Sundance London: The Brink (2019)
★★★★☆
The Brink by Alison Klayman is a must-see documentary following dangerous eminence grise Steve Bannon over the crucial period of the US midterms and the EU elections.
★★★★☆
The Brink by Alison Klayman is a must-see documentary following dangerous eminence grise Steve Bannon over the crucial period of the US midterms and the EU elections.
Cannes Film Festival 2019 Day 12: Award Winners Palme d’Or Bong Joon-Ho for Parasite, the first Korean winner of the Palme d’Or and the…
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The late, great Aretha Franklin raises the roof singing gospel in Sidney Pollack’s unmissable Amazing Grace 1972 documentary.
★★★★★
The pressures and anxieties of a 14-year-old girl navigating eighth grade in the social media age are put under the microscope in writer/director Bo Burnham’s achingly observant little gem Eighth Grade.
★★★☆☆
Jonah Hill’s Mid90s is an affectionate, coming-of-age time capsule of skateboards, street life, hip-hop, pop culture moments and stoners.
★★★★☆
Wildlife, Paul Dano’s directorial debut, is a scorching coming-of-age drama starring Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal, with a compelling debut from Ed Oxenbould.
★★★★☆
Holiday is a beautifully brutal first feature from Isabella Eklöf about a petty drug lord’s girlfriend who is in for a holiday she’ll never forget in a vicious, powerful and fresh look at the gangster genre.
★★★★☆
Set in a down-beat, dark emergency call centre, The Guilty is a Danish thriller directed by Gustav Möller that takes place in claustrophobic real time, centred on a single character.
★★★★☆
Truth and justice clash in The Guilty (Den skyldige), Gustav Möller’s claustrophobic thriller , where no-one can walk away with their innocence intact.
★★★★☆
John Carroll Lynch’s wonderful, poignant Lucky is a fitting career-end for brilliant actor Harry Dean Stanton.
★★★★☆
Paul Schrader’s gripping First Reformed links spiritual and physical torment to the environmental threat to the future of the earth.
★★★★☆
Hereditary is a sophisticated, updated horror movie by Ari Aster that showcases Toni Collette as her family falls apart.
★★★★☆
Debra Granik’s Leave No Trace is a sympathetic, realistic character study of a father and daughter trying to adapt to society after being off grid in a US wilderness.
★★★★☆
Sundance London 2018: 31 May-3 June