Gloria review: can you handle the truth?
A smart, incisive portrait of a woman who lives life on her own terms and doesn’t let herself get pushed around.
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Labor Day review: Stockholm-syndrome romance
A gooey nostalgic look back at that time a young boy’s mom fell in love with their kidnapper, presented under a sexy sweltering summer haze.
Gone Too Far! review (London Film Festival)
Something like a Shakespearean comedy, full of highly amusing, sharply drawn characters…
We Are the Best! (Vi är bäst!) movie review (LOCO London Comedy Film Festival)
An exuberant rock ’n’ roll comedy in which three of the most memorable movie teens ever embrace their adolescent angst and give it screaming voice.
Matterhorn review (LOCO London Comedy Film Festival)
It had me confounded, in the most delightful way, and left me with a big stupid grin on my face and tears in my eyes.
Doomsdays review (LOCO London Comedy Film Festival)
I see the harbingers of doom in this “pre-apocalyptic comedy,” but there’s nothing actually funny about it.
Parkland review (London Film Festival)
This poignant and painful ensemble drama about the lesser-known figures caught up in the JFK assassination reminds us that history happens to regular people, too.
Philomena review: suffer the women
A cry-till-you-laugh-dramedy about seeking lost family and finding new purpose; Judi Dench and Steve Coogan are fantastic. Seriously, though: bring Kleenex.
Computer Chess movie review (London Film Festival)
Dryly humorous and wonderfully weird, this is a preternaturally mundane evocation of early 80s nerdery and an almost scary peek at the history of AI.
Blue Is the Warmest Color review (London Film Festival)
There’s nothing particularly surprising here. Not even the rather tediously obvious 15-minute all-nude lesbian fuckfest.
