The Daily Telegraph - Saturday - Review
Amid the mists of Dakar
ATLANTICS
French-Senegalese director Mati Diop has fashioned the year’s most shivery debut – part immigrant odyssey, part ghost story, unfolding in the coastal mists of Dakar, where a woman (Mame Bineta
Sane) is left behind when her lover makes a break for Spain. After winning the Cannes Grand Prix, the film was scooped up by Netflix. 12A cert, 106 min
THE TWO POPES
Anthony Hopkins (as Benedict XVI) and Jonathan Pryce (as Francis) joust amusingly in this chamber piece – out both in cinemas and on Netflix – about the unique handover of papal power in 2013. But massive opportunities are missed, and the film comes close to getting behind them in mutual exculpation.
12A cert, 126 min
CHARLIE’S ANGELS
A new generation of Angels – Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott and Ella Balinska – take over from the last trio, in a brisk, disposable reboot from director Elizabeth Banks that deserved a better showing at the US box office. It’s flimsy fun – and eyepoppingly coutured at the very least.
12A cert, 118 min
THE NIGHTINGALE
Australia’s Jennifer Kent (The Babadook) returns with this rich and rivetingly tough outback western, in which an Irish convict girl (Aisling Franciosi) pursues her rapist (Sam Claflin) across the Tasmanian wilds.
18 cert, 136 min
HANSEL AND GRETEL
CBeebies’ annual family panto comes to cinemas this weekend, with bonus festive skits and singalongs appended. It’s high on charm and peril-free, with songs you’ll be humming until March.
U cert, 73 min