The Fault in Our Stars (12A) It’s not always a good idea to meet your idols, as they say: the gilt has a habit of rubbing off on your fingers. This is the experience of 18-year-old cancer victim Hazel (Shailene Woodley) after she has an underwhelming rendezvous with Peter van Houten (Willem Dafoe), the ill-mannered author of…

A tale excellently acted and directed

An exercise in offensiveness

A fitfully engrossing film

A film constantly on the verge of being interesting

Blended (12A) When a couple in a romantic comedy despise each other in the opening scene of a film it’s a pretty safe bet they’re going to fall head over heels in love before the end. This is just one of the unsurprising ‘surprises’ in Blended, which has so many clichéd scenarios it could have been…

A film to make you sit up and think

A slow-burn and affecting drama

The IFI hosts a Ken Loach retrospective

A dumbed-down plot and wannabe polemic