Shalini Langer

Christopher Reeve says that the biggest transition the accident brought about in his life, earlier full of constant activity, was the change from being “participant to observer”. Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story manages largely to be both.

The Wild Robot movie review: Based on author Peter Brown's book – which is why the movie seems as complete as it does, rather than thought hastily on a storyboard – The Wild Robot uses a hand-painted animation technique, part classic Disney, part Hayao Miyazaki.

Smile 2 movie review: The trick to a horror story is to know when to hide your hand and when to show it – not showing the same hand, again and again.

Goodrich movie review: One reason is that Goodrich has just too many things happening parallelly.

Venom The Last Dance movie review: Director Kelly Marcel manages to evoke a sense of fleeting loss, which is not as easy as it seems in a film of this nature.

Give me the wrinkled Gisele Pelicot, felling her mass rapists in a French court, demolishing the silence around sexual abuse, by saying simply: “Shame must change sides.” So must heroism.

Here movie review: Tom Hanks and RobinWright about a man realising that most lifetimes involve settling down and watching history go by.

Gladiator II movie review: If Russell Crowe-starrer was about palace intrigues, complex relationships and unseen dangers, the second dispenses with most of the politics, and adds more fights, a lot of animals, and has far little for its women to do.

Wicked movie review: To give Cynthia Erivo her due, and to a lesser extent Ariana Grande, the two are the better parts of Wicked. It is tempting to think what a film centred on just the two of them would do, as the greens and pinks mixed to create unexpected hues.

Christmas Eve in Miller's Point movie review: Directed and co-written by Taormina, Christmas Eve in Miller's Point is a Wes Anderson-like dip into the chaos and extreme ordinariness of a family on the big evening of Christmas.