True story of Jewish boy in flight from the Nazis and hiding in the forest is told here with a fair amount of sentimentThis sweet if somewhat sentiment-and-string-section-forward Canadian film tells the true story of Max (Jett Klyne, impressive), a Jewish boy aged 12 from Warsaw, trying to evade capture during the second world war. Max’s mother (Berkley...

Campaign spokesperson called Ali Abbasi’s film, which premiered at Cannes on Monday, ‘pure fiction which sensationalises lies that have been long debunked’The Trump campaign has come out swinging against The Apprentice after the film, which depicts the former president raping his first wife, shocked audiences at Cannes, with a spokesperson saying that...

Dressed like an extra from The Crow, the actor plays a tragicomic supporting character in this drama that feels like a TV pilot showSet in New York City and filmed in Manchester, England, here is a film that aims to play like a feature-length episode of The Wire or The Sopranos. Naturally, that is not an easy target to hit, and the result, while decent...

Ali Abbasi’s film, starring Sebastian Stan, presents a fictionalised account of an incident recorded in Ivana Trump’s 1990 divorce deposition, and since retractedThe Apprentice review – cartoon version of chump-in-chief Donald Trump’s early yearsDonald Trump is depicted as a rapist who assaulted his first wife, Ivana, in a new biopic, The Apprentice,...

Cannes film festival Elaborate necrophiliac meditation on loss and longing stars Vincent Cassel as an oncologist who has founded a restaurant with a hi-tech cemetery attachedDavid Cronenberg’s new film is a contorted sphinx without a secret, an eroticised necrophiliac meditation on grief, longing and loss that returns this director to his now very...

Cannes film festival Ali Abbasi’s film presents young Donald as an amoral narcissist, wastes the talent of Jeremy Strong and includes a grisly rape scene that is quickly glossed overNews: new film about Donald Trump depicts him as a rapistDonald Trump will not be the smallest bit worried by this genially ironic, lenient TV movie-style treatment of...