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: 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.
Cannes Film Festival 2019: Day 9
★★★★☆
Cannes Film Festival 2019: Day 9
Cannes Film Festival: Beanpole (2019)
★★★★☆
Beanpole by Kantemir Balagov is the bleak, devastating aftermath of a Leningrad destroyed by war.
Cannes Film Festival: Sorry We Missed You (2019)
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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Cannes Film Festival: Les Misérables (2019)
★★★★☆
Les Misérables is the explosive first feature from Ladj Ly, referencing Victor Hugo’s classic social commentary amid violently erupting present-day social tensions.
Cannes Film Festival: Atlantiques (Atlantics) (2019)
★★★★☆
Atlantics (Atlantiques) is Mati Diop’s dreamlike feature debut focusing on the women left behind when Senegalese migrant workers take to the seas.
Cannes Film Festival 2019: Day 3
★★★★☆
Cannes Film Festival 2019: Day 3
Cannes Film Festival: Bacurau (2019)
★★★★☆
Bacurau by Kleber Mendonça Filho is an exhilarating mixture of genres – political satire, western, science fiction – underpinned by savage political and social comment. It’s a blast.
Birds of Passage (2018)
★★★★☆
In Birds of Passage, directed by Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra, the violent birth of Colombia’s drug trade destroys a unique traditional culture.
Wild Rose (2018)
★★★★☆
Jessie Buckley is superb as an aspiring country singer determined to break from her past and get to Nashville in director Tom Harper’s Glasgow-set Wild Rose.
Pond Life (2018)
★★★★☆
It’s impossible not to be charmed and touched by Pond Life, directed by Bill Buckhurst.