John Patterson
John Patterson writes about film and is based in Los Angeles
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Jeff Nichols’ Loving: a romance beyond boundariesJoel Edgerton and Ruth Negga play an interracial couple fighting to stay together. It makes for a luminous historic drama
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Mary Tyler Moore: a true cultural icon who changed the face of televisionMoore ripped up the TV rulebook by bringing feminism to the small screen and with her own company went on to produce some of the best shows ever seen
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Christine: Rebecca Hall is superb in a heartbreaking tale of depressionIn 1974, news anchor Christine Chubbuck killed herself live on air. In this considered drama, Hall gives gravitas and depth to her tragic tale
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Natalie Portman's Jackie: JFK's widow finally gets her own moviePablo Larraín’s film shows why the White House wives deserve their own biopics
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Liam Neeson: is the Silence star wasting his very particular set of skills?After a standard run of action fare, could the actor’s festive trio signal a return to form?
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For haters only: watching Steve Bannon's documentary filmsBefore he became Donald Trump’s most trusted adviser, the businessman labelled a white nationalist by critics had a career making rightwing movies
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Bleed For This: Miles Teller's boxing movie is no knockoutDespite some heavyweight performances, this pugilist biopic is overshadowed by some very distinguished forebears
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Network at 40: the flawed satire that predicted Trump and cable 'news porn'Prescient and powerful, the film foreshadowed the likes of Bill O’Reilly with its ‘mad as hell’ protagonists and the climate of American anger that birthed Trump
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Allied: history repeats itself in Brad Pitt’s second world war thrillerThe actual events of the war may be receding into the vagueness of folk memory, but we still can’t get enough of them on screen
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Richard Linklater: American cinema’s last true maverick?The Boyhood director’s relaxed individualism is celebrated in a new documentary about his sprawling, and often brilliant, career
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My Scientology Movie: Louis Theroux's exposé is the most damning yetThe documentarian found a typically offbeat way to infiltrate the church’s secretive world but the result is just as powerful and evocative as Going Clear
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Harry ever after: tracing Daniel Radcliffe's evolution, from Potter to flatulent corpseWith Swiss Army Man, Daniel Radcliffe shakes off the last of his tween era with a funny and moving role as a cheese-cutting cadaver
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Frat's entertainment: why Animal House is still the king of college comediesIt may be tasteless, but National Lampoon captured the campus experience in a way no UK film has
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Eight Days A Week: how Ron Howard brought the Beatles back to lifeHoward’s new film captures the sweat, screams and cultural significance of the band’s touring years. He explains why the Fab Four still fascinates him
Silver linings playback: will Jack Nicholson's return inspire film's dormant veterans?