The Unknown Girl (2016)
★★★★☆
The Dardennes brothers’ The Unknown Girl is a bleak examination of guilt and personal responsibility.
★★★
Cannes Review: Toni Erdmann (2016)
★★★★☆
A feelgood father-and-daughter comedy, Maren Ade’s Toni Erdmann sees the joylessness of the corporate world undone by paternal clowning.
Denial (2016)
★★★★☆
Timothy Spall excels in Mick Jackson’s Denial, a timely film whose high spot is a gripping courtroom drama.
Wiener-Dog (2016)
★★★☆☆
A portrait of America through the eyes of a sausage dog and her owners, Todd Solondz’ Wiener-Dog sees a bizarre parade of melancholics and losers
Petting Zoo (2015)
★★★☆☆
A portrait of the artist as a pregnant teen, Micah Magee’s Petting Zoo is a sensitive study of a girl growing up and finding her way in Texas.
I Am Not A Serial Killer (2016)
★★★★☆
Billy O’Brien’s teen horror I Am Not a Serial Killer uncovers the dark, elderly underbelly of American suburbia.
The Birth of a Nation (2016)
★★★★☆
The Birth of a Nation is director Nate Parker’s emotional condemnation of America’s brutal history of slavery through the true story of one man who led a rebellion.
Indignation (2016)
★★★☆☆
Adapting Philip Roth’s novel, producer turned director James Schamus’ Indignation is a stylish but passionless feast of Fifties melancholia.
Generation Revolution (2016)
Young black political activism and idealism in London is revealed in Generation Revolution, a powerful documentary by first-time directors Usayd Younis and Cassie Quarless.
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Wùlu (2016)
★★★★☆
Daouda Coulibaly’s Wùlu is a must-see, tense, contemporary West African thriller.
The Comedian’s Guide to Survival (2016)
James Mullinger’s and Mark Murphy’s The Comedian’s Guide to Survival takes the hard-won life lessons of a struggling would-be stand-up and plays them for…
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BFI LFF 2016: SPACESHIP (2016)
Spaceship is a dreamlike, semi-psychedlic, free-flowing story of teenage cyber goths and alien abductions. Spaceship CAUTION: Here be spoilers A spaceship is what gets…
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BFI LFF 2016: The Levelling (2016)
The Levelling is an unusual, well-made British first feature from writer and director Hope Dickson Leach. The Levellling CAUTION: Here be spoilers Set on…
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BFI LFF 2016: It’s Only The End Of The World (2016)
Xavier Dolan’s It’s Only The End Of The World is an intense, melodramatic family drama around the lunch table. It’s Only The End Of…
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