
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 […]
★★★★☆ For much of the past decade, creatures of the night have had to stand by and watch as their charisma was leeched by toothless […]
★★★★☆ 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 […]
★★☆☆☆ 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 […]
★★★★☆ 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 […]
★★★☆☆ 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 […]
★★★☆☆ Setting your debut feature amidst the provocative milieu of sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland is a brave gambit, particularly placing it in a period […]
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 […]
★★★★★ In 1985, Sting sang: “Believe me when I say to you / I hope the Russians love their children too.” Andrey Zvyagintsev’s masterful Loveless […]
★★★★☆ “Doomed to the dump for the rest of our lives. That is our reality.” This statement, spoken by a girl of just 14, may […]
★★★☆☆ 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 […]
★★★★☆ There have been several films over the past few years that have sought to engage with the subject of creativity and the pursuit of […]
★★★★☆ 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), […]
★★★☆☆ 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 […]