BFI LFF 2019: Previews (2-5 October)
★★★★☆
BFI London Film Festival previews 2-5 October: Recorder, Axone, Öndög, Clemency, The Warden, A Pleasure, Comrades! and The Antenna.
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The Last Tree (2019)
★★★★☆
Shola Amoo’s The Last Tree powerfully focuses on the crisis in black masculinity through the story of a Nigerian-heritage boy growing up in Britain.
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.
Photograph (2019)
★★★☆☆
Photograph is another sweet and wistful love story from the director of The Lunchbox, Ritesh Batra.
Thunder Road (2018)
★★★ώ☆
Thunder Road – Jim Cummings writes, directs and stars as Jim, a small-town cop negotiating multiple crises in this bittersweet comedy drama.
Late Night (2019)
★★★★☆
Late Night is a funny, clever crowd-pleaser starring Emma Thompson and Mindy Kaling that zings with laugh-out-loud one-liners – it’s directed by Nisha Ganatra of Transparent.
Sundance London: The Last Tree (2019)
Sundance London: After the Wedding (2019)
★★★☆☆
In After the Wedding Bart Freundlich piles unlikely event on unlikely event on Julianne Moore and Michelle Williams in a weepie melodrama that reaches emotional overload.
Sundance London: Corporate Animals (2019)
★★★☆☆
In Corporate Animals directed by Patrick Brice and written by Peep Show‘s Sam Bain, a team-building exercise in New Mexico for an edible cutlery company goes horribly and comically wrong.
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.
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.
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Amazing Grace (2018)
★★★★★
The late, great Aretha Franklin raises the roof singing gospel in Sidney Pollack’s unmissable Amazing Grace 1972 documentary.
Eighth Grade (2018)
★★★★★
The pressures and anxieties of a 14-year-old girl navigating eighth grade in the social media age are put under the microscope in writer/director Bo Burnham’s achingly observant little gem Eighth Grade.