Laura Barton

is a feature writer for The Guardian. She lives in London.

DVD Review: The Burning Plain

Charlize Theron and Kim Basinger fail to engage in this ambitious but exhausting movie

First Posted August 20, 2009

A stunning and stylish tale of a man torn between his love for two women

First Posted August 13, 2009

Philip Seymour Hoffman and Meryl Streep star in a story of suspected child abuse at a Catholic school

First Posted July 8, 2009

Steven Soderbergh's biopic of Che Guevara is more truthful than most biographies

First Posted June 30, 2009

Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio are miscast in this digestible, cosy film adaptation of Richard Yates's 1961 novel

First Posted June 30, 2009

Family drama starring Anne Hathaway as an addict fresh out of rehab who returns home for her sister's wedding

First Posted June 30, 2009

Forty years after Belle de Jour, Portuguese director Manoel de Oliveira delivers a sequel

First Posted June 24, 2009

Taut, emotionally exacting film about the secrets held by family members

First Posted June 24, 2009