BFI LFF 2023: The Holdovers (2023)
★★★★☆
December 1970, a grumpy teacher forced to stay on campus over the holidays gradually bonds with a volatile teenager in Alexander Payne’s latest comedy drama The Holdovers.
★★★★
BFI LFF 2023: Only the River Flows (2023)
★★★★☆
Only the River Flows is a scintillating Chinese neo-noir, the third film directed by Wei Shujun.
The Old Oak (2023)
★★★★☆
The Old Oak, Ken Loach’s last film: the final part of his Northeast Trilogy and a distinguished, politically committed career.
Past Lives (2023)
★★★★☆
Universally acclaimed romantic Past Lives is an extraordinary feature debut by US/Korean Celine Song.
Venice Film Festival 2023: 30 August-9 September
★★★★☆
Venice Film Festival 2023
Passages (2023)
★★★★☆
Passages is Ira Sachs’ toxic European love triangle set in Paris, starring Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw and Adèle Exarchopoulos.
Scrapper (2023)
★★★★☆
Scrapper, an inventive, award-winning first feature written and directed by Charlotte Regan, was the crowd-pleasing opening film of the Sundance London Film Festival.
Galway Film Fleadh 11-16 July 2023
★★★★☆
Galway Film Fleadh 2023
Sundance London 2023 – Opening and Closing Films
★★★★☆
Sundance London 2023 Opening and Closing Films
Locarno Film Festival 2023
★★★★☆
Locarno Film Festival 2023
Mother and Son (2022) (Un Petit Frère)
★★★★☆
Mother and Son is an ★★★★☆
involving, compassionate film by Léonor Serraille that poignantly shows the difficulties and the effects on a family – both positive and negative – of immigration into a strange country.
La Syndicaliste (2022)
★★★★☆
Isabelle Huppert stars in Jean-Paul Salomé’s thriller and nuclear-industry investigation La Syndicaliste, based on the recent true story of French union official Maureen Kearney.
Reality (2023)
★★★★☆
25-year-old former American intelligence specialist Reality Winner is confronted by FBI agents arriving at her home. Based on true events, Tina Satter’s film’s dialogue is directly from the transcript of their tense, transfixing conversation.
Cannes Film Festival 2023: Day 5: 20 May 2023
★★★★☆
Cannes Film Festival 2023: Day 5: 20 May 2023