Reviews

Dir: Roberto Gavaldon | Fantasy drama | Mexico 91' The BFI's season of films from Mexican cinema's postwar golden age concludes with this rarely seen neo-realist fantasy that resembles an episode...

Dir.: Rodrigo Sorogoyen; Cast: Antonio de la Torre, Barbara Lennie; Spain/France 2018, 121 min. Even Antonio de la Torre can't save this far-fetched, fast-talking made for TV crime thriller that eventually...

Dir: Lila Alviles | Cartol | Drama | Mexico | 90' The Chambermaid plays the same thematic tune as two other festival winners this Summer: Golden Lion winner Roma and In...

Dir.: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon; Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Shannon, Nicolas Holt, Katherine Waterstone, Tuppence Middleton; USA 2017, 107 min. Director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon (The Town that dreaded Sundown) has adapted Michael Mitnick’s unconvincing...

Dir.: Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit; Documentary/Fiction; Thailand 2017, 75 min. Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit (Mary is Happy, Mary is Happy) has turned her attention toward the big taboo: death. It may surprise you to learn that...

Dirs: Andy Heathcote, Heike Bachelier | UK Doc 90' Andy Heathcote and Heike Bachelier follow up their delightful documentary  The Moo Man with a more confrontational film that explores the traditional...

New artistic director Lili Hinstin unveils her eclectic mix of films for the 72nd Locarno Film Festival which runs from 7 until 17 August in its luxurious lakeside location. Locarno is...

Dir.: Annabel Jankel; Cast: Anna Paquin, Holiday Grainger, Gregor Selkirk, Emun Elliot, Steven Robertson, Kate Dickie, Lauren Lyle; UK 2018, 105 min. Annabel Jankel's literary adaptation of a popular fifties novel...

Dir: Leslie Arliss | Cast: James Mason, Wilfred Lawson, Tucker McGuire, Joyce Howard | UK Gothic Horror 79' Although he directed some of the biggest British box office successes of the...