Reviews

Directed by Can You Ever Forgive Me? director Marielle Heller, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood stars Tom Hanks, Matthew Rhys and Chris Cooper. Inspired by a real-life magazine article, the film follows writer Lloyd (Rhys) as he is sent…

When last seen on the big screen this year the omnipresent Will Smith was a decorative bright blue genie granting whimsical wishes in the live action edition of Disney's treasured Aladdin. In director Ang Lee's suspenseful sci-fi thriller…

Don't let the fact Le Mans '66 (2109) - the new action sport's drama by American director James Mangold - is about cars put you off. Even for non-pretol-heads, the real-life bio-pic about car designer Carroll Shelby (Matt Damon) and hot…

Inspired by real-life events, Bad Education is a comedy-drama starring Hugh Jackman and Allison Janney. Jackman portrays school administrator Frank Tassone who discovers his deputy Pam Gluckin (Janney) is stealing money from public school…

Uncut Gems was a brash, bold and nerve-shredding choice for this year’s #LFF Surprise Film. One that proves writer-directors The Safdie Brothers are diamonds in the rough. Howard Ratner (Adam Sandler) is a New York jeweller who is up to…

After Looper was released in 2012, filmmaker Rian Johnson planned to make a murder mystery film. Unfortunately, a small feature film called The Last Jedi prevented him from realising this project - until now. Starring an ensemble cast,…

Certainly no one can accuse veteran action star Sylvester Stallone of not revisiting an iconic cinematic character and taking advantage of his big screen impact throughout the course of an action-packed filmmaking career. Stallone struck…

After 2018’s Mandy, Nicolas Cage returns to the London Film Festival with another psychedelic horror, Colour Out Of Space. The Gardner family’s world is turned upside down when a meteorite crashes into the earth surrounding their farm.…

Writer-director Alex Goldberg ("Today Will Be Yesterday Tomorrow") accomplished something very special with his quirky dark comedy Closure that could have been another run-of-the-mill observation of the West Coast breeziness steeped in the…

Love. Death. Fear. Parenthood. Companionship. Angst. Trauma. All these one-worded sentiments are skillfully woven into the seriocomical mixture of director Cyrus Mirakhor's inventively off-kilter dramedy Wake. Ambitiously witty and oddly…