BFI LFF 2016: It’s Only The End Of The World (2016)
Xavier Dolan’s It’s Only The End Of The World is an intense, melodramatic family drama around the lunch table. It’s Only The End Of…
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BFI LFF 2016: FREE FIRE (2016)
Ben Wheatley’s Free Fire is a Tarantino-esque splatterfest of bullets and bad jokes. Free Fire CAUTION: Here be spoilers In a warehouse in Boston…
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BFI LFF 2016: Lion (2016)
Garth Davis’s Lion is a gripping, unsentimental adaptation of Saroo Brierley’s moving memoir. Film Title CAUTION: Here be spoilers Dev Patel carries the film…
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BFI LFF 2016: PATERSON (2016)
Jim Jarmusch celebrates the extraordinariness of ordinary life in Paterson. Paterson CAUTION: Here be spoilers Director Jim Jarmusch makes the ordinary look extraordinary in…
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BFI LFF 2016: ETHEL AND ERNEST (2016)
A beautiful, very moving animation of Raymond Briggs’ graphic novel Ethel and Ernest, voiced by Jim Broadbent and Brenda Blethyn. Ethel and Ernest CAUTION:…
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BFI LFF 2016: Staying Vertical (2016)
★★★☆☆
As a scriptwriter turns shepherd, Alain Guiraudie’s Rester Vertical reveals an existence of fear and lusting in the Midi-Pyrénées.
BFI LFF 2016: PREVENGE (2016)
Prevenge is a darkly funny directorial debut for Alice Lowe, who also stars as a pregnant serial killer. Prevenge CAUTION: Here be spoilers Alice…
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BFI LFF 2016: NOCTURNAL ANIMALS (2016)
Nocturnal Animals, Tom Ford’s mesmerising second feature after the acclaimed A Single Man is a visually stunning and disturbingly gripping examination of the connection…
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BFI LFF 2016: THEIR FINEST (2016)
Danish director Lone Scherfig’s Their Finest is a very British romcom. Their Finest Set in a sympathetically recreated wartime London, Their Finest‘s script by…
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BFI LFF 2016: BRIMSTONE (2016)
★★★★☆
Brimstone is an almost unbearably violent take on the Western with a strong female character at its centre.
BFI LFF 2016: THE BIRTH OF A NATION (2016)
★★★☆☆
The Birth of a Nation is director Nate Parker’s emotional condemnation of America’s brutal history of slavery through the true story of one man who led a rebellion.
BFI LFF 2016: ARRIVAL (2016)
★★★★☆
Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival is a highly original, thrilling and mind-boggling take on close encounters.
BFI LFF 2016: MANCHESTER BY THE SEA (2016)
★★★★☆
Kenneth Lonergan’s Manchester by the Sea is well-crafted, superbly acted film for grown-ups.
BFI LFF 2016: LA LA LAND (2016)
★★★★☆
Whiplash director Damien Chazelle’s La La Land is a bittersweet musical love letter to Hollywood and Los Angeles.