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‘Witches’ LFF 2024 Review: An Exploration of Perinatal Mental Health
Elizabeth Sankey’s Witches combines a deeply personal narrative with a range of striking interviews and artistic montages. Through...
Lara Walsh
Oct 29, 20243 min read


‘The Apprentice’ LFF 2024 Review: How Trump Learnt to Be Bad
Since its production was first announced, a striking storm of opinions and controversies have surrounded The Apprentice , The Trump...
Hannah Philcox-Booth
Oct 28, 20243 min read


‘All We Imagine as Light’ LFF 2024 Review: Blues, Bustle, and Beyond
All We Imagine as Light , directed by Payal Kapadia, premiered at the 77th Cannes Film Festival in 2024, where it was awarded the...
Emma Todbjerg
Oct 26, 20244 min read


‘Bury Your Dead’ LFF 2024 Review: Apocalypse and Ascension
Brazilian director Marco Dutra’s latest feature film, Bury Your Dead , fuses bewildering futuristic horror with biblical visions. The...
Hannah Tang
Oct 26, 20243 min read


Denis Villeneuve Screen Talk LFF 2024: Science Fiction and Silence
An icon of cinema with a flawless filmography, French-Canadian filmmaker Denis Villeneuve graces Royal Festival Hall with his presence...
Hannah Tang
Oct 22, 20243 min read


‘Harvest’ LFF 2024 Review: Cultivation and Chaos
A hazy mosaic of ripe wheat and endless fields, Harvest is a pastoral hallucination slathered in mud and haunted by a threatening...
Hannah Tang
Oct 22, 20243 min read


‘September Says’ LFF 2024 Review: Intimacy and Imitation
In a recent Cannes Film Festival interview, actress and director Ariane Labed described her first feature film, September Says (an...
Hannah Tang
Oct 21, 20243 min read


'The Whale' Review: Just about stands on its own two feet
Darren Aronofsky’s first attempt at a narrative feature since the hit-or-miss that was Mother! is an equally divided affair, boasting a...
Alex Alcock
Nov 3, 20223 min read


'Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery' Review: A delicately layered tale that rarely cracks
Credit: AlloCiné Rian Johnson had large shoes to fill for the sequel to 2019’s Knives Out, especially regarding its star-studded cast....
Alex Alcock
Oct 21, 20224 min read


‘Bones and All’ Review: A Ravenous Romance for the Ages
Luca Guadagnino is very much the old-fashioned romantic. Into his 50s, the director still seems infatuated by incredibly tender stories...
Charlie Taylor
Oct 14, 20223 min read
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