Sundance London: The Farewell (2019)
★★★★☆
The Farewell is a family comedy drama by Lulu Wang, starring Awkwafina as a young woman caught between the cultures of East and West through her love for her grandmother.
Americas
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.
Cannes Film Festival 2019: Day 11
★★★★☆
Cannes Film Festival 2019: Day 11
Cannes Film Festival 2019: Day 9
★★★★☆
Cannes Film Festival 2019: Day 9
Cannes Film Festival 2019: Day 8
★★★★☆
Cannes Film Festival 2019: Day 8
Cannes Film Festival: The Climb (2019)
★★★☆☆
In original, smart buddy comedy movie The Climb co-writer/directors Kyle Marvin and Michael Angelo Covino play two losers also called Kyle and Mike.
Cannes Film Festival 2019: Day 3
★★★★☆
Cannes Film Festival 2019: Day 3
Cannes Film Festival: Bacurau (2019)
★★★★☆
Bacurau by Kleber Mendonça Filho is an exhilarating mixture of genres – political satire, western, science fiction – underpinned by savage political and social comment. It’s a blast.
Cannes Film Festival 2019: Day 2
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Cannes Film Festival Day 2
Cannes Film Festival 2019: Day 1
★★★★☆
Opening Film Cannes Premiere – an ubercool deadpan zombie horror comedy by Jim Jarmusch that never quite come alive.
Birds of Passage (2018)
★★★★☆
In Birds of Passage, directed by Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra, the violent birth of Colombia’s drug trade destroys a unique traditional culture.
Amazing Grace (2018)
★★★★★
The late, great Aretha Franklin raises the roof singing gospel in Sidney Pollack’s unmissable Amazing Grace 1972 documentary.
Madeline’s Madeline (2018)
★★★★☆
Josephine Decker’s Madeline’s Madeline is a fragmented collage in image and sound of impressions – a disorientating, passionate welter of dreams, fantasy and reality – that tries to get inside the conflicted head of a 16-year-old aspiring actress.
Sundance London (2019)
★★★★☆
Sundance London 2019