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...

A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood – BFI London Film Festival Review

Two years ago, I didn’t know who Fred Rogers was. Slowly, but very surely, reports of a documentary that broke audiences into puddles in their cinema chairs beg... Read More...

The Irishman – BFI London Film Festival Review

“It is what it is” is almost comedic in its delivery in The Irishman. Robert De Niro, as the softly spoken Frankie Sheeran, is explaining to Pacino’s Jimmy Hoff... Read More...

Rare Beasts – BFI London Film Festival Review

British audiences of a certain age will know Billie Piper from the halcyon days of late-nineties pop music. But she has redefined her image with the outstanding... Read More...

Marriage Story – BFI London Film Festival Review

Marriage Story must simultaneously showcase the destructive, permanent process of divorce against the reality of a couple who were, at one point, hopelessly bes... Read More...

Jojo Rabbit – BFI London Film Festival Review

Jojo Rabbit is trying to be a perfect combination of poignant satire and uproarious comedy, using the past to connect to the present. The director of Thor: Ragn... Read More...

Perfect 10 – BFI London Film Festival Review

Those fleeting teenage years of precarious decisions and nerve-wracking moments, that seem to feel like forever, are so much tougher when your parents are not b... Read More...

You Don’t Nomi – BFI London Film Festival Review

Nearly twenty-five years on, Showgirls continues to build a fan base – and since watching You Don’t Nomi, you can count me among them. Paul Verhoeven’s controve... Read More...

Playmobil: The Movie Review

Let’s get the obvious out of the way first: yes, there are parallels between The Lego Movie and Playmobil: The Movie. Both born from toys and even sharing the s... Read More...

Avengers: Endgame Review

When tackling the cultural phenomenon of Marvel Studios, it is worth noting from the outset how reviews have tagged their take as “spoiler-free”. But, with a fi... Read More...

Captain Marvel Review

In between the behemoths of Avengers: Infinity War and the upcoming sequel Avengers: Endgame, Marvel Studios have released two movies: Ant Man and The Wasp and ... Read More...

A Private War Review

In 2002, Rosamund Pike starred as the femme fatale in Brosnan's last James Bond movie, Die Another Day. As a journalist for The Times, Marie Colvin was recoveri... Read More...