Calle Malaga (2025 BFI London Film Festival)
Maria Angeles (Carmen Maura) has lived in Tangier for her entire life. Even if her husband has now passed away...
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My Father’s Shadow Review (2025 BFI London Film Festival)
My Father's Shadow marks an impressive debut feature for director Akinola Davies Jr. It clearly stems from a place of...
The Last Sacrifice Review
Engagingly divergent documentary The Last Sacrifice examines how a brutal pitchfork slaying in 1945 influenced folk horror from its 1970s...
The History Of Sound Review (2025 BFI London Film Festival)
It’s impossible to ignore the parallels between Oliver Hermanus’ The History Of Sound and Brokeback Mountain. Both are based on...
Die My Love Review (2025 BFI London Film Festival)
Sometimes there are changes in our lives that we can verbalise, or maybe we can, but it’s not enough, it’s...
After the Hunt Review (2025 BFI London Film Festival)
2024 saw Luca Guadagnino at the forefront of the cinematic scene, with his sweat-infused tennis love triangle in Challengers inspiring...
Hamlet Review (2025 BFI London Film Festival)
Aneil Kari and Riz Ahmed have formed a partnership to rival Scorsese and De Niro. In 2022, they won the...
Left-Handed Girl Review (2025 BFI London Film Festival)
“Why is she eating with her left hand?” asks a grandfather (Akio Chen) to his family when he sees his...
The Voice of Hind Rajab Review (2025 BFI London Film Festival)
As the initial intertitles tell us, The Voice of Hind Rajab takes place in Gaza on the 29th of January...
Blue Moon Review (2025 BFI London Film Festival)
For over twenty years, he was half of the biggest songwriting team on Broadway. Throughout the 1920s and 30s, Lorenz...
No Other Choice Review (2025 BFI London Film Festival)
Park Chan-wook is in many ways my Martin Scorsese. As someone who idolises East Asian filmmakers more than Western counterparts,...
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere Review (2025 BFI London Film Festival)
The opening scenes of Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere immediately tell you what to expect. A little boy in 1950s...
Love+War Review (2025 BFI London Film Festival)
"My head is always where I'm not," ruminates Pulitzer Prize-winning photo-journalist Lynsey Addario, who acts as the subject of the...
The World of Love Review (2025 London Film Festival)
The 2025 London Film Festival has presented dozens of movies that fall under similar themes. After a week of watching...