GNOME CINEMA
FOR the studios, the summer finishes around the second weekend in August. The weeks around the bank holiday are a dumping ground for projects doomed to fail.
It’s a time of year when the PRs are extra cagey about review screenings. So however good a film looks on paper – a remake of The War of the Roses with Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman, a Covid drama from Ari Aster – your enthusiasm is best left curbed.
Arriving on the last Friday of the month, Caught Stealing is the latest from visionary director Darren Aronofsky. His ninth feature film finds Aronofsky back on the naughty step, trying to re-ingratiate himself with the money men after being caught trying to pass off an indulgent folly as art.