Tag: British Cinema
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...
The Assessment | 2024 Toronto Intl. Film Festival 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...
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...