BFI LFF Review: Holiday (2018)
★★★★☆
Holiday is a beautifully brutal first feature from Isabella Eklöf about a petty drug lord’s girlfriend who is in for a holiday she’ll never forget in a vicious, powerful and fresh look at the gangster genre.
★★★★
Anchor & Hope (2017)
★★★★☆
Anchor & Hope is a fresh and funny romcom by Carlos Marqués-Marcet, director of 10,000 km, about the different kinds of lifestyles that people who really care for each other can make for themselves.
The Guilty (Den skyldige) (2018)
★★★★☆
Set in a down-beat, dark emergency call centre, The Guilty is a Danish thriller directed by Gustav Möller that takes place in claustrophobic real time, centred on a single character.
Dogman (2018)
★★★★☆
Dogman is a powerful Italian neorealist fable by Matteo Garrone with an award-winning performance by Marcello Fonte.
BFI LFF Review: Burning (2018)
★★★★☆
Burning is an elliptical thriller directed by Lee Chang-dong that’s rooted in Korean class and income inequalities.
BFI LFF Review: Peterloo (2018)
★★★★☆
The irony of Mike Leigh’s latest film Peterloo about demanding political representation is that almost 200 years later, this week people are marching for practically the same reasons – to demand a people’s vote, this time on Brexit.
BFI LFF Review: They Shall Not Grow Old (2018)
★★★★☆
They Shall Not Grow Old, Peter Jackson’s homage to his grandfather, is a technically brilliant remastering, colouring and voicing of First World War footage into 3D to show the horror and futility of war for its ordinary foot soldiers.
BFI LFF Review: 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.
BFI LFF Review: The Guilty (2018)
★★★★☆
Truth and justice clash in The Guilty (Den skyldige), Gustav Möller’s claustrophobic thriller , where no-one can walk away with their innocence intact.
BFI LFF Review: Monrovia, Indiana (2018)
★★★★☆
In Monrovia, Indiana, veteran documentarian Frederick Wiseman, compassionately chronicles life in small-town America.
BFI LFF Review: Colette (2018)
★★★★☆
Keira Knightley dons a corset again to portray France’s greatest woman author Colette from country girlhood to scandalous adulthood in Wash Westmoreland’s Colette.
BFI LFF Review: Widows (2018)
★★★★☆
Steve McQueen’s Widows is a hugely entertaining, violent, female-centred heist thriller that starts with a bang and never stops. It has tension, surprises and multiple gasp-making twists and turns.
BFI LFF 2018 previews (1)
★★★★☆
Previews from the London Film Festival 10-21 October – Wildlife and Crystal Swan.
Climax
★★★★☆
Gaspar Noé’s hallucinogenic Climax is as hard core as its bad trip.