Connor May, Author at Movie Marker https://www.moviemarker.co.uk/author/connor-may/ Award Winning Movie Reviews & News Thu, 06 Nov 2025 19:16:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://www.moviemarker.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/cropped-11825547_871819026233149_6161467757169643488_n-11-80x80.jpg Connor May, Author at Movie Marker https://www.moviemarker.co.uk/author/connor-may/ 32 32 London Film Festival 2025 – The Love That Remains ★★★★★ https://www.moviemarker.co.uk/london-film-festival-2025-the-love-that-remains-%e2%98%85%e2%98%85%e2%98%85%e2%98%85%e2%98%85/ Thu, 16 Oct 2025 21:13:09 +0000 https://www.moviemarker.co.uk/?p=93134 Released: TBC (London Film Festival) Director: Hylnur Pálmason Starring: Saga Garðarsdóttir, Sverrir Gudnason, Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir, IngvarSigurdsson, Grímur Hlynsson, Þorgils Hlynsson & Panda Hylnur Pálmason’s The Love That Remains is a majestic, tender distillment of a year in the life of a family navigating divorce. Pálmason, the directorial virtuoso behind A White, White Day and […]

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]]> London Film Festival 2025 – Alpha ★★★★ https://www.moviemarker.co.uk/london-film-festival-2025-alpha-%e2%98%85%e2%98%85%e2%98%85%e2%98%85/ Thu, 16 Oct 2025 19:50:32 +0000 https://www.moviemarker.co.uk/?p=93104 Released: 14th November 2025 (UK) Director: Julia Ducournau Starring: Mélissa Boros, Golshifteh Farahani, Tahar Rahim & Emma Mackey It’s hard not to fall in love with Julia Ducournau’s total empathy for the abject, the oppressively othered and maybe, most importantly, the monsters. Off of the back of her blistering Palme d’Or win for Titane, Ducournau […]

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]]> One Battle After Another ★★★★ https://www.moviemarker.co.uk/one-battle-after-another-%e2%98%85%e2%98%85%e2%98%85%e2%98%85/ Wed, 24 Sep 2025 22:54:00 +0000 https://www.moviemarker.co.uk/?p=92936 Released: 26 September 2025 Director: Paul Thomas Anderson Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Teyana Taylor, Chase Infiniti, Sean Penn, Regina Hall, Benicio Del Toro Paul Thomas Anderson’s chameleonic, seismic, American frenetic fantasia is as gorgeously hypnotic as it is emotionally distant. A work about so much, that it counterintuitively scatters the spectator amongst all of its gorgeously […]

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]]> Presence ★★★★ https://www.moviemarker.co.uk/presence-%e2%98%85%e2%98%85%e2%98%85%e2%98%85/ Thu, 23 Jan 2025 01:49:52 +0000 https://moviemarker.co.uk/?p=91000 Released: 24th January 2025 Director: Steven Soderbergh Starring: Callina Liang, Lucy Liu, Chris Sullivan, Eddy Maday, West Mulholland & Julia Fox American protean Steven Soderbergh has been an unbelievable force of nature throughout his career. From the swooningly romantic works of Out Of Sight and Sex Lies and Videotape, to his utterly humanist and intimate […]

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]]> Here ★★★★★ https://www.moviemarker.co.uk/here-%e2%98%85%e2%98%85%e2%98%85%e2%98%85%e2%98%85/ Sun, 12 Jan 2025 16:30:41 +0000 https://moviemarker.co.uk/?p=90910 Released: 17th January 2025 Director: Robert Zemeckis Starring: Robin Wright, Tom Hanks, Paul Bettany, Kelly Reilly & Michelle Dockery Robert Zemeckis’s Here is somewhat of a miracle. Treading the lines between life and death, pain and joy, of memories and moments, radiating with such burning a sentience and vulnerability that serves as a gentle reminder […]

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]]> Nosferatu ★★★★★ https://www.moviemarker.co.uk/nosferatu-%e2%98%85%e2%98%85%e2%98%85%e2%98%85%e2%98%85/ Fri, 03 Jan 2025 05:05:13 +0000 https://moviemarker.co.uk/?p=90833 Released: 1st January 2025 Director: Robert Eggers Starring: Lily-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, Bill Skarsgård, Willem Dafoe, Aaron Taylor-Johnson & Emma Corrin There was never any doubt that Robert Eggers’s passion project, Nosferatu, would be a a true testament and culmination of a lifetimes worth of creative work. What was unexpected, was how remarkable Nosferatu’s audiovisual […]

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]]> The Brutalist ★★★★ https://www.moviemarker.co.uk/the-brutalist-%e2%98%85%e2%98%85%e2%98%85%e2%98%85/ Sun, 08 Dec 2024 17:30:59 +0000 https://moviemarker.co.uk/?p=90631 Released: 24th January 2025 Director: Brady Corbet Starring: Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce, Joe Alwyn, Raffey Cassidy, Isaach de Bankolé From the very opening of Brady Corbet’s 215-minute monolithic post-war drama, a certain majesty burns through the celluloid. Shot utilising the alchemical method of Vista Vision, Corbet’s attention to detail is truly astonishing. This […]

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