Bones and All – Review Tom Bond November 25, 2022 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in September 2022 as part of our Venice Film Festival coverage. With Bones and All, Luca Guadagnino combines the romantic coming-of-age story of Call Me By Your Name with...
The French Dispatch – Review Alysha Prasad October 22, 2021 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in July 2021 as part of our Cannes Film Festival coverage. One of Cannes Film Festival’s most anticipated films, Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, is a love letter to...
Dune – Review Anahit Behrooz October 21, 2021 Reviews This film was previously reviewed in September 2021 as part of our Venice Film Festival coverage. Much has been made of Denis Villeneuve’s crusade for the physical institution of cinema but one thing is...
ORWAV’s Top 20 Films of 2020: #3 – Little Women Anahit Behrooz December 30, 2020 Analysis, Features, Top 10 Editor note - While Little Women was released on the 26th December 2019 in the UK, due to time constraints our group of writers did not get the chance to vote for it in last year's Top 20. For that reason, we...
Little Women – Review Ben Flanagan December 27, 2019 Reviews Walking out of Little Women, it's hard to think that a more perfect adaptation of an already perfect novel exists. Sense and Sensibility (1995) and The Age of Innocence (1993) perhaps come close, but neither...
The King – Venice 2019 Review Tom Bond September 4, 2019 Reviews Defeat the French at Agincourt? In that body? From his opening scenes as a spoilt emo princeling, whoring his way around Eastcheap, it’s hard to buy the French-American Timothée Chalamet as the legendary...
Beautiful Boy – Review Rhys Handley January 19, 2019 Reviews This review was originally published as part of our London Film Festival coverage on 13/10/2018. Journalist David Sheff and his son Nic exist on opposite ends of a spectrum; at once, they balance out a...
ORWAV’s Top 20 Films of 2018: #4 – Lady Bird Tom Bond December 28, 2018 Analysis, Features, Top 10 There’s a line in a song I think about a lot. I think it might be true. You can change your clothes/ Change your hairstyle, your friends, cities, continents/ But sooner or later your own self will always...
Beautiful Boy – LFF 2018 review Rhys Handley October 13, 2018 Reviews Journalist David Sheff and his son Nic exist on opposite ends of a spectrum; at once, they balance out a complete picture while repelling and aggravating each other in equal measure. Belgian director Felix...
Scene Stealers: Michael Stuhlbarg in Call Me By Your Name Thom Denson August 1, 2018 Analysis, Features, Scene Stealers Though the majority of our Scene Stealers inductees are made up of scenery-chewing tour-de-forces and unexpectedly bizarre cameos, our latest entry stands as perhaps one of the series' most understated...
Lady Bird – Review Jack Blackwell February 16, 2018 Reviews This film was previously reviewed on 15/10/17 as part of London Film Festival. Though Greta Gerwig has had plentiful scripting experience to complement her always exciting acting career, Lady Bird marks...
Hostiles – Review Jack Blackwell January 5, 2018 Reviews There are a lot of reasons to be disappointed by Scott Cooper’s Hostiles. Firstly, it’s simply a mediocre film, stuffed with filler dialogue and a surfeit of slow-motion closeups substituting for any real...
Top 20 Films of 2017: #9 – Call Me By Your Name Madeline Joint December 22, 2017 Analysis, Features, Top 10 Call Me by Your Name is hot. Yes, the performances are at times breathtaking, the script is measured and moving, and both score and cinematography are masterful. The story of the relationship between American...
Call Me By Your Name – Review Christopher Preston October 29, 2017 Reviews This was originally reviewed on 16/02/17 as part of the Berlinale. While making comparisons is nearly always reductive, Call Me by Your Name feels like Brokeback Mountain via Richard Linklater – which...
Lady Bird – LFF 2017 Review Jack Blackwell October 15, 2017 Reviews Though Greta Gerwig has had plentiful scripting experience to complement her always exciting acting career, Lady Bird marks her debut in the world of directing (and writing alone). We’re very pleased to...