movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Mon Oct 22
Sandi Tan writes and directs documentary Shirkers; Audrey Wells writes and Amandla Stenberg stars in teen drama The Hate U Give; more…
Beautiful Boy movie review: emotionally wrenching drug depiction (LFF 2018)
This portrait of drug addiction and its impact on a family may be Hollywood sleek and smooth, but its authenticity is in the empathy, in the lack of judgment. Steve Carell is absolutely heartbreaking.
Fahrenheit 11/9 documentary review: America is burning (LFF 2018)
In his latest righteous broadside, Michael Moore takes on Donald Trump as but a symptom of the political rot in the United States. Upsetting, enraging, exhausting… which is just as it should be.
Hunter Killer movie review: dead in the water
The Hunt for Red October as made by a Michael Bay wannabe who can’t even rise to the level of giving-a-propagandistic-crap. Absurd geopolitics and laugh-out-loud clichés abound; tension and excitement do not.
movies by or about women opening US/Can from Wed Oct 17
Elizabeth Chomko directs family drama What They Had; Marielle Heller directs literary-forging dramedy Can You Ever Forgive Me?; plus a whole bunch of documentaries directed by women…
movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Fri Oct 19
Adina Pintilie directs arthouse docudrama Touch Me Not; Cristina Costantini codirects documentary Science Fair; and there’s not a lot else…
Halloween (2018) movie review: all tricks, few treats
A minor fan-fiction take on the franchise’s mythology: Hey, maybe middle-aged Laurie Strode likes guns LOL? Nowhere near as feminist or as psychologically incisive as it thinks it is. And it’s not even scary.
Sadie movie review: coming of age the hard way
This tale of a teenaged girl’s crossing the boundary from childhood to too-early adulthood, simultaneously a portrait of a society quietly yet inexorably collapsing, has a disturbing power that sneaks up on you.
movies by or about women opening US/Can from Fri Oct 12
Megan Griffiths directs troubled-teen drama Sadie; Polly Draper directs romantic comedy Stella’s Last Weekend; more…
movies by or about women opening UK/Ire from Fri Oct 12
Leanne Welham directs social-justice drama Pili; Clare Sera cowrites animated comedy Smallfoot; and not much more…
