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★★★★, BFI London Film Festival 2025, Female Filmmakers, out now, Reviews, UK, USAOctober 14, 2025

BFI LFF 2025: Hamnet (2025)

By Chris Drew

★★★★☆
The story of the marriage between Agnes and William Shakespeare and how unthinkable tragedy helped the playwright create Hamlet is told in Chloe Zhao’s emotional adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel Hamnet.

★★★, BFI London Film Festival 2025, Chris Drew, Female Filmmakers, out now, Reviews, UKOctober 14, 2025

BFI LFF 2025: H is for Hawk (2025)

By Chris Drew

★★★☆☆
Claire Foy plays an academic devastated by bereavement who finds solace in a connection with a goshawk in Philippa Lowthorpe’s true-story drama H is for Hawk.

★★★★, BFI London Film Festival 2025, Female Filmmakers, Germany, out now, TorontoOctober 11, 2025

BFI LFF 2025: Sound of Falling (2025): (In die Sonne schauen)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆

Mascha Schilinsky’s superb Sound of Falling is an immersive, fractured reflection on childhood, telling the story of four young girls from different eras.

★★, BFI London Film Festival 2025, biopic, Chris Drew, Female Filmmakers, festivals, out now, Reviews, UK, USAOctober 10, 2025

BFI LFF 2025: The Testament of Ann Lee (2025)

By Chris Drew

★★☆☆☆
Amanda Seyfried portrays the founder of the Shaker movement in director Mona Fastvold’s historical drama The Testament of Ann Lee, co-written by Brady Corbet.

★★★★, debut director, Drama, festivals, First-time filmmakers, out now, Picturehouse, Reviews, UKOctober 3, 2025

Urchin (2025)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
In , the pacy, heart-breaking, award-winning first feature by actor Harris Dickinson, a young man on the streets of London embarks on an urban odyssey in hopes of re-assimilating into society.

★★, comedy, France, out now, ReviewsOctober 3, 2025

The Kitchen Brigade (2022)

By Alexa Dalby

★★☆☆☆
The Kitchen Brigade is a wish-fulfilment comedy about the topical issue of migration to the European Union.

★★★, Chris Drew, horror, out now, Reviews, USAOctober 3, 2025

Good Boy (2025)

By Chris Drew

★★★★☆
A man beset by illness heads to his grandfather’s rural home which may be plagued by mysterious spirits, as acutely observed through the eyes of the man’s loyal dog Indy in Good Boy.

★★★★, Awards, festivals, out now, ReviewsSeptember 27, 2025

Busan Film Festival 2025: 17-26 September: Awards

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Busan Film Festival 2025 Awards

★★★★, documentary, Female Filmmakers, out now, Reviews, Sundance, USASeptember 21, 2025

The Librarians (2025)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Oscar-nominated The Librarians, directed by Kim A Snyder and executive produced by Sarah Jessica Parker, is a documentary about the unlikely defenders of intellectual freedom in schools in Trump’s changing USA.

festivals, JapanSeptember 18, 2025

Tokyo Film Festival: Tokyo Taxi (2025)

By Alexa Dalby

Tokyo Taxi, a remake of Driving Madeleine, directed by Yamada Yoji, announced as the 38th TIFF Centerpiece. The Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) is…