STYX (2018)
★★★★☆
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Maborosi (1995)
★★★★☆
Following Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Cannes Palme d’Or winner and Oscar-nominated Shoplifters, UK audiences now get a chance to see the director’s earlier work Maborosi for the first time.
Loro (2018)
★★★★☆
Paolo Sorrentino’s Loro is an excoriating comment on the tacky corruption that surrounded the notorious former prime minister of Italy, Silvio Berlusconi.
Dragged Across Concrete (2018)
★★★☆☆
Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughan are cops going brutally rogue in Dragged Across Concrete, S. Craig Zahler’s third film after Bone Tomahawk and Brawl in Cell Block 99.
Greta (2018)
★★★☆☆
Neil Jordan’s Greta, starring Isabelle Huppert and Chloê Grace Moretz, is a well-acted, bonkers roller-coaster of horror and laughs.
Red Joan (2018)
★★★☆☆
The intriguing Red Joan, directed by Trevor Nunn and starring Judi Dench and Sophie Cookson, is inspired by a real-life, very British wartime spy story exposed 50 years on.
The Sisters Brothers (2018)
★★★★☆
The Sisters Brothers is a darkly funny, revisionist Western directed by Jacques Audiard.
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
★★★★☆
Stanley Kubrick’s must-see cult classic A Clockwork Orange is finally released in the UK.
Ben is Back (2018)
★★★☆☆
Julia Roberts plays a mother fighting to hold onto her relationship with her son in the face of his drug problems in writer/director Peter Hedges’ drama Ben is Back.
3 Faces (2018)
★★★★☆
3 Faces is Jafar Panahi’s fourth film since receiving a 30-year ban on filmmaking (or leaving Iran). It’s an involving, compelling, deeply ingrained criticism of the society it quietly observes.
Out of Blue (2018)
★★☆☆☆
Out of Blue by Carol Morley, the director of Dreams of a Life, is a metaphysical neo-noir, a Schrödinger’s cat of a film.
At Eternity’s Gate (2018)
★★★★☆
Willem Dafoe stunningly inhabits the outer shell of tormented artist Vincent Van Gogh in Julian Schnabel’s disturbing, arty biopic At Eternity’s Gate.
Eaten by Lions (2018)
★★★★☆
Eaten by Lions by Jason Wingard is a crisp and surreally comic film, starring an array of British comedy talent. It’s a more raffish and comedic East Is East for our times.
BFI Flare: London LGBTQ+ Film Festival 2019
★★★★☆
From 21-31 March, BFI Flare brings you the best new and classic LGBTQ+ films, events and more.