Reviews

It's hard to discuss Shadow in the Cloud without giving it all away. On the surface, this is the story of a female WWII pilot who mysteriously embarks a plane seconds before its take off, with nothing but a...

This film was previously reviewed in October 2019 as part of our London Film Festival coverage. If you’re going to make a movie about modern youth, you have to consult with modern youth. Too many films...

American epics often weave their stories through the decades, bolstered by a cast of characters who run the length and breadth of the morality spectrum, making their way through a world that’s changing...

Reconnecting with your childhood home is an emotionally turbulent experience, but all of these feelings within Hong Khaou’s Monsoon are expressed in moments of profound quiet. The first half-hour of the film...

Thirty-one years after their first Excellent Adventure (and twenty-nine since the critically mixed Bogus Journey), Bill and Ted are back – and contrary to predictions, Wyld Stallyns have not yet written the...

At first glance, Greta Bellamacina’s debut feature seems a London version of Frances Ha, as two women navigate their friendship and the odd jobs that keep their artistic aspirations afloat. However, Hurt By...

There's a whiff of nostalgia from Harry Michell's black comedy about Christian assassins on the rampage, and it's mostly the better for it. Its decidedly British feel - hints of Clockwise and Nuns on the Run -...

After becoming paraplegic following an accident during a family holiday in Thailand, adventurous Sam Bloom (Naomi Watts) struggles to grasp what the future will look like for herself, her husband and their...

Directing duo Lankyboy present Summerland, a film about three friends, Bray (Chris Ball), Oliver (Rory J. Super) and Oliver’s girlfriend, Stacey (Maddie Phillips) who embark on an adventurous road trip to...

On her sixteenth birthday, Enola (Millie Bobby Brown) has her life upturned when her mother and mentor (Helena Bonham Carter) disappears, leaving her at the mercy of the misanthropic Mycroft (Sam Claflin,...

“We have to be there for each other because ain’t nobody else understand what is like being one of us except us. Young, black, righteous, famous, unapologetic”. Cinema has the almost magic-like power to...

“You’re basically an anthropologist,” a disconsolate Lucy’s friends reassure her as she sits surrounded by the bric-a-brac of a recently fractured relationship. Played by rising star Geraldine...

In British horror The Unfamiliar, Army doctor Izzy (Jemima West) returns from war bearing battle scars. Her home and family seem not quite right, with spooky events beginning within minutes. The film’s...

Adolescence is a time few want to relive, but its inherent dichotomies are inexhaustible fodder for cinema. Cuties, Maïmouna Doucouré’s debut, evokes Céline Sciamma’s vision of youth in Water Lilies and...

This film was previously reviewed in October 2019 as part of our London Film Festival coverage. It's taken 20 years for Michael Caton-Jones to bring his adaptation of Alan Warner's novel The Sopranos to the...