Green Room movie review: waiting-room hell (LFF 2015)
Blue Ruin’s Jeremy Saulnier is back with a smart, savage, dryly funny horror flick that has something to say about all-too-human monsters. No spoilers!
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Suffragette movie review: then they fight you (LFF 2015)
The first feature film ever about the women who fought for their right to vote is glorious. It is angry and passionate and defiant. It is essential.
Index Zero movie review (Edinburgh International Film Festival)
Smart, thoughtful science fiction that’s about ideas, not spectacle, with an extra kick of cautionary-tale warning in light of current events.
Wild movie review (London Film Festival)
A film full of spectacular landscapes of both the natural world and the human spirit. This is what it looks like when women get to be people onscreen.
Electricity movie review (London Film Festival)
Model-turned-actor Agyness Deyn is strange and lovely in a visually innovative and dramatically unexpected tale of personal adventure.
Hockney documentary review (London Film Festival)
You don’t need to be a fan of the artist to enjoy this spirited celebration of his life and art. But you may end up a fan afterward.
My Old Lady movie review (London Film Festival)
A bitterly funny pas de trois character dramedy performed by three compulsively watchable actors.
Rosewater movie review (London Film Festival)
Jon Stewart’s first film is passionate and principled, as I expected, but also hopeful, almost serene, and even gently amusing, which I did not.
The Drop movie review (London Film Festival)
Cements Tom Hardy’s reputation as one of the most effortlessly mesmerizing actors working today.
When Animals Dream (Når dyrene drømmer) movie review (London Film Festival)
A social-realist werewolf fantasy in which burgeoning womanhood is a thing terrifying to many a man, particularly if a woman simply will not be tamed.
