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★★★, Reviews, UKJuly 24, 2019

Tell It To The Bees (2018)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
Tell It To The Bees by Annabel Jankel is a 1950s coming-of-age story that fails to convince.

★★, biopic, Ireland, UKJuly 4, 2019

Vita and Virginia (2018)

By Alexa Dalby

★★☆☆☆
Vita and Virginia by Chanya Button is a literary biopic doesn’t do justice to its iconic protagonists.

★★★★, Reviews, UKJune 28, 2019

Yesterday (2019)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Yesterday is a magical feel-good fairy tale for adults written by Richard Curtis and directed by Danny Boyle.

★★★, comedy, horror, London Film Festival 2018, Reviews, UKJune 25, 2019

In Fabric (2018)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
In Fabric is director Peter Strickland’s latest giallo-influenced horror with a pastiche, absurd ‘70s feel.

★★★, biopic, Chris Drew, documentary, France, ReviewsJune 20, 2019

John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection (2018)

By Chris Drew

★★★☆☆
John McEnroe’s fiery artistry on court is put under the microscope in Julien Faraut’s unique documentary John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection, which examines tennis as theatrical performance.

★★★, Cannes Film Festival 2018, FranceJune 20, 2019

Amin (2018)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
Amin by Philippe Faucon is an inconclusive cross-continent, cross-race contemporary migration story with one fascinating foot in Senegal and one in France.

★★★★, France, London Film Festival 2017June 13, 2019

A Season in France (2017)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
A Season in France is Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s moving film focusing on the plight of a father and his family, asylum seekers in the grip of hostile bureaucracy.

★★★★, comedy, Drama, London Film Festival 2018, Reviews, UKJune 13, 2019

Sometimes Always Never (2018)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Sometimes Always Never, directed by Carl Hunter, is a delightfully quirky film puzzle that revolves around Scrabble and that always-compelling national treasure Bill Nighy.

★★★, comedy, festivals, Reviews, UKJune 10, 2019

Festival Review: Dead Fred (2019)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Dead Fred is a dark comedy about shady goings-on in a sunny New Forest location to die for, directed in an Ealing comedy vein by Deanna Dewey and starring Sandra Dickinson.

★★★★, Belgium, Ireland, Netherlands, UKJune 8, 2019

Dirty God (2019)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Dirty God is the personal, powerful story of an acid-attack victim played by Vicky Knight, directed by Sacha Polak.

★★★★, Black filmmakers, Reviews, Sundance London 2019, UKMay 30, 2019

Sundance London: The Last Tree (2019)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Shola Amoo’s The Last Tree, like Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight, powerfully focuses on the crisis in black masculinity, this time though the three-part story of a Nigerian boy growing up in Britain.

★★★★★, France, Hungary, London Film Festival 2018May 27, 2019

Sunset (2018)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Sunset (Napszállt) by László Nemes is must-see, tour de force, immersive filmmaking that captures a chaotic watershed in 20th century European history.