The prolific British director has, for the moment, left behind quirky crime and comedy for his Afghanistan war film — and it’s not hard to understand why. The story the movie is based on is a ...

Rollo Tomasi is a Connecticut-based film critic, TV show critic, news, and editorial writer. He will have a MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2026. Rollo has written over 700 film, ...

“Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant,” which opens Friday, is a forgettable motion picture. It should have been right in my sweet spot, given that it was made by one of my favorite directors, and stars one of ...

Guy Ritchie became famous for his British gangster movies, but his most acclaimed movie is quite outside that genre. Ritchie made his directorial debut with Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, ...

Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant (2023) Film Review, a movie directed by Guy Ritchie, written by Ivan Atkinson, Marn Davies and Guy Ritchie and starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Dar Salim, Emily Beecham, Jonny Lee ...

Best known for his tough talking blokes-with-guns British gangster films, Guy Ritchie switches things up with "Guy Ritchie's The Covenant," an oftentimes riveting war film which marks a new path for ...

Meeting Jake Gyllenhaal and Guy Ritchie is enough to make anyone break into a sweat. That literally happened to Baghdad-born Danish actor Dar Salim, who in Ritchie’s new movie “The Covenant” (in ...

For the past few years, Guy Ritchie and his filmmaking collaborators have alternated between lightweight larks and hefty tales of masculinity. There was the 2019 ensemble crime comedy “The Gentleman,” ...

Is ‘The Covenant' a true story? The movie is not based on a true story, but the script –– written by Ritchie, Ivan Atkinson and Marn Davies –– does channel the experiences of a lot of troops and ...