BFI LFF Review: The Guilty (2018)
★★★★☆
Truth and justice clash in The Guilty (Den skyldige), Gustav Möller’s claustrophobic thriller , where no-one can walk away with their innocence intact.
2018
BFI LFF Review: Monrovia, Indiana (2018)
★★★★☆
In Monrovia, Indiana, veteran documentarian Frederick Wiseman, compassionately chronicles life in small-town America.
BFI LFF Review: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)
★★★★☆
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is an anthology of six stories that the Coen Brothers use to hilariously and darkly both overturn and pay homage to the tropes of the pioneering days of the old West.
BFI LFF Review: Colette (2018)
★★★★☆
Keira Knightley dons a corset again to portray France’s greatest woman author Colette from country girlhood to scandalous adulthood in Wash Westmoreland’s Colette.
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.
BFI LFF 2018 previews (3)
★★★★☆
Previews from the London Film Festival 10-21 October – Border, Assassination Nation, Papi Chulo, Lizzie, The Guilty and Joy.
BFI LFF 2018 previews (2)
★★★★☆
Previews from the London Film Festival 10-21 October – Shadow, Jinn, The Breaker Upperers, May the Devil Take You and Support the Girls.
BFI LFF 2018 previews (1)
★★★★☆
Previews from the London Film Festival 10-21 October – Wildlife and Crystal Swan.
BFI LFF Review: Crystal Swan (2018)
★★★★☆
The female-centric team of director Darya Zhuk, co-screenwriter Helga Landauer and cinematographer Carolina Costa give Alina Nasibullina a Madonna-esque starring role in post-Soviet black comedy Crystal Swan (Khrustal).
Climax
★★★★☆
Gaspar Noé’s hallucinogenic Climax is as hard core as its bad trip.
62nd BFI London Film Festival 2018
★★★★☆
From 10-21 October, Britain’s foremost film festival, the BFI London Film Festival, will host 21 world premieres, nine international premieres and 29 European premieres.
Open City Documentary Festival 2018
★★★★☆
30 features, 48 shorts, 30+ countries! Astonishing debut Baronesa from Brazilian film maker Juliana Antunes opens the festival and it features the World Premiere of the inspirational H Is For Harry from Bafta-nominated British filmmaker Jaime Taylor.
The Heiresses/Las Herederas (2018)
★★★★☆
Economically crumbling Paraguay after many years of patriarchal dictatorship is the setting for a subtle story of female self-discovery in Marcelo Martinessi’s The Heiresses.
First Reformed (2018)
★★★★☆
Paul Schrader’s gripping First Reformed links spiritual and physical torment to the environmental threat to the future of the earth.