Katherine McLaughlin

Katherine is a freelance writer and columnist, based in the UK, who regularly contributes to The List, SciFiNow, LWLies, Broadly, Bust and Real Crime Magazine. She also appears as a guest critic on the London Live film show. Twitter: @Ms_K_McLaughlin

Articles by Katherine McLaughlin

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Days of the Bagnold Summer review: can two awkward loners make a family?

A single mum and her moody, heavy-metal-obsessed teenager negotiate their strained relationship in Simon Bird’s poignant coming-of-age movie.

Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Reviews and recommendations
Maternal review: motherly care in sisterly solidarity

Maura Delpero’s portrait of young women who find a haven to raise their families in a religious community is disarmingly funny and moving, writes Katherine McLaughlin.

Thursday, August 15, 2019

Reviews and recommendations
Family Romance, LLC review: Werner Herzog explores a deeply personal Japanese service

In Japan, the rent-a-family business offers everything from a cure for loneliness to a coverup for a secret shame. Herzog meets the man who replaces absent or disappointing relatives in this sensitive new drama, writes Katherine McLaughlin.

Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Reviews and recommendations
What should have won the 2019 Cannes Palme d’Or?

It wasn’t to be the second year a female director won Cannes’s top prize, but our contributors certainly fancied it as much as Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite. Isabel Stevens introduces thoughts from ten of our contributors.

Saturday, May 25, 2019

Festivals
Les Misérables first look: a tense tour of a Paris commune still in crisis

The violently divided society of Victor Hugo’s novel persists in local Ladj Ly’s scintillating feature debut, which follows a police investigation into a riot in a Montfermeil banlieu, writes Katherine McLaughlin.

Tuesday, May 21, 2019

Reviews and recommendations
Film of the week: Vs. lets the Southend rap battles fly

Connor Swindells’s foster teen channels his hurt into rap in Ed Lilly’s feisty and evocative pierside drama, says Katherine McLaughlin.

Sunday, October 21, 2018

Reviews and recommendations
Mandy first look: Nicolas Cage wreaks revenge at the fiery gates of hell

Panos Cosmatos’s follow-up to Beyond the Black Rainbow is a gloriously lurid mock-80s revenge quest that aims a raging, roaring Nicolas Cage at villains from another dimension, reports Katherine McLaughlin.

Thursday, May 24, 2018

Reviews and recommendations
Girl first look: a touching portrait of a transgender ballet dancer

Lukas Dhont’s debut feature is a breathtakingly empathetic tale of a young woman struggling to be at peace in her body, with a breakout performance from Victor Polster, writes Katherine McLaughlin.

Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Reviews and recommendations