Film Editorial
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Long Shot
This passable-ish romantic comedy is a slightly unwieldy combination of Apatow-era raunch, Capraesque fable, and 90s high concept swooners like ‘Dave’ and ‘Pretty Woman’. Roge...
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Vox Lux
Actor turned director Brady Corbet’s audacious but flawed second picture is a pop fable that feels like a mutant riff on ‘A Star is Born’. A chilling 1999-set opening depicts ...
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High Life
Septuagenarian French writer-director Denis’ English language debut picture is a singularly strange but visually drab, and muddled, science fiction picture, its philosophical ...
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Birds of Passage
Co-helmed by his partner Christina Gallego, Ciro Guerra’s follow-up to the striking, hallucinatory debut ‘Embrace of the Serpent’ chronicles the nascent Columbian drugs trade ...
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Woman at War
Writer-director Erlingsson’s follow-up to the striking ‘Of Horses and Men’ is an appealing mix of heartfelt protest picture, deadpan mildly surreal humanism a lafellow Iceland...
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Happy as Lazzaro
Italian writer-director Alice Rohrwacher’s third picture is a bewitching surrealist fable. The first half takes place in Inviolata, a small rural village that serves the neigh...
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Mid90s
The feature directorial debut from actor Johah Hill is an appealingly heartfelt but unsentimental study of growing up in LA in the titular period. Suljic is Stevie, a thirteen...
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3 Faces
Despite the twenty-year ban on filmmaking from the Iranian authorities, writer-director Jafar Panahi remains, thankfully, pretty prolific. His follow-up to 2015’s ‘Taxi Tehran...
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Red Joan
Adapted from Jennie Rooney’s 2014 novel, which was in turn inspired by the fascinating true story of ‘granny spy’ Melita Norwood, this lacklustre picture squanders a promising...
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Eighth Grade
YouTube star Bo Burnham’s directorial feature debut is a surprisingly perceptive, unvarnished & queasily funny portrait of teen angst. The excellent Elsie Fisher is the social...
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Yuli: The Carlos Acosta Story
Scripted by long-time Ken Loach collaborator, Paul Laverty, this biopic about the Cuban dancer attempts to enliven the genre via some meta touches and time-juggling chronology...
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Border
Borders both personal and geographical, real and fantastical, are examined in this engrossing modern folk tale from Iranian-Swedish director Abbassi. Tina (Mallander) is a ded...
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Girl
The debut picture from Belgian writer-director Lukas Dhont is a deeply affecting and intimate study of identity that revolves around a troubled teen. Fifteen-year-old Lara (Po...
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