Film

Sexy Beast

Director
Jonathan Glazer
Certificate
18
Running Time
88 mins

A welcome return to the big screen for the very best film to emerge from the late ‘90s Cock-er-nee gangster glut. The plot’s pure cliché: retired gangster on the Costa Crime is lured back for One Last Job.

At first, you could be forgiven for thinking that Ray Winstone and Ben Kingsley are playing the wrong parts, with the latter taking the psycho role. But Jonathan Glazer’s debut is a stylish, surprisingly literate and refreshingly original riff on an over-worked genre, boasting a fabulously sustained display of menace and swearing by Gandh . .., er, Kinglsey.

By robin askew, Monday, Jun 7 2021

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