LFF 2017: Mudbound ****
The storytelling is emotive in nature, as is to be expected. However, it is not drawn out for effect and exploitative in sentimentality.
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LFF 2017: The Killing of a Sacred Deer *****
A superior supernatural thriller, utterly unique in execution – even the roaming camera has a mind of its own.
LFF 2017: Breathe ****
Serkis’ care with the source material is such that by the time the inevitable arrives, the viewer is not emotionally drained and actually celebrates the good that has come from Robin’s situation.
LFF 2016: Nocturnal Animals ****
What comes across with Ford’s Nocturnal Animals is a passion for a project, attention to detail and dramatic Hitchcockian production values.
LFF 2015: Men and Chicken ****
An extraordinary dark comedy for those wanting pitched blackness and heaps of lunacy. Strip away social conditioning and religion, while the insane might run the asylum their actions begin to appear explainable, even normalising, when compared to the outside world’s perspective.
LFF 2015: Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story) ***
Husson has a powerful first vehicle to drive home with, if not as a critique of modern-day pressures on youth.
LFF 2015: The Witch ****
There is a world of doubt and terror to experience in this art-house horror. The key is this is self-perpetuating as a present-day viewer – if you relinquish to the lifestyle experience you are witnessing, rather than have the scares delivered on a plate, as is the usual horror diet.
LFF 2015: Bone Tomahawk ****
An immensely satisfying offering that will appeal to both Western and Horror camps and it looks great, production-wise. With some great acting and thoughtful directing, it certainly is one of the most refreshing Western off-shoots in a long time.
LFF 2015: A Bigger Splash ****
A Bigger Splash is must-see viewing for those who like a modern-day tragedy of forbidden longing, both in acting and setting. Has got to be one of Fiennes’s finest performances in a long time.