On Chesil Beach (2017)
★★★☆☆
On Chesil Beach is a well-acted, sensitive adaptation of Ian McEwan’s novella.
Cannes Film Festival 2018: Day 6
★★★★☆
Cannes Film Festival 2018
Cannes Film Festival 2018: Day 5
★★★★☆
Cannes Film Festival 2018.
Cannes Film Festival 2018: Day 4
★★★★☆
Cannes Film Festival 2018.
Redoubtable (2017)
★★★☆☆
In a timely release for the anniversary of the May 1968 almost-revolution in Paris, Michel Hazanavicius wickedly funny re-invention of Jean-Luc Godard in Redoubtable, as seen though the eyes of Anne Wiazemsky, his second wife.
Cannes Film Festival 2018: Day 1
★★★★☆
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Cannes Film Festival 2018: Day 3
★★★★☆
Cannes Film Festival 2018
Cannes Film Festival 2018: Day 2
★★★★☆
Cannes Film Festival 2018
How To Talk To Girls At Parties (2017)
★★★★☆
John Cameron Mitchell’s How To Talk To Girls At Parties is an unlikely mash-up of punk and aliens in the British suburbs.
Cannes Film Festival 2018: Official Selection
★★★★☆
Cannes Film Festival 2018.
Lean on Pete (2017)
★★★★☆
Andrew Haigh’s Lean on Pete is coming-of-age road movie grounded in the all-American setting of quarter-horse racing.
Beast
★★★★☆
Michael Pearce’s assured feature debut Beast is a clever, feral psychological horror that constantly surprises.
The Wound (2017)
★★★★☆
The Wound (Inxeba) by John Trengove stars Nakhane Touré in a tense drama of gay male sexuality brought into focus by the traditional Xhosa circumcision rite of passage.
Funny Cow (2017)
★★★★☆
Funny Cow showcases Maxine Peake’s versatility when she stars as a ground-breaking female comedian surviving in the misogynistic Seventies.