Author: Stephen Dalton

Veteran Spanish screen icon Pedro Almodóvar delivers more pain than glory in ‘Bitter Christmas’, a semi-autobiographical and gently self-critical but fairly slight late-career drama.

French writer-director Marion Le Corroller’s impressive feature debut ‘Species’ is a blood-soaked sci-fi body-horror thriller loaded with darkly satirical social commentary.

Well crafted but inevitably low on surprises, director Steven Soderbergh’s controversial AI-enhanced documentary ‘John Lennon: The Last Interview’ is based on a familiar radio interview that the legendary ex-Beatle recorded just hours before his murder.