2024 Archives | Dog And Wolf

★★★★, Cannes Film Festival 2024, coming of age, Female Filmmakers, first feature, France, out nowApril 7, 2025

Holy Cow (2024)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Holy Cow, co-written and directed by Louise Courvoisier, is a lovely, involving coming-of-age story set in rural France.

★★★, Alexa Dalby, BFI London Film Festival 2024, BFI Player, comedy, Ireland, out now, queer, Reviews, UKApril 3, 2025

★★★☆☆
Loosely based on the gentle, charming Italian 2008 film Mid-August Lunch, a national holiday when cities are deserted, Four Mothers, directed by Darren Thornton, opens out into a broader Irish take on getting old and being gay.

★★★★, Belgium, BFI London Film Festival 2024, Finland, out now, Peccadillo, queer, Sundance, UKApril 1, 2025

Sebastian (2024)

By Chris Drew

★★★★☆
A young writer dives into the world of sex work for content for his debut novel: soon the lines between research and reality become blurred in writer-director Mikko Mäkelä’s Sebastian.

★★★, Argentina, BFI Flare 2025, Brazil, Chris Drew, first feature, France, out now, ReviewsMarch 31, 2025

BFI Flare: The Pleasure is Mine (2024) (El Placer es Mío)

By Chris Drew

★★★☆☆
Young bisexual Antonio drifts through life lying, stealing, and using people while feeling incapable of love in writer-director Sacha Amaral’s Buenos Aires-set character study The Pleasure Is Mine.

★★★★, BFI Flare 2025, Canada, Mubi, out now, queer, ReviewsMarch 27, 2025

BFI Flare: Cherub (2024)

By Chris Drew

★★★★☆
Lonely scientist Harvey lives a solitary life but discovering Cherub, a magazine for larger men and their admirers, leads to unexpected confidence and joy in writer-director Devin Shears’ Cherub.

★★★, BFI London Film Festival 2024, Cannes Film Festival 2024, France, out now, queer, ReviewsMarch 27, 2025

Misericordia (2024) (Miséricorde)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
Misericordia by Alain Guiraudie is an entertaining and disturbing mixture of sex and death.

★★★, BFI London Film Festival 2024, BFI Player, documentary, out now, Reviews, UKMarch 27, 2025

The Stimming Pool (2024)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
April is Autism Acceptance Month and Peckhamplex has a special screening of The Stimming Pool, made by The Neurocultures Collective.

★★★★, BFI London Film Festival 2024, BFI Player, Female Filmmakers, first feature, out now, Reviews, UKMarch 11, 2025

On Falling (2024)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
On Falling, a first feature directed by Laura Carreira, is a worthy addition to the Ken Loach trilogy on Sixteen Films: the lives of people struggling on low-wage or zero-hours contracts.

★★★★, biopic, out now, Reviews, USA, Venice Biennale 2024January 15, 2025

A Complete Unknown (2024)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
A Complete Unknown is an excellently written and acted, star-studded (Timothée Chalamet) biopic directed by James Mangold of four crucial early years in the life of iconoclastic genius, musician and poet, Nobel Prize-winning Bob Dylan.