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.
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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.
Read moreAn inventively disturbing life of the mind is camouflaged by cheerful wholesomeness in “Baby Done”, a low key comedy that flirts with big themes.
Read moreA young woman becomes her own Rebecca in “Make Up”, Claire Oakley’s directorial debut, with flashforwards that push her into adulthood.
Read moreThe paradox of Stanley and Oscar’s home, their island, Sicily, is that while its horizons – the land, sea and skies – feel limitless, the possibilities it affords its young people are precarious and meagre.
Read moreSassy, lethal, and disconcerting, “Bacurau” brings a powerfully surreal twist to the story of Brazil’s cinema of resistance.
Read moreLike 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.
Read moreRussian 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.
Read moreNightmare on 12th Street. July 1967, a sweltering summer in Detroit. The city erupts into rebellion. Looting, arson, snipers.
Read moreIt’s over 40 years since film audiences were struck by the childlike wonder of “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”.
Read moreThis stellar adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Colour Out of Space” marks a brilliant return for cult director Richard Stanley.
Read more“I am Thinking of Ending Things” is a work steeped in the uncanny which while it hints at horror, borrowing some of the genre’s tropes and cues, delivers instead only horror of a purely existential kind.
Read moreThe film provides a powerful emotional and sensory load – one can’t help but emerge from the cinema in an altered state.
Read moreA chirpy and entertaining film about a dark story with terrible consequences, Coup 53 is charmingly didactic
Read more“Disobedience” reveals how one can long for what one also wishes to escape from.
Read moreKindness and cascades of fun prevail in this second cinematic outing for young Paddington.
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