Tag: British Cinema
2025 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9 – Oliver Hermanus’ ‘The History of Sound’
South African filmmaker Oliver Hermanus might be another newbie in competition but this first trip to Cannes as he premiered 2011's Beauty in the...
The History of Sound | 2025 Cannes Film Festival Review
One Sings, the Other Doesn’t: Hermanus Plays a Tune for the Broken Hearted
“Happiness doesn’t tell stories,” is a sage observation uttered in The History...
The Assessment | Review
The Parent Trap: Elizabeth Olsen Tries Not to Break In Fleur Fortuné’s Debut The Assessment
The one thing you can count as the world gets...
Hot Milk | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
The Eternal Daughter: Lenkiewicz Ladles the Milk of Sorrows
Screenwriter Rebecca Lenkiewicz makes her directorial debut with Hot Milk, an adaptation of Deborah Levy’s comically...
Bird | Review
Dole Days: Arnold Flutters About with Strange Bedfellows
There’s certainly a definable emotional core in Andrea Arnold’s fifth narrative feature, Bird, but the ideas and...
Hard Truths | 2024 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
Take A Chance On Love: Mike Leigh Delivers A Late Career Powerhouse
You can’t help but wonder if Mike Leigh is making a sly joke...
Hoard | Review
M is for the Many Things You Gave Me: Grief Becomes the Remedy in Carmoon’s Debut
“Time heals all old pain, while it creates new...
Harvest | 2024 Venice Film Festival Review
Sheep, Sheep, Sheep: Tsangari’s Monotonous Treatise on Modernization
Adapted from a novel by Jim Croce, Harvest is Greek auteur Athina Rachel Tsangari's third feature narrative,...
The Old Oak | Review
A Tree Grows in England: Loach Loses Steam in Klutzy Refugee Drama
There’s no doubt Ken Loach is one of the most prominent social-realist directors...
Swimming Home | 2024 International Film Festival Rotterdam Review
Marriage Story: Justin Anderson Serves Up An Enigmatic Challenge Is His Feature Debut
A marriage in crisis cooks under the summer sun in filmmaker Justin...
The Zone of Interest | Review
Verboten Zone: Glazer Returns with Historical Horror
It’s impossible to contemplate Jonathan Glazer’s fourth feature, The Zone of Interest, without referencing Hannah Arendt’s publication on...
Shosana | 2023 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
Winterbottom Cranks Yet Out Another One, This Time A Forgettable Thriller With No Bite
Michael Winterbottom never stops. For over three decades, the filmmaker has...
Seven Day Itch: Alicia Vikander & Elizabeth Olsen Board Fleur Fortuné’s “The Assessment”
A-list actresses Alicia Vikander and Elizabeth Olsen will be teaming on the feature film debut by a filmmaker who (it was only a matter...
Let’s Talk About “Sex” – Mubi Land Molly Manning Walker’s Directorial Un Certain Regard Selected Debut
Always an encouraging sign when a film gets pre-bought close to a month before its world premiere. This is the case for Molly Manning...
The Son | Review
The Tragedy of Privilege: Zeller’s Familial Identity Trilogy Continues with Maudlin Chapter
The highly revered and internationally renowned playwright Florian Zeller has a formidable talent...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #30. Andrew Haigh’s Strangers
Strangers
After a detour in television, Weekend (2011) and 45 Year (2015) filmmaker returns to cinema with Strangers - a film Andrew Haigh directed in...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #52. Justin Anderson’s Swimming Home
Swimming Home
In a surprising field of many first-time works on our list, this year's most anticipated directorial debut goes to commercials director Justin Anderson...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #59. Rose Glass’ Love Lies Bleeding
Love Lies Bleeding
Among the many A24 films circling the festival circuit this year we have Rose Glass' sophomore feature. Her 2019 debut Saint Maud...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #126. Guy Nattiv’s Golda
Golda
Filmed in October of 2021 and earmarked for a 2022 release, Guy Nattiv's fifth feature in the Golda Meir biopic is now slated for...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #140. Luna Carmoon’s Hoard
Hoard
Most filmmakers on our list received formal training but this British filmmaker is our DIY queen. A Stars of Tomorrow 2022 personality, Luna Carmoon...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #180. Naqqash Khalid’s In Camera
In Camera
Naqqash Khalid went into production with his alluring-sounding directorial debut this past August. Set in Manchester, in a nutshell, In Camera details what...
The Eternal Daughter | Review
I Remember Mama: Hogg Explores Film as Memento Mori in Gloomy Ghost Story
Our own memories are the ghosts haunting us, or at least the...
The Wonder | Review
Power Surge: Lelio Ponders power and the profound in his latest which attempts to grapple with the nature of storytelling itself
“This is the beginning...
Blue Jean | 2022 Venice Film Festival Review
Personal Best: Oakley Exhumes the Terror and Trauma of Life in the Shadow of the Iron Lady
For her directorial debut, Blue Jean, Georgia Oakley...
