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Dog And Wolf - The independent film review magazine for the latest in world cinema and the best of the film festivals

Chris Drew

★★★★, out now, Reviews, Sundance, USADecember 9, 2022

A Love Song (2022)

By Chris Drew

★★★★☆
Dale Dickey plays a widow reflecting on life and love and the possibility of connection with an old friend in writer/director Max Walker-Silverman’s tender character study A Love Song.

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★★★★, biopic, Chris Drew, Female Filmmakers, Reviews, UK, USA, Women FilmmakersOctober 14, 2022

Emily (2022)

By Chris Drew

★★★★☆
Emily Brontë’s creative inspiration is explored through an imagined version of the author’s short life in Frances O’Connor’s stirring directorial debut Emily.

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★★★, Chris Drew, out now, Pathé, Reviews, UKOctober 5, 2022

The Lost King (2022)

By Chris Drew

★★★☆☆
Sally Hawkins stars as an amateur historian in search of the grave of King Richard III in director Stephen Frears’ uplifting true-story drama The Lost King.

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★★★, BFI Flare 2022, Chris Drew, out now, Reviews, sport, UKSeptember 22, 2022

In From The Side (2022)

By Chris Drew

★★★☆☆
Sparks fly when Mark meets Warren at the rugby club and soon the pair are embroiled in an illicit affair facing consequences on and off pitch in director Matt Carter’s In From The Side.

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★★★, Canada, Chris Drew, out now, Reviews, UK, USASeptember 16, 2022

The Forgiven (2021)

By Chris Drew

★★★☆☆
The unexpected consequences and repercussions of a terrible accident in the Moroccan desert are explored in The Forgiven, John Michael McDonagh’s adaptation of Lawrence Osbourne’s 2012 novel, starring Ralph Fiennes and Jessica Chastain.

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★★★, BFI London Film Festival 2020, Flare, London Film Festival 2020, out now, queer, USANovember 1, 2021

Cicada (2020)

By Chris Drew

★★★★☆
In Cicada by Matt Fifer and Kieran Mulcare, a twenty-something in New York finds love but his life is clouded by the memories of childhood abuse and the pain of not knowing how to deal with it.

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★★★★, Chris Drew, Female Filmmakers, Ireland, London Film Festival 2020, out now, Reviews, UKSeptember 13, 2021

Herself (2020)

By Chris Drew

★★★★☆
After escaping an abusive marriage, a young Irish mother’s plan to self-build a home is fraught with complications in director Phyllida Lloyd’s empowering Herself.

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★★★★, Chris Drew, Denmark, out now, ReviewsAugust 31, 2021

Shorta (2020)

By Chris Drew

★★★★☆
During a time of high police tension, two officers find themselves trapped in a notorious estate as riots break out in writer/directors Frederick Louis Hviid and Anders Ølholm’s gripping and timely Danish drama Shorta.

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★★★, Chris Drew, Cyprus, Greece, Italy, On Demand, queerJune 28, 2021

The Man with the Answers (2020)

By Chris Drew

★★★☆☆
A burgeoning connection with a stranger may deeply affect the life of an ex-diving champion in writer/director Stelios Kammitsis’s charming but slight The Man with the Answers.

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★★★★, Chris Drew, London Film Festival 2020, out now, queer, UKJune 20, 2021

Supernova (2020)

By Chris Drew

★★★★☆
Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci are superb in Harry MCQueen’s Supernova, this intimate portrayal of a couple facing a challenging future with one of them suffering from early onset dementia.

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★★★, Amazon, Chris Drew, comedy, Disney+, Netflix, On Demand, out now, Sundance, USAApril 22, 2021

Black Bear (2020) – ON DEMAND

By Chris Drew

★★★ώ☆
A creatively frustrated film director’s tumultuous visit to a young couple’s lake house may reignite her creative vision in writer/director Lawrence Michael Levine’s Black Bear.

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★★★★, Australia, Chris Drew, On Demand, out now, queer, Reviews, SundanceApril 7, 2021

Sequin in a Blue Room (2019) – on demand

By Chris Drew

★★★★☆
An Australian teen’s obsession with an anonymous sex app ventures into dangerous territory when he is invited into the Blue Room in Samuel Van Grinsven’s stylish gay thriller Sequin in a Blue Room.

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★★, BFI Flare 2021, BFI Player, Chris Drew, Estonia, On Demand, out now, queer, Reviews, UKMarch 28, 2021

BFI Flare: Firebird (2021) – on demand

By Chris Drew

★★☆☆☆
At an Estonian air base in the Cold War a junior officer falls for a new lieutenant, leading to a forbidden romance which affects a number of lives in director Peeter Rebane’s romantic drama Firebird.

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★★★, BFI Flare 2021, BFI Player, Chris Drew, On Demand, out now, queer, Reviews, USAMarch 28, 2021

BFI Flare: Jump, Darling (2020) – on demand

By Chris Drew

★★★☆☆
Following a break-up, a struggling drag queen visits his ailing grandmother in the country and finds himself staying as the pair support each other in various ways in writer/director Phil Connell’s Jump, Darling.

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