BFI London Film Festival 2019: The Best Of The Fest

That's all folks. With the 63rd London Film Festival over for another year, here are our highlights from the films we managed to watch across the 11 day event. ... Read More...

The Peanut Butter Falcon Review

Zak (Zack Gottsagen) is a wrestling-obsessed young man with Down’s syndrome who has been living in nursing home, the state lacking the resources to put him some... Read More...

Book Review: Happiness, As Such by Natalia Ginzburg

Michele has gone missing. His father is dying. His mother is frantic. His sisters are fatigued. And there’s a woman on their doorstep with a baby who might be h... Read More...

Jacob, Mimmi and the Talking Dogs – BFI London Film Festival Review

It happens at least once a festival – maybe more, if you’re lucky. You come across a film you know nothing about. You know no one who’s in it, you’ve heard no r... Read More...

Tehran: City Of Love Review

Mina (Forough Ghajabagli) is an overweight secretary who works at a cosmetic surgery office. Vahid (Mehdi Saki) is a singer in high demand at his mosque for fun... Read More...

Sister – BFI London Film Festival Review

Rayna (Monika Naydenova) is a girl who can’t stop crying wolf. She lives with her mother (Svetlana Yancheva) and elder sister Kamelia (Elena Zamyarkova) by the ... Read More...

American Woman Review

Hollywood has done Sienna Miller a grave injustice. In the eighteen years since she first appeared on the big screen, she has never had a role worthy of her imm... Read More...

Nocturnal – BFI London Film Festival Review

Pete (Cosmo Jarvis) and Laurie (Lauren Coe) are kindred spirits. Neither have any friends, both are unhappy, both want to leave their boring seaside town. When ... Read More...

End Of The Century – BFI London Film Festival Review

When we first meet Ocho (Juan Barberini) and Javi (Ramon Pujol), it’s as they hook up in Barcelona. Ocho is a poet on holiday from New York. Javi is a director ... Read More...

Adolescents – BFI London Film Festival Review

Anaïs and Emma are two regular girls who live in a small French town. Anaïs is so bubbly that she struggles in school. Emma is more reserved and determined to b... Read More...

A White, White Day – BFI London Film Festival Review

After his wife dies in a car accident, Ingimundur (Ingvar Sigurdsson) does his best to carry on. He’s a police officer in his small, sleepy town. He often looks... Read More...

Hope Frozen – BFI London Film Festival Review

The Naovaratpong family face tragedy when their two-year-old Matheryn, affectionately known as Einz, dies of brain cancer. But that isn’t the end of her story, ... Read More...