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‘Crocodile Tears’: London Review
Dir/scr: Tumpal Tampubolon. Indonesia/France/Singapore/Germany. 2024. 98mins
Mom all the time is aware of finest in Crocodile Tears. Tumpal Tampubolon’s low-key debut function charts the unhealthy...
‘Blitz’: London Review
Dir/scr: Steve McQueen. UK. 2024. 120 minutes.
The bombs are falling on London, because the title of Steve McQueen’s drama for AppleTV+ signifies. Caught within...
‘The Wolves Always Come At Night’: London Review
Dir. Gabrielle Brady. Australia/Mongolia/Germany. 2024. 96 minutes
What's a herder with out his animals? This query of identification permeates Gabrielle Brady’s docudrama The Wolves At...
‘Endurance’: London Review
Dirs: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, Natalie Hewit. UK/US/Antarctica/Iceland/Denmark/South Africa. 2024. 103mins
The tales of two Antarctic expeditions, separated by over a century, are woven...
‘The Summer Book’: London Review
Dir: Charlie McDowell. Finland/UK 2024. 90mins
The difference of traditional literature centred round youngsters could be a fraught affair. There’s a magic to being younger...
‘Four Mothers’: London Review
Dir. Darren Thornton. Republic of Eire, 2024. 89 minutes
YA novelist Edward (James McArdle) is a full-time carer for his mutely-defiant mom Alma (Fionnula Flanagan),...
‘Joy’: London Review
Dir: Ben Taylor. UK. 2024. 114mins
A world-changing scientific breakthrough could contact the lives of numerous people, however that doesn’t essentially make for gripping cinema....
‘Thank You For Banking With Us’: London Review
Dir/scr: Laila Abbas. Palestine/Germany/Saudi Arabia/Qatar/Egypt. 2024. 97mins
There’s little love misplaced between Palestinian sisters Mariam (Clara Khoury), a frazzled mum of two, and Noura (Yasmine...
‘The Extraordinary Miss Flower’: London Review
Dirs: Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard. UK. 2024. 73mins
It began with a field – a battered case full of letters and telexes stuffed with ardour...
BFI London Film festival unveils 2024 award winners
Adam Elliot’s stop-motion animation Memoir Of A Snail has gained the Finest Movie Award in Official Competitors on the 68th BFI London Movie Pageant...