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‘Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget’ Review: This Bird Barely Flies | LFF

The 2000 Aardman animated film Chicken Run is about as close to a perfect family film as you can get.… Read More

October 14, 2023

‘Cobweb’ Review: Song Kang-ho is Pitch-perfect in this Delirious Meta-Comedy | LFF

Writer-director Jim Jee-woon reteams with Parasite actor Song Kang-ho in this delirious, self-knowing satire on the filmmaking process. Cobweb asks… Read More

October 13, 2023

‘Only the River Flows’ Review: Wei Shujun’s Gritty Neo-Noir Grips with Old-Fashioned Storytelling | LFF

People are innately intrigued with murder mysteries and the reasonings behind such violent and heinous acts. It’s human nature to… Read More

October 6, 2023

Emerald Fennell’s ‘Saltburn’ to open 67th BFI London Film Festival

Amazon Studios and MGM announced today that Saltburn, Emerald Fennell's follow-up to her Oscar-winning debut Promising Young Woman, will open… Read More

August 7, 2023

‘Lady Chatterly’s Lover’ review: Little to love beyond Emma Corrin and Jack O’Connell’s performances in Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre’s listless adaptation | LFF

A spirit of thoughtless anachronism looms over Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Netflix’s crude and cynical attempt at seeing… Read More

October 17, 2022

‘Inland’ review: Mark Rylance enchants in this realistic yet enigmatic folklore-influenced directorial debut from Fridtjof Ryder | LFF

English writer-director Fridtjof Ryder's directorial debut is a taut, well-made micro budget feature. After a successful crowdfunding campaign and production… Read More

October 16, 2022

‘No Bears’ review: Jafar Panahi turns the camera on himself in powerful, subtly playful examination of limits personal, political and artistic | LFF

The remarkable prolificacy of Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi, and the even-more-remarkable spirit of subversiveness that has only burgeoned in his… Read More

October 16, 2022

‘Nanny’ review: Predictability hobbles what could have been a fascinating take on the horror of trauma | LFF

It is both the blessing and the burden of just about every modern horror movie that it must be about… Read More

October 13, 2022

‘Blue Jean’ review: Georgia Oakley’s searing feature debut is a remarkably poignant British drama of the viciously homophobic Thatcher era [A] | LFF

It’s 1988 in Tyneside, North East England, and Margaret Thatcher has been Prime Minister for a year when the conservative… Read More

October 10, 2022

‘The Phantom of the Open’ review: Mark Rylance hits an ace in endearing sports comedy [Grade B+] (London Film Festival)

Craig Roberts’ latest sees Mark Rylance delivering the most endearing performance of the year, he is incredibly lovable. Obviously, with… Read More

October 15, 2021

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