2.0
Nocturama Review – London Film Festival 2016
The ire in which this writer aims towards Nocturama is a measure as to the frustration at the wasted opportunity at the centre of its existence. A substantial pity.
2.0
4.0
Lion Review – London Film Festival 2016
The tears may well fall. Lion, which features the billboard-worthy cast of Dev Patel, Rooney Mara and Nicole Kidman, is weighted with emotional heft.
4.0
The Graduation Review – London Film Festival 2016
The Graduation is an intriguing documentary, which provides a balanced picture in carousing frustration, as well as reasons to be cheerfully optimistic about the future of French cinema and that cherished concept of the auteur.
80%
Layla M. Review – London Film Festival 2016
Mijke de Jong’s powerful drama Layla M. follows Layla, a Muslim girl brought up in urban Amsterdam.
5.0
Your Name Review – London Film Festival 2016
Shinkai builds on the steady foundations laid by his own previous outings to bring us the dazzling, pretty and truly profound Your Name.
4.0
Berlin Film Festival 2016: Hail, Caesar Review
Loaded with a big name cast hamming it up to the nines, Joel and Ethan Coen return having shamelessly plumbed and thumbed the contents of their contact list to wield some starry-eyed gloss to their affectionate, yet also occasionally cutting, look at the Hollywood machine in the 1950s in Hail, Caesar.