Zero Gravity: Katherine Waterston Floats Over to Mahalia Belo’s “The End We Start From”
After lassoing Jodie Comer to topline, Mahalia Belo's feature film debut will also include some major talent in Katherine Waterston. Deadline reports that Waterston...
Rogue Agent | Review
The Spy Who Loved My Money: Patterson & Lawn Get the Grifter in Seductive Drama
Scribes Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson present a smoothly administered...
Rungano Nyoni Takes Flight on “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl”
She blasted onto the scene when she returned to the Directors' Fortnight section in 2017 with I Am Not A Witch and it now...
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris | Review
Dior on the Floor: Fabian Spins Sweetness into Schmaltz with Anglophile Fairy Tale
It’s never too late to follow one’s dreams, as the truncated tagline...
Benediction | Review
Words of War: Davies Recuperates Another Poet in Impressionistic Biopic
Following the critical success of his masterful portrait of Emily Dickinson in A Quiet Passion...
Dashcam | Review
Arrhythmia of the Night: Savage Triumphs with Delightfully Bizarre Socio-Horror
There’s an art to successful presentations of unlikeable characters, further complicated when a protagonist is...
Men | Review
Take Back the Fright: Garland Returns with Cryptic Fable on Trenchant Misogyny
The tagline for George Cukor’s 1939 classic The Women, which notably featured...
Coal Miner’s Drifter: Ken Loach in Pre-Production with “The Old Oak”
International sales companies will be unveiling some of their new projects for the next couple of weeks and the Wild Bunch folks are back...
Firebird | Review
Bird on a Wire: Rebane Resurrects a Familiar Stymied Love Affair in Absurd Melodrama
Over a century ago, Lord Alfred Douglas coined the euphonious phrase...
Storage Units: Luna Carmoon Collects Hayley Squires, Leon & Quinn for “Hoard”
Screen Daily reports that Brit writer-director Luna Carmoon has begun production on her directorial debut and has enlisted the likes of Laura Lightfoot Leon,...
Bull | Review
All the Rage: Williams Returns with a (Familiar) Vengeance
After a decade working in television, British director Paul Andrew Williams finally returns to narrative filmmaking...
Spencer | Review
In the Name of the Rose: Larrain Crafts Empathetic Portrait of an Icon in Anguish
The eternal impact of Diana, Princess of Wales, whose...
Last Night in Soho | Review
Profondo Glosso: Wright Falters with Glossy, Pseudo-Feminist Ghost Story
Opening upon joyful musical reverie and descending into vibrant color palettes, Edgar Wright’s attempt at...
Limbo | Review
Immigrant Song: The Personal is Political in Sharrock’s Quietly Sincere Portrait of Asylum Seeker
The plight of the political asylum seeker is a complex situation...
The Banishing | Review
The Vicar Man: Smith Returns to Period with Bustling Slow Burn
If you’re familiar with the filmography of British filmmaker Christopher Smith, you know you’re...
In the Earth | Review
Middling Earth: Wheatley Explores Favored Motifs in Pensive Pandemic Exercise
If we’ve gleaned anything about circumventing Mother Nature, perhaps those 1970s Chiffon margarine commercials featuring...
The Power | Review
Night Nurse: Faith Finds the Night the Lights Went Out on the Patriarchy in Moody Debt
Director Corinna Faith makes fine use of period and...
Education | Review
School of Crock: McQueen Turns His Eyes to the Stars in Final Anthology Installment
Across five films spanning a period of 1969 to 1982, Steve...
Luxor | Review
Hotel Spell: Durra Explores the Tenuousness of the Present Through Romance of the Past
She hasn’t quite lost that loving feeling, which seems to be...
Alex Wheatle | Review
Odds Against Tomorrow: McQueen’s Anthology Explores Tribulations of Famed Novelist
For the fourth installment of his five-title Small Axe anthology series, director Steve McQueen recuperates...
Red, White and Blue | Review
A Bridge Too Far: McQueen Explores the Inherent Sacrifice of Community Service in Straightforward Drama
With Red, White and Blue, the third film in Steve...
Mangrove | Review
All for Notting Hill: McQueen Paints the Power of Resistance in Period Courtroom Drama
The first of five installments from Steve McQueen’s “Small Axe” anthology,...
Kindred | Review
Gaslight of My Life: Marcantonio Debuts a Familiar Slice of Maternal Psychodrama
“She giveth life and take it away” could have been a fitting tagline...
His House [Video Review]
Death as a House: Weekes Finds Woe in Immigration Horror
It’s a trauma so innately horrific on the surface the thought of collapsing it into...
Eternal Beauty | Review
Unhappy-Go-Lucky: Hawkes Shines in Roberts’ Mental Illness Drama
The depiction of mental illness, particularly something like schizophrenia, a real condition often posed as a catch-all...
