Borg vs McEnroe (2017)
★★★☆☆
Janus Metz’s Borg vs McEnroe recreates Wimbledon 1980 and delves into the winning psychology of the two tennis rivals.
biopic
Maudie (2016)
★★★★☆
Aisling Walsh’s biopic inspires a transcendent performance from Sally Hawkins as Nova Scotian folk painter Maudie.
PRIDE IN THE UK: MILK (2008)
★★★★☆
Starting Pride in the UK, a retrospective screening of Gus Van Sant’s Milk and panel discussion with members include Stuart Milk (Harvey Milk Foundation), Ninette Murk (Designers Against AIDS) and musician Shura.
Churchill (2017)
★★★☆☆
Jonathan Teplitzky’s Churchill focuses on the tragedy of a previously indomitable, ageing leader recognising his failing powers to command in wartime in the tense lead-up to D-Day.
Cannes review: Rodin (2017)
★★★★☆
Rodin is a ploddingly, inexplicably uninteresting biopic of the revolutionary sculptor by Jacques Doillon.
Interlude in Prague (2017)
★★★★☆
John Stephenson OBE’s take on Mozart’s making of Don Giovanni is a romantic farrago of beautiful costumes and music in Interlude in Prague.
Letters from Baghdad (2016)
★★★★☆
Clever use of previously unseen archive footage and original letters brings to life the extraordinary story of a forgotten female Lawrence of Arabia in fascinating biopic Letters from Baghdad.
A Quiet Passion (2016)
★★★★☆
A portrait of the poet as a young revolutionary, Terence Davies’ Emily Dickinson biopic A Quiet Passion sees a fiercely independent woman martyred.
Neruda (2016)
★★★★☆
Another Mother’s Son (2017)
★★★★☆
Another Mother’s Son is a true story of wartime courage and a mother’s love starring Jenny Seagrove and a cast of well-known British actors, directed by Christopher Menaul.
Hidden Figures (2016)
★★★★☆
In Hidden Figures Theodore Melfi reveals the hitherto hidden story of the African American women maths geniuses who got America to the moon.
Le jeune Karl Marx (2017)
★★☆☆☆
Filmed in French, German and English, Raoul Peck’s Le jeune Karl Marx is an erudite rendition of Marx’s journey to Das Kapital.
Django (2017)
★★★☆☆
Giving a face to the plight of Roma and Sinti during the Final Solution, Etienne Comar’s Django makes a strange hero of the King of Swing.
Jackie (2016)
★★★★☆
Pablo Larrain’s portrait of a widowed Jackie Kennedy in the days following the President’s assassination has intriguing contemporary resonance.