Burning (2018)
★★★★☆
Burning is an elliptical, deceptive thriller directed by Lee Chang-dong that’s rooted in Korean class and income inequalities.
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Widows (2018)
★★★★☆
Steve McQueen’s Widows is a hugely entertaining, violent, female-centred heist thriller that starts with a bang and never lets up thanks to co-screenwriter Gone Girl’s Gillian Lynn’s reimagination of Lynda LaPlante’s 1983 TV series.
The Guilty (Den skyldige) (2018)
★★★★☆
Set in a down-beat, dark emergency call centre, The Guilty is a Danish thriller directed by Gustav Möller that takes place in claustrophobic real time, centred on a single character.
BFI LFF Review: Burning (2018)
★★★★☆
Burning is an elliptical thriller directed by Lee Chang-dong that’s rooted in Korean class and income inequalities.
BFI LFF Review: Widows (2018)
★★★★☆
Steve McQueen’s Widows is a hugely entertaining, violent, female-centred heist thriller that starts with a bang and never stops. It has tension, surprises and multiple gasp-making twists and turns.
Us and Them (2017)
★★★★☆
Joe Martin’s Us and Them is a violent riff on the inequalities of contemporary British society that incense articulate young working-class Danny (Jack Roth, channelling his father Tim) and what he does about it.
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.
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.
Strangled (2016)
★★★★☆
A gruesome serial killer thriller based on a disturbing true story, Árpád Sopsits’ Strangled reflects its post-revolution Hungarian setting.
Good Time (2017)
★★★★☆
A manic night of nonstop motion ensues as a small-time bank robber tries to free his brother in the Safdie brothers’ ironically titled thriller Good Time.
Thelma (2017)
★★★★☆
In Thelma, both the main protagonist and director Joachim Trier realise the potential of her psychic powers, culminating in a taut and shocking narrative that refuses to bow down to one particular genre.
French Film Festival UK: Wùlu (2016)
★★★★☆
Daouda Coulibaly’s Wùlu is a must-see, tense, contemporary West African thriller.
Brawl in Cell Block 99 (2017)
★★★☆☆
Brawl in Cell Block 99 is S. Craig Zahler’s grindhousefest and a new departure for Vince Vaughn.
BFI LFF: You Were Never Really Here (2017)
★★★★☆
You Were Never Really Here, Lynne Ramsay’s latest film is a dark, disturbing odyssey into the mind of a brutal yet tender hitman.