The Invite is, quite simply, the best film I’ve seen this year.

It’s painfully funny, cringeworthily awkward, brutally honest and incredibly smart. One minute you’re laughing out loud, the next you’re hiding behind your hands. It captures the tiny shifts in conversation, social dynamics and human behaviour with almost frightening accuracy.

Essentially a four-hander, it plays almost like a stage play, with echoes of the best work of Woody Allen and Mike Nichols, while still feeling completely fresh and modern.…

I’ve always had a soft spot for Jackass. Between the TV series and the films they’ve produced some genuinely iconic comedy moments, and while Jackass: Best and Last never quite reaches those heights, it still made me laugh.

My opinion is probably in line with most people’s: it’s funniest when the gang are putting themselves through ridiculous amounts of physical pain, and much less funny when the humour drifts into bodily fluids and gross-out territory. The callbacks to some of…

As all my friends know, Steven Spielberg is my favourite director, my filmmaking hero, so whenever the master releases a new film, expectations are inevitably sky high. Oddly, I’d never really bought into the marketing or the central concept of Disclosure Day, which the filmmakers have worked hard to keep secret. Having now seen it, I’m not sure it’s quite as profound or life-changing as it thinks it is.

It’s also a surprisingly slow burn. The first 40 minutes are…