Taken for themselves, the titular character's actions in Morvern Caller are unethical at best: after her boyfriend commits suicide, she cuts up his body, dumps it in a hole and publishes his recently finished novel under her own name. Yet the film doesn't pass judgement on her. Her motives aren't ever laid out explicitly, but we do get a look into her bleak circumstances of a low-wage worker in a desolate area. Samantha Morton's Performance is devoid of emotional outbursts,…

A delightful comedy featuring usual fish out of water or mistaken identity scenarios and, of course, loads of sexual double entendres, Cluny Brown most notably pulls no punches when it comes to its targets. In its first it ightly wanders from one character to the next for the right amount of time to establish their personality and draw some jokes from it. With the titular character's engagement as a maiden comes a tighter locational and narrational focus, after which the…

It doesn't exactly feel like self-parody and it doesn't exactly feel like Tarantino jumped the shark, but The Hateful Eight most definitely does not feel as well crafted as any of his other films bar Death Proof. The bursts of gory violence are timed for big laughs, but the narrative lacks the usual mix of importance, freshness and cleverness. Awkward slow-motion, a puzzlingly pointless flashback and the use of a special narrator move the film past the edge to overindulgent…