★★★, Argentina, BFI Flare 2026, Chris Drew, Drama, out now, queer, Reviews, romance, USA

BFI Flare 2026: Drunken Noodles (2025)

By Chris Drew

★★★★☆
With artistic and poetic inspirations, Lucio Castro’s Drunken Noodles unfolds across four chapters following Adnam, and the people he encounters, across two summers in and around New York.

★★★★, BFI Flare 2025, Brazil, Chris Drew, out now, Reviews, thriller

BFI Flare 2025: Night Stage (2025) (Ato Noturno)

By Chris Drew

★★★★☆
The affair between a young actor and a politician comes under increasing threat as their public profiles grow and the stakes rise in erotic thriller Night Stage from writer/directors Filipe Matzembacher and Marcio Reolon.

★★★, BFI Flare 2026, Canada, Chris Drew, comedy, out now, queer

BFI Flare 2026: Lunar Sway (2026)

By Chris Drew

★★★★☆
Cliff’s small-town existence is disrupted by the arrival of Marg who claims to be his birth mother. Soon he is swept into her unorthodox adventures, while trying to learn about himself, in Nick Butler’s delightfully offbeat Lunar Sway.

★★★, BFI Flare 2026, London Flare, out now, queer, Reviews, UK, Women Filmmakers

BFI FLARE 2026: WASHED UP (2026)

By Chris Drew

★★★★☆
Isabel Daly’s feature directorial debut Washed Up is a quirky and moving British indie shining a unique light on life and love in Cornwall.

★★★★, BFI London Film Festival 2025, biopic, documentary, out now, UK, Venice Biennale 2025

Broken English (2025)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Marianne Faithfull is a much-misunderstood icon. Broken English, this documentary to set the record straight, made near the end of her life by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, also features myriad stars of music and film.

★★★★, Cannes Film Festival 2025, festivals, France, out now, Reviews

SIRAT (2025)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Sirat by Oliver Laxe is a desert survival story — and one of the year’s most gripping films