Lowden, Jack (1990- )

‘Benediction’ Review: A Poet’s Life, in Love and War

Since his first feature, “Distant Voices, Still Lives” in 1988, the British writer and director Terence Davies has made a handful of films that can be described — owing to their emotional subtlety and formal precision — as poetic. Recently, he has been making films about poets, which isn’t quite the same thing. “Biopic” is […]

Know More

‘Slow Horses’ Review: Tinker Tailor Soldier Failure

The show around Oldman is not entirely up to the standards set by his performance, but it’s not too far off — “Slow Horses” is a highly satisfying celebration and sendup of the John le Carré novels that clearly inspired it. It’s a complicated conspiracy thriller crossed with an office comedy, and it lightly dusts […]

Know More