Festival Review: God’s Own Country (2017)
★★★☆☆
A gay romance set high in the Yorkshire moors, Francis Lee’s God’s Own Country is a no-nonsense evocation of hard-won life in the country.
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The Party (2017)
★★★★☆
With a whipcracking script and a stellar cast, Sally Potter’sThe Party is an uproarious comedy with a nostalgic whiff.
Viceroy’s House
★★★☆☆
An upstairs-downstairs portrait of Indian independence and Partition, Gurinder Chadha’s Viceroy’s House is a history lesson with a big heart.
Prevenge (2016)
★★★★☆
Prevenge is a darkly funny directorial debut for Alice Lowe, who also stars as a pregnant serial killer.
T2 Trainspotting (2017)
★★★★☆
T2 Trainspotting is Danny Boyle’s brilliant follow-up reunites the original cast of the iconic original for more filmic pyrotechnics.
Denial (2016)
★★★★☆
Timothy Spall excels in Mick Jackson’s Denial, a timely film whose high spot is a gripping courtroom drama.
A United Kingdom (2016)
★★★★☆
Director Amma Asante evokes a powerful interracial love story that threatened the British Empire.
Generation Revolution (2016)
Young black political activism and idealism in London is revealed in Generation Revolution, a powerful documentary by first-time directors Usayd Younis and Cassie Quarless.
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The Comedian’s Guide to Survival (2016)
James Mullinger’s and Mark Murphy’s The Comedian’s Guide to Survival takes the hard-won life lessons of a struggling would-be stand-up and plays them for…
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Ethel and Ernest (2016)
A beautiful, very moving animation of Raymond Briggs’ graphic novel Ethel and Ernest, voiced by Jim Broadbent and Brenda Blethyn. It’s a tribute to…
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BFI LFF 2016: SPACESHIP (2016)
Spaceship is a dreamlike, semi-psychedlic, free-flowing story of teenage cyber goths and alien abductions. Spaceship CAUTION: Here be spoilers A spaceship is what gets…
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BFI LFF 2016: The Levelling (2016)
The Levelling is an unusual, well-made British first feature from writer and director Hope Dickson Leach. The Levellling CAUTION: Here be spoilers Set on…
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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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