Saturday Night Review: LFF 2024
Comedy legends are born in Jason Reitman’s SNL movie Saturday Night The annual ‘Surprise Film’ slot at the BFI London Film Festival is the hottest…
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Hard Truths Review: LFF 2024
Marianne Jean-Baptiste wages war on the world in Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) is a deeply unpleasant woman. An agoraphobic, germophobic hypochondriac she…
Bird Review: LFF 2024
Bird is a coming of age tale on the edges of society from Andrea Arnold 12-year-old Bailey (newcomer Nykiya Adams) lives in a squat in…
All We Imagine as Light Review: LFF 2024
All We Imagine as Light is an achingly romantic ode to female friendship In modern day Mumbai two nurse room mates are troubled by their…
Maria Review: LFF 2024
Angelina Jolie is entrancing as fading opera star Maria Callas Maria charts the last days in the life of legendary opera singer Maria Callas, played…
Queer Review: LFF 2024
Luca Guadagnino channels William S Burroughs at the height of hedonism in Queer In post second world war Mexico expat William Lee (Daniel Craig) is…
We Live in Time Review: LFF 2024
Strong performances propel weepy We Live in Time Director John Crowley is the film maker behind my all-time favourite Saoirse Ronan movie – Brooklyn (no…
Nightbitch Review: LFF 2024
Amy Adams goes absolutely barking mad in Nightbitch (…sorry) We’ve heard of hot girl Summer yes, but with first The Substance, fellow London Film Festival…
A Nice Indian Boy Review: LFF 2024
Karan Soni and Jonathan Groff charm in fluffy romcom A Nice Indian Boy It’s harder than the streaming giants would have you believe to make…
Nickel Boys Review: LFF 2024
The horrors of segregation and the aftershocks of slavery are distilled into a single place in RaMell Ross’ Nickel Boys “In here and out there…