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★★★★, biopic, festivals, London Film Festival 2016, Reviews, UKOctober 16, 2016

BFI LFF 2016: Lion (2016)

By Alexa Dalby

Garth Davis’s Lion is a gripping, unsentimental adaptation of Saroo Brierley’s moving memoir. Film Title CAUTION: Here be spoilers Dev Patel carries the film…

★★★★, festivals, London Film Festival 2016, Reviews, USAOctober 16, 2016

BFI LFF 2016: PATERSON (2016)

By Alexa Dalby

Jim Jarmusch celebrates the extraordinariness of ordinary life in Paterson. Paterson CAUTION: Here be spoilers Director Jim Jarmusch makes the ordinary look extraordinary in…

★★★★★, animation, festivals, London Film Festival 2016, Reviews, UKOctober 15, 2016

BFI LFF 2016: ETHEL AND ERNEST (2016)

By Alexa Dalby

A beautiful, very moving animation of Raymond Briggs’ graphic novel Ethel and Ernest, voiced by Jim Broadbent and Brenda Blethyn. Ethel and Ernest CAUTION:…

★★★★, comedy, festivals, London Film Festival 2015, Reviews, UKOctober 15, 2016

BFI LFF 2016: PREVENGE (2016)

By Alexa Dalby

Prevenge is a darkly funny directorial debut for Alice Lowe, who also stars as a pregnant serial killer. Prevenge CAUTION: Here be spoilers Alice…

★★★★★, London Film Festival 2016, Reviews, USAOctober 14, 2016

BFI LFF 2016: NOCTURNAL ANIMALS (2016)

By Alexa Dalby

Nocturnal Animals, Tom Ford’s mesmerising second feature after the acclaimed A Single Man is a visually stunning and disturbingly gripping examination of the connection…

★★★, comedy, festivals, London Film Festival 2016, Reviews, romance, UKOctober 13, 2016

BFI LFF 2016: THEIR FINEST (2016)

By Alexa Dalby

Danish director Lone Scherfig’s Their Finest is a very British romcom. Their Finest Set in a sympathetically recreated wartime London, Their Finest‘s script by…

★★★★, festivals, London Film Festival 2016, Reviews, thriller, USA, westernOctober 13, 2016

BFI LFF 2016: BRIMSTONE (2016)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
Brimstone is an almost unbearably violent take on the Western with a strong female character at its centre.

★★★, biopic, London Film Festival 2016, Reviews, USAOctober 13, 2016

BFI LFF 2016: THE BIRTH OF A NATION (2016)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
The Birth of a Nation is director Nate Parker’s emotional condemnation of America’s brutal history of slavery through the true story of one man who led a rebellion.