With "Bird", Arnold has taken "her biggest swing yet". Fans of her "gritty canon" may hate the film, "because it lives in that tricky place where social and magical realism collide", but I found ...

There is only one Andrea Arnold, as much as her contemporaries in Europe and beyond try to imitate her particular style: emotionally heightened social realism with often first-time actors playing ...

The opening shot of Bird, Kent-born director Andrea Arnold’s new cinematic masterpiece, is a clue that can help to unlock the confounding film that will follow. We see two birds swooping through the ...