Once Upon A Time In Hollywood (2019)
★★★★☆
Quentin Tarantino’s ninth film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, melds the obsessions of his previous films into a mature masterpiece.
★★★★☆
Quentin Tarantino’s ninth film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, melds the obsessions of his previous films into a mature masterpiece.
★★★★☆
Marianne and Leonard: Words of Love is Nick Broomfield’s poignant, moving documentary about an enduring relationship between soulmates.
★★★★☆
Yesterday is a magical feel-good fairy tale for adults written by Richard Curtis and directed by Danny Boyle.
★★★★☆
Support the Girls, by Andrew Bujalski, is a funny, fast-paced workplace comedy drama that’s seriously on the side of its female characters.
★★★★☆
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.
★★★★☆
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.
★★★★☆
Dirty God is the personal, powerful story of an acid-attack victim played by Vicky Knight, directed by Sacha Polak.
★★★★☆
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.
★★★★☆
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.
★★★★☆
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 9
★★★★☆
Beanpole by Kantemir Balagov is the bleak, devastating aftermath of a Leningrad destroyed by war.
Sorry We Missed you is a coruscating anti-capitalist manifesto from veteran politically engaged filmmaker Ken Loach and his longtime collaborator and screenwriter Paul Laverty.
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