MARIA DUARTE, LEO BOIX and ANGUS REID review Brides, Dead of Winter, A Night Like This, and The Librarians
Latest editorial
It’s positivity that wins the day
Maria Duarte is charmed by this teenage gay rom com that, although predictable, is highly engaging and topical
![REBELS: Ebada Hassan and Safiyya Ingar in Nadia Fall’s powerful debut feature Brides [Pic: IMDb]](https://msd11.gn.apc.org/sites/default/files/styles/desktop/public/2025-09/round%20up%20web_0.jpg.webp?itok=41xI6jhN)
MARY CONWAY recommends an early Shakespearean tragedy that feels so contemporary that it mirrors our daily news
A ghost story by Mexican Ave Barrera, a Surrealist poetry collection by Peruvian Cesar Moro, and a manifesto-poem on women’s labour and capitalist havoc by Peruvian Valeria Roman Marroquin
DAVID NICHOLSON recommends a dazzling production of Bernstein’s opera set in a world where chaos and violence are greeted by equanimity
MARY CONWAY is frustrated by a new play that loses its drama amid the moral dilemma of re-settling children in the aftermath of WWII
Acclaimed as a masterpiece when it premiered, this study of story-telling in an Irish pub more than lives up to expectations, says MARY CONWAY
SYLVIA HIKINS relishes a comedy that dives deep into Liverpool’s divided loyalties
Love, Simon (12A)
Directed by Greg Berlanti
★★★★
It has been long in coming but finally Hollywood's first teenage gay rom com which is sweet, funny, totally disarming and an entertaining joy.
Based on Becky Albertalli’s young adult novel it centres on 17-year-old Simon Spier (Nick Robinson) who hasn't told his liberal parents (Jennifer Garner and Josh Duhamel) or his friends his greatest secret that he is gay. In the meanwhile he falls for an anonymous classmate online.
When he is threatened and blackmailed with being outed by the obnoxious school idiot (Logan Miller) it forces him to come to terms with his real identity.
With its John Hughes undertones director Greg Berlanti delivers a rich and smart coming of age tale that most teenagers, regardless of their sexuality, will be able to relate to.
More from this author
