BAFTA 2026
★★★★☆
BAFTA 2026
Nouvelle Vague (2025)
★★★★☆
Breathless (A Bout de Souffle) and Citizen Kane are generally accepted to be the most influential films ever made: Jean-Luc Godard and Orson Welles, their directors. Breathless was on television recently: it is now part of film history.
H is for Hawk (2025)
★★★☆☆
Claire Foy plays an academic devastated by bereavement who finds solace in a connection with a goshawk in Philippa Lowthorpe’s true-story drama H is for Hawk.
Golden Globes 2026
★★★★☆
The Golden Globes awards are on 11 January 2026. WINNERS, Nominations, predictions and snu.bs
it was just an accident (2025) (Yek tasadef sadeh)
★★★★☆
It Was Just An Accident directed by Jafar Panahi is a moral examination of what happens when former political prisoners think they have seen a former torturer.
Oscars Nominations 2026
★★★★☆
Oscars Nominations 2026
Pillion (2025)
★★★★☆
Pillion is a sensational feature debut by Harry Lighton with graphic images of sub-dom gay sex.
Dragonfly (2025)
★★★★☆
Dragonfly is a small film. Small in the sense it’s obviously low budget (location) and a two-hander. But it’s so well written (by director Paul Andrew Williams) and exquisitely acted that it seems bigger.
Odyssey (2025)
★★☆☆☆
The confusingly titled Odyssey is a violent thriller set in a gentrifying Britain, directed by Gerard Johnson.
BFI LFF 2025: Winners
BFI LFF 2025: Sound of Falling (2025): (In die Sonne schauen)
★★★★☆
Mascha Schilinsky’s superb Sound of Falling is an immersive, fractured reflection on childhood, telling the story of four young girls from different eras.
Suleymane’s Story (2024) (L’Histoire de Suleymane)
★★★★☆
Souleymane’s Story, directed by Boris Lojkine, is a searingly realistic two days in the life of one of the invisible asylum seekers – a bicycle courier in Paris.
Urchin (2025)
★★★★☆
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The Kitchen Brigade (2022)
★★☆☆☆
The Kitchen Brigade is a wish-fulfilment comedy about the topical issue of migration to the European Union.