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★★★★, France, London Film Festival 2017June 13, 2019

A Season in France (2017)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
A Season in France is Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s moving film focusing on the plight of a father and his family, asylum seekers in the grip of hostile bureaucracy.

★★★★, comedy, Drama, London Film Festival 2018, Reviews, UKJune 13, 2019

Sometimes Always Never (2018)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Sometimes Always Never, directed by Carl Hunter, is a delightfully quirky film puzzle that revolves around Scrabble and that always-compelling national treasure Bill Nighy.

★★★, comedy, festivals, Reviews, UKJune 10, 2019

Festival Review: Dead Fred (2019)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Dead Fred is a dark comedy about shady goings-on in a sunny New Forest location to die for, directed in an Ealing comedy vein by Deanna Dewey and starring Sandra Dickinson.

★★★★, Belgium, Ireland, Netherlands, UKJune 8, 2019

Dirty God (2019)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Dirty God is the personal, powerful story of an acid-attack victim played by Vicky Knight, directed by Sacha Polak.

★★★, Chile, USAJune 8, 2019

Gloria Bell (2018)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Gloria Bell, starring Julianne Moore, is director Sebastián Lelio’s ill-advised English-language remake of his Gloria.

★★★★, comedy, Sundance London 2019, USAMay 30, 2019

Late Night (2019)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Late Night is a funny, clever crowd-pleaser starring Emma Thompson and Mindy Kaling that zings with laugh-out-loud one-liners – it’s directed by Nisha Ganatra of Transparent.

★★★★, Black filmmakers, Reviews, Sundance London 2019, UKMay 30, 2019

Sundance London: The Last Tree (2019)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Shola Amoo’s The Last Tree, like Barry Jenkins’ Moonlight, powerfully focuses on the crisis in black masculinity, this time though the three-part story of a Nigerian boy growing up in Britain.

★★★, Reviews, Sundance London 2019, USAMay 30, 2019

Sundance London: After the Wedding (2019)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
In After the Wedding Bart Freundlich piles unlikely event on unlikely event on Julianne Moore and Michelle Williams in a weepie melodrama that reaches emotional overload.

★★★, comedy, horror, Reviews, Sundance London 2019, USAMay 28, 2019

Sundance London: Corporate Animals (2019)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
In Corporate Animals directed by Patrick Brice and written by Peep Show‘s Sam Bain, a team-building exercise in New Mexico for an edible cutlery company goes horribly and comically wrong.

★★★★, festivals, Sundance London 2019, USAMay 28, 2019

Sundance London: The Farewell (2019)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
The Farewell is a family comedy drama by Lulu Wang, starring Awkwafina as a young woman caught between the cultures of East and West through her love for her grandmother.

★★★★, biopic, documentary, Sundance London 2019, USAMay 28, 2019

Sundance London: The Brink (2019)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
The Brink by Alison Klayman is a must-see documentary following dangerous eminence grise Steve Bannon over the crucial period of the US midterms and the EU elections.

★★★★★, France, Hungary, London Film Festival 2018May 27, 2019

Sunset (2018)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Sunset (Napszállt) by László Nemes is must-see, tour de force, immersive filmmaking that captures a chaotic watershed in 20th century European history.