London reviews
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‘H Is For Hawk’ review: Claire Foy soars in Philippa Lowthorpe’s sensitive adaptation
Dramatisation of Helen Macdonald’s bestselling 2014 memoir plays London after Telluride premiere
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‘One Woman One Bra’ review: A single woman fights for her rights in spirited Kenyan drama
Vincho Nchogu’s feature debut plays London’s First Feature Competition after premiering in Venice
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‘Moss & Freud’ review: Dramatisation of the 2002 collaboration between Lucian Freud and Kate Moss
Derek Jacobi and Ellie Bamber star as the artist and model in James Lucas’s lacklustre drama
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‘Is This Thing On?’ review: Bradley Cooper’s bittersweet third feature stars Will Arnett and Laura Dern
Arnett and Dern impress as a couple navigating divorce in Cooper’s latest awards contender
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‘At The Place Of Ghosts’ review: Indigenous brothers take a dark path in moody Canadian chiller
Bretten Hannam’s psychological thriller is set within Nova Scotia’s Mi’kmaw community
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‘Black Is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story’ review: Colourful portrait of US creative activist
Yemi Bamiro’s London Competition title about photographer Kwame Brathwaite features a wealth of archive footage
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‘The Eyes Of Ghana’ review: Warm documentary profiles Ghanian cinematographer Chris Hesse
Ben Proudfoot follows the nonagenarian filmmaker’s attempts to digitise his archive of negatives from the 1950s and 60s
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‘The Extraordinary Miss Flower’: London Review
A box of love letters is the catalyst for Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard’s lyrical documentary
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‘That Christmas’: London Review
Feelgood Netflix animation based on the book by Richard Curtis
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‘Thank You For Banking With Us’: London Review
Two sisters strain against Palestine’s patriarchal bonds in this effective Ramallah-set debut
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‘Joy’: London Review
James Norton, Bill Nighy and Thomasin McKenzie star in this surprisingly sterile 1970s IVF drama
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‘Four Mothers’: London Review
Warm-hearted Irish mother-son drama plays in London Competition
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‘The Summer Book’: London Review
Glenn Close and the Finnish landscape take centre stage in this adaptation of Tove Jansson