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Edie Film Review

“Edie”: Film Review

Make Up Film 2019 review

“Make Up”: Film Review

Bacurau Film Review

“Bacurau”: Film Review

Detroit Film

“Detroit”: A Collision of Genres

“Parasite” B&W Edition: Film Review

The Truth Catherine Deneuve Juliette Binoche in a film by Hirokazu Kore-eda

“The Truth”: Film Review

“The Florida Project”: Film Review

“Padre”: Film Review

“Roma”: Film Review

A still from horror film The Ritual

“The Ritual”: Film Review

Portrait of a Lady on fire still

“Portrait of a Lady on Fire”: Film Review

Frank Rogowski in "Undine" by Christian Petzold

“Undine”: Berlinale 2020 Film Review

Persian Lessons Film Review

Berlinale 2020 “Persian Lessons”: Film Review

Beast

“Beast”: Film Review

a still from the film "Lost City of Z" directed by James Gray

“The Lost City of Z”: Movie Musings

Documentary, Glasgow Film Festival

“The Dissident”: Film Review

Bryan Fogel’s account of a Washington Post columnist’s disappearance brings the man behind the story vividly back to life.

Edie Film Review
Drama, New British Cinema

“Edie”: Film Review

Edie is a surprising film. It sets out in an unassuming way and develops into something genuinely affecting. It tells the story of a widow in her early eighties, Edie.

Baby Done Film Rose Matafeo and Matthew Lewis
Comedy, Out this Week

“Baby Done”: Film Review

An inventively disturbing life of the mind is camouflaged by cheerful wholesomeness in “Baby Done”, a low key comedy that flirts with big themes.

Inspiring Films The Invisible Man
Impressions

A List of Inspiring Films: Impressions

I have been talking to lots of people these days, even more than usual: checking up via WhatsApp on my relatives, you know – the ones you usually talk to at Christmas.

Make Up Film 2019 review
London Film Festival 2019, New British Cinema

“Make Up”: Film Review

A young woman becomes her own Rebecca in “Make Up”, Claire Oakley’s directorial debut, with flashforwards that push her into adulthood.

Il Mio Corpo Film
Cannes 2020, Curzon Cinema, world cinema

“Il Mio Corpo”: Film Review

The last instalment of Michele Pennetta’s Sicilian trilogy, “Il Mio Corpo”, is an affecting chamber piece that plays out under huge skies.

Bacurau Film Review
Cannes 2019, world cinema

“Bacurau”: Film Review

Sassy, lethal, and disconcerting, “Bacurau” brings a powerfully surreal twist to the story of Brazil’s cinema of resistance. 

Sally Hawkins in The Shape of Water
London Film Festival 2017

“The Shape of Water”: Film Review

Like all the most accomplished fairy tales, Guillermo del Toro’s world of wonders, “The Shape of Water”, opens with a sense of promise, of magical things to come, and inevitably, with an undertone of darkness.

Russian Film Week
Russian Cinema, Russian Film Week

Russian Film Week 2020 – Part 1

Russian Film Week is back and in fine form. Opening with “The Whaler Boy”,  Philipp Yuryev’s Venice Days winner, the programme also features shorts, masterclasses and talks, including a conversation with Andrey Zviagintsev.

Detroit Film
Drama, Horror, Psychological Thriller, Thriller

“Detroit”: A Collision of Genres

Nightmare on 12th Street.  July 1967, a sweltering summer in Detroit. The city erupts into rebellion.  Looting, arson, snipers.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Classics, Science Fiction

“Close Encounters of the Third Kind”: Film Review

It’s over 40 years since film audiences were struck by the childlike wonder of “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”.

Colour Out of Space Film Review
London Film Festival 2019, Horror, Science Fiction

“Colour Out of Space”: Film Review

This stellar adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Colour Out of Space” marks a brilliant return for cult director Richard Stanley.

Jesse Buckley in Charlie Kaufman's I am Thinking of Ending Things
Netflix, Dark Romance

“I am Thinking of Ending Things”: Film Review

Darkly compelling and brilliantly unreliable, Philip Kaufman’s “I am Thinking of Ending Things” is an imploded kaleidoscope filled with broken shards.

Colin Farrell and Barry Keoghan in The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Dark Comedy, Drama, Horror, Psychological Thriller

“The Killing of a Sacred Deer”: Film Review

Colin Farrell becomes a troublingly perfect Agamemnon in this new film by Yorgos Lanthimos.

Documentary, London Film Festival 2019

“Coup 53”: Film Review

A chirpy and entertaining film about a dark story with terrible consequences, “Coup 53” is charmingly didactic yet raises the question: what is documentary film for?

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