaw brings perverse wit to her portrayal of the self-lacerating Rose. Krieps’s turn as the exasperatingly mercurial Ingrid is consciously self-conscious. Together, the three weave a dark tangled web that’s hard to brush off. Go to Full Review Hot Milk (2025) 39% - -

Graham Fuller The Arts Desk Jun 16, 2025 4/5 Thanks to Posy Sterling’s technically astounding performance – a whirligig of fluctuating, gut-level emotions – audience sympathy with Molly never flags. Go to Full Review Lollipop (2024) 100% - -

Graham Fuller The Arts Desk May 16, 2025 5/5 Good One is a film of surpassing subtlety, not least in terms of the three actors’ body language; the note-perfect Collias is a major discovery. Go to Full Review Good One (2024) 98% - -

Graham Fuller The Arts Desk Apr 4, 2025 3/5 [Jed Hart] demonstrates flair as a visual storyteller, eschewing dialogue in long, atmospheric sequences (including the opener) that propel the narrative. Go to Full Review Restless (2024) 94% - -

Graham Fuller The Arts Desk Apr 2, 2025 5/5 Guiraudie's regular cinematographer, Clare Mathon, endowed Misericordia with a stifling Bergman-esque atmosphere, its murky secret places redolent of Jérémie's psyche. Go to Full Review Misericordia (2024) 94% - -

Graham Fuller The Arts Desk Mar 7, 2025 5/5 [Laura] Carreira is a minimalist with an eye and ear for evocative scenes and moments. Go to Full Review On Falling (2024) 96% - -

Graham Fuller The Arts Desk Nov 1, 2024 3/5 When would it not be timely? It gets its vital message across, despite being an unwieldy epic that forsakes character development for didacticism. Go to Full Review Blitz (2024) 81% - -

Graham Fuller The Arts Desk Oct 3, 2024 3/5 The Old Man and the Land tells a convincing story of a broken family, but the storytelling is infinitely stronger than the images, which become the visual equivalent of background noise. Go to Full Review The Old Man and the Land (2023) - - - -

Graham Fuller The Arts Desk Jul 29, 2024 5/5 Trans writer-director Schoenbrun’s film is an instant classic, a disquieting but non-judgmental post-modern psychothriller about the value and dangers of wholesale immersion in visual media and the complexities of trans self-identification. Go to Full Review I Saw the TV Glow (2024) 85% - -

Graham Fuller The Arts Desk Jul 19, 2024 4/5 Writer-director Pugh doesn’t conceal her rage at the inhumane ways some men treat women. Her movie is laced with delicate visual and aural flourishes rare in earthy, humour-tinged dramas about the travails of working-class women. Go to Full Review Chuck Chuck Baby (2023) 100% - -

Graham Fuller The Arts Desk Apr 2, 2024 4/5 Silver Haze is exemplary in showing how first love is wondrous until it curdles and how young adults learn -- or don’t, at their peril -- to negotiate that disillusionment and make tough decisions. Go to Full Review Silver Haze (2023) 79% - -