Alison Oliver

Michael Sheen, Sharon Horgan, and others in Best Interests © Chris Baker Pictures

Best Interests review: heartbreaking BBC drama

Best Interests tells about the parents of a young girl with a degenerative muscle disease. She lived much longer than expected, but when it was time to let her go the family fell apart over the decision.

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Barry Keoghan and Jacob Elordi in Saltburn

Saltburn: another horrible man wins everything

Saltburn is a morality tale, or perhaps a parable. It doesn’t end with a lesson, but a warning. It’s the story of Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan), a scholarship student at Oxford who presents himself as poor and orphaned. He pretends

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Alison Oliver in Conversations with Friends

Conversations with Friends: bring on the dysfunctional relationships

Conversations with Friends is a slow moving Irish tale based on a novel by Sally Rooney, who authored the very popular Normal People from a couple of seasons ago. Once again we have people desperate for love, but unable to

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