LFF 2023 Review: Evil Does Not Exist is Tantalisingly Obscure
The title Evil Does Not Exist conjures many possibilities – all equally dramatic. Is this a film about religion? An intense...
Read MoreLFF 2023 Review: Foe Almost Says the Quiet Part Out Loud
Author Iain Reid (I’m Thinking of Ending Things) never shies away from questioning what it means to be a man. With Foe, he expands his...
Read MoreLFF 2023 Review: All Of Us Strangers – “A beautifully tender supernatural romantic drama.”
Past and present live side by side in Andrew Haigh’s beautifully tender supernatural romantic drama. The film is based on the 1987 book...
Read MoreLFF 2022 Review: The Banshees of Inisherin is brilliant
Martin McDonagh’s work feels spare. His gift for economical storytelling creates believable characters in minimal screen time. These...
Read MoreLFF 2022 Review: Meet Me In The Bathroom – “The documentary’s strength is in the archive footage”
Named after The Strokes’ song, Meet Me in the Bathroom is a documentary about the rise of the New York City indie scene in the late...
Read MoreLFF 2022 Review: She Said is the Best of Journalism Movies
There’s this part of All the President’s Men that stays with me. Woodward and Bernstein doorstop a woman in need of answers....
Read MoreLFF 2022 Review: Causeway is Quietly Devastating
How does it feel to overcome major trauma? It’s not a catchy theme, it doesn’t sound pleasant and it’s difficult to...
Read MoreLFF 2022 Review: The Eternal Daughter – “atmospheric, melancholy, musing on memory, creativity and regret”
Tilda Swinton plays a mother and daughter in writer-director Joanna Hogg’s follow-up to The Souvenir and The Souvenir Part II. The Eternal...
Read MoreLFF 2022 Review: Aftersun – “The portrait of a father-daughter relationship works so well”
Bitter-sweet memories of a sun-soaked late ‘90s holiday burn brightly in writer-director Charlotte Wells’ impressive debut feature. The...
Read MoreLFF 2021 Review: The Wolf Suit – “A bold, often raw piece of work”
The nature of memory and conflicting recollections are examined in forensic detail in filmmaker Sam Firth’s debut feature-length...
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