Rental Family Review (2025 BFI London Film Festival)
It’s been two years since Brendan Fraser made his remarkable comeback with his Oscar-winning performance in Darren Aronofsky’s harrowing film...
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Silent Friend Review (2025 BFI London Film Festival)
Silent Friend, the latest film from Ildikó Enyedi, attempts to communicate with unknowable life forms. A vast and intricate web...
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...
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 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...
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...
Is This Thing On? Review (2025 BFI London Film Festival)
I’ve always found the idea of making a movie about stand-up comedy so interesting, whether it’s Bob Fosse’s Lenny or...
Anemone Review (2025 BFI London Film Festival)
Arthouse is a word that’s almost fallen into dis-use. With their unconventional style, symbolic content and emphasis on the aesthetic...
Frankenstein Review (2025 BFI London Film Festival)
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has spawned so many cinematic adaptations that every subsequent movie risks resembling the polyglot creature at its centre: an...
ChaO Review (2025 BFI London Film Festival)
Love is a peculiar thing. We do not choose whom we fall in love with; it’s a spontaneous emotion we...