London 2014: ‘A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night’ review
★★★★☆ For much of the past decade, creatures of the night have had to stand by and watch as their charisma was leeched by toothless […]
London 2014: ‘The Keeping Room’ review
★★★★☆ Contorting the standard gender expectations of its genre, Daniel Barber’s The Keeping Room (2014) arrives at the BFI London Film Festival on the back […]
London 2014: ‘The World of Kanako’ review
★★☆☆☆ Tetsuya Nakashima’s icy drama Confessions (2010) took the hyper-stylised aesthetics of his early work Kamikaze Girls (2004) and Memories of Matsuko (2006) and refined […]
London 2014: ‘Dearest’ review
★★★★☆ The taking of a beloved child is the nightmarish scenario at the centre of Thai filmmaker Peter Chan’s effective melodrama, Dearest (2014), competing in […]
London 2014: ‘Free Fall’ review
★★★☆☆ György Pálfi’s wilfully sardonic Free Fall (2014) is an inflammatory anthology of satirical vignettes all set within the same Budapest housing block. A jovial […]
London 2014: ’71’ review
★★★☆☆ Setting your debut feature amidst the provocative milieu of sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland is a brave gambit, particularly placing it in a period […]
London 2014: Our guide to this year’s LFF programme
The BFI London Film Festival returns to the nation’s capital for its 58th edition this week (8 October), bringing with it the promise of ten […]
#LFF 2017: Loveless review
★★★★★ In 1985, Sting sang: “Believe me when I say to you / I hope the Russians love their children too.” Andrey Zvyagintsev’s masterful Loveless […]
London 2015: ‘Something Better to Come’ review
★★★★☆ “Doomed to the dump for the rest of our lives. That is our reality.” This statement, spoken by a girl of just 14, may […]
London 2015: ‘Right Now, Wrong Then’ review
★★★☆☆ When the title-card for South Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo’s latest charming confection pops up with ‘Right Then, Wrong Now’ it’s not a mistake, or […]
Film Review: Listen Up Philip
★★★★☆ There have been several films over the past few years that have sought to engage with the subject of creativity and the pursuit of […]
DVD Review: ‘Fury’
★★★★☆ The second film of director David Ayer’s increasingly prolific career to be released this year following groggy Arnold Schwarzenegger shoot em’ up Sabotage (2014), […]
Film Review: ‘The Imitation Game’
★★★☆☆ The decision to cast Benedict Cumberbatch as unsung war hero Alan Turing in Morten Tyldum’s The Imitation Game (2014) was a canny, albeit obvious […]