Old Boys (2018)
★★★☆☆
Old Boys by Toby MacDonald, starring Alex Lauther is a witty, quirky, coming-of-age story that’s a cross between Cyrano de Bergerac and The Go-Between, with maybe a hint of The History Boys.
Sweden
The House That Jack Built (2018)
★★★★☆
Lars von Trier shocks and provokes in bloody, violent, sadistic The House That Jack Built.
The Wild Pear Tree (2018)
★★★★★
The Wild Pear Tree (Ahlat Agaci) is a masterpiece by Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan.
BFI LFF Review: Holiday (2018)
★★★★☆
Holiday is a beautifully brutal first feature from Isabella Eklöf about a petty drug lord’s girlfriend who is in for a holiday she’ll never forget in a vicious, powerful and fresh look at the gangster genre.
BFI LFF 2018 previews (3)
★★★★☆
Previews from the London Film Festival 10-21 October – Border, Assassination Nation, Papi Chulo, Lizzie, The Guilty and Joy.
The Ciambra (2017)
★★★★☆
The Ciambra is an extraordinary first feature by Jonas Carpignano, a follow-up to Mediterraneo, that has ordinary people, non-professional actors, playing fictionalised versions of themselves in a reality-rooted drama.
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
The Magic Flute (1975)
★★★☆☆
Ingmar Bergman’s version of Mozart’s The Magic Flute is a magical fairy tale of a production.
The Square (2017)
★★★★☆
Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or-winning The Square is a chilling satire on the pretensions of art and Sweden’s comfortable society.
The Nile Hilton Incident (2017)
★★★☆☆
Tarik Saleh’s The Nile Hilton Incident unravels a noir thriller against the political background of Egypt’s revolution in 2011.
Brimstone (2016)
★★★★☆
Brimstone is an almost unbearably violent take on the Western with a strong female character at its centre.
Borg vs McEnroe (2017)
★★★☆☆
Janus Metz’s Borg vs McEnroe recreates Wimbledon 1980 and delves into the winning psychology of the two tennis rivals.