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VOD film review: The Filmmaker’s House
June 26, 2021 | Laurence Boyce
Race, hospitality and grief collide in Mark Isaacs’ clever, playful, thought-provoking documentary.Read More
BFI Player film review: Identifying Features
May 5, 2021 | Daniel Broadley
Fernanda Valadez’s accomplished feature debut is a quietly shocking picture of Mexico’s migrant and missing persons crises.
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VOD film review: Throne of Blood
April 25, 2021 | David Farnor
Kurosawa’s jaw-dropping take on Macbeth is one of cinema’s best Shakespeare adaptations.Read More
VOD film review: Stray
March 27, 2021 | David Farnor
This beautiful, immersive dog’s eye view of Istanbul is a moving study of how people treat others.Read More
VOD film review: Justine
March 6, 2021 | David Farnor
Tallulah Haddon and Sophie Reid are excellent in this thoughtful study of addiction and romance.Read More
Muscle review: An intense study of injured masculinity
December 4, 2020 | Anton Bitel
Gerard Johnson’s body-building buddy movie Muscle lays out in black and white the longing and panic of injured masculinity.Read More
VOD film review: Meek’s Cutoff (2010)
November 30, 2020 | Josh Slater-Williams
Kelly Reichardt’s deliberately slow-paced revisionist Western is an acquired taste, but one that rewards revisits.Read More
VOD film review: The Painted Bird
September 11, 2020 | Anton Bitel
A young boy journeys through a Second World War landscape in Václav Marhoul’s harrowing odyssey.Read More
VOD film review: Strings (2012)
September 3, 2020 | David Farnor
Rob Savage’s micro-budget debut perfectly captures the awkwardness of adolescence.Read More
BFI Player review: Mark Jenkin Short Films
August 30, 2020 | Laurence Boyce
This quartet of Mark Jenkin’s shorts is a striking snapshot of a playful, impassioned and pointedly political filmmaker.Read More
