Leave No Trace (2018)
★★★★☆
Debra Granik’s Leave No Trace is a sympathetic, realistic character study of a father and daughter trying to adapt to society after being off grid in a US wilderness.
Americas
Sundance London 2018
★★★★☆
Sundance London 2018: 31 May-3 June
Zama (2017)
★★★★☆
In Lucrecia Martel’s hallucinatory, dreamlike, absurdist Zama, Spanish colonialists take on South America and lose.
Filmworker (2017)
★★★★☆
Tony Zierra’s intriguing Filmworker tells Stanley Kubrick’s assistant Leon Vitali’s story and casts a hitherto-hidden light on the great director and his working methods.
Cannes Film Festival 2018: Day 10
★★★★☆
Cannes Film Festival 2018
Cannes Film Festival 2018: Day 9
★★★★☆
Cannes Film Festival 2018
Cannes Film Festival 2018: Day 8
★★★★☆
Cannes Film Festival 2018
Cannes Film Festival 2018: Day 7
★★★★☆
Cannes Film Festival 2018
Cannes Film Festival 2018: Day 2
★★★★☆
Cannes Film Festival 2018
How To Talk To Girls At Parties (2017)
★★★★☆
John Cameron Mitchell’s How To Talk To Girls At Parties is an unlikely mash-up of punk and aliens in the British suburbs.
Festival of Commonwealth Film 2018
★★★★☆
The first ever Festival of Commonwealth film is on 14 and 15 April at the British Library, London.
Thoroughbreds (2017)
★★★★☆
A film adapted from his stage play, Thoroughbreds is Corey Finley’s directorial debut. It’s a stylised teen thriller/black comedy of well-plotted cross and double-cross with two amoral central characters.
Isle of Dogs (2018)
★★★☆☆
Ruff cut – Wes Anderson’s surprise venture into animation in Isle of Dogs.
You Were Never Really Here (2017)
★★★★☆
You Were Never Really Here by Lynne Ramsay is a dark, disturbing odyssey into the mind of a brutal yet tender hitman.