Graeme Strachan

@The_reviewist

Graeme Strachan is a writer, editor, and journalist based in Edinburgh. He has been a critic and reviewer for over 15 years in areas including theatre, video games and restaurant critique; and likes to dabbles in film and television production. He lives in hope for the day where he finds a more profitable use for his Classical Studies degree than obscure questions in a pub quiz.

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Our Midnight

Brave effort to contend with vast, wide and difficult human topics

Gagarine

A touchdown which grounds itself in glory

The Old Ways

A novel Latin American twist on the old staple exorcism horror

Father

A parable about conviction and peaceful protest standing up against corruption

The Grand Budapest Hotel

It’s difficult to overstate the sheer delight that suffuses almost every second of this film

Sator

A slow burn of a film, filled with a sickly creeping dread

The Ascent

A desolate and unforgiving passion play rendered through the storms of a Soviet winter

The Dig

A gentle and quiet tale of subtle brilliance

Southland Tales

A beautifully unwatchable mess on a biblical scale

The Blackout: Invasion Earth

A shamelessly gung-ho alien invasion movie, with a distinctly Russian twist

Mouchette

An abstract study of poverty and domestic drudgery

Tremors

Still as fresh, as fun, and as hilarious as the day it was made

Josep

An occasionally touching, and often harrowing experience

Schoolgirls

A soulful and realistic, if broadly unsatisfying, portrayal of 1990s Spanish adolescence

Versus

Cult classic looks dated but remains a landmark of lo-fi excess

Trial By Fire

Good performances let down by workmanlike pacing and unimaginative structure

Cinema Paradiso

Glorious film delights in all that is magical about the cinema

Dead Slow Ahead

An uncanny and dreamlike vision of an everyday technological wonder

Five Easy Pieces

A ground-breaking, era-defining classic of American cinema

The Painted Bird

This bleakest of war films becomes monotonous through sheer, dragging sadness

Lucky Grandma

Everyone should have a grandma like this

A Place Among the Dead

Messy faux-documentary with the feel of a student art project

Cold Light of Day

A dull and plodding experience

La Llorona

Surprisingly low-key and yet still effective