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17 October 2024

#LFF 2024: It’s Not Me review

★★★★☆ A swift but singular filmmaking self-portrait, Leos Carax’s It’s Not Me reflects on the French auteur’s 40-year directorial career, as well as his many cinematic – and canine – influences.

Daniel Green / London Film Festival

10 October 2024

★★★★☆ Ralph Fiennes approaches top form as a spiritually and morally-conflicted cardinal during a Vatican Conclave in Edward Berger’s gripping, oft-humorous follow-up to the multi-Oscar-winning All Quiet On the Western Front.

Daniel Green / London Film Festival

27 May 2024

Cannes 2024: Sean Baker’s Anora wins Palme d’Or

The 77th Cannes Film Festival concluded with a shift to the new generation. Notable awards went to Sean Baker’s Anora and Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof The Seed of the Sacred Fig.

Cannes / John Bleasdale

Festivals

Sundance 2018: Never Goin’ Back review

Caitlin Quinlan / Sundance
2 June 2018

★★★☆☆ Fresh faces Maia Mitchell and Cami Morrone star in the debut feature film from Texan director Augustine Frizzell, the chaotic, stoner-girl trip Never...

Cannes 2018: Kore-eda’s Shoplifters wins Palme d’Or

Cannes / John Bleasdale
19 May 2018

The 71st edition of the Cannes Film Festival came to a close earlier today with Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda winning the coveted Palme d’Or...

Cannes 2018: Ayka review

Cannes / Martyn Conterio
19 May 2018

★★★★★ Sergey Dvortsevoy’s Ayka follows a young woman over five days bitterly cold days in a city she doesn’t really know. Attempting to flee...

Cannes 2018: At War review

Cannes / Martyn Conterio
17 May 2018

★★★★☆ Stéphane Brizé and Vincent Lindon are fast becoming the Scorsese and De Niro of French social realist cinema. Their latest effort, At War,...

Cannes 2018: Shoplifters review

Cannes / John Bleasdale
15 May 2018

★★★★★ Cannes favourite Hirokazu Kore-eda returns to the Croisette for the seventh time with Shoplifters, a quietly devastating portrayal of family and theft in...

Cannes 2018: Mandy review

Cannes / John Bleasdale
15 May 2018

★★★☆☆ Italian-Canadian director Panos Cosmatos enters Cannes Critics’ Week with his second film, the psychotropic arthouse horror Mandy, starring Nicolas Cage and Andrea Riseborough...