Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Film round-up: April 26, 2024
The Star's critic MARIA DUARTE reviews Kidnapped, I.S.S., Ordinary Angels and Challengers
kidnapped
ALISTAR FINDLAY is mesmerised by this multiple ‘Visions of Scotland’ assault on the audience’s eyes and senses
The Star's critics ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA reviews I Am Love, The Penguin Lessons, Freaky Tales, The Thicket
MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
New releases from Steve Knightley, Jupiter & Okwess, Jason Palmer, Lisa Knapp and Gerry Driver, Kin'Gongolo Kiniata, Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey, Dan Sealey, Simin Tande, PAZ
JOHN GREEN relishes photography that unfolds a longstanding and poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
Kidnapped (12A)
Directed by Marco Bellocchio
★★★★
ITALIAN maestro, the Marxist Marco Bellocchio, brings to the big screen the outrageous tale of the kidnapping of a young Jewish boy by the Catholic church, who was sent to the Vatican to be converted to Christianity.
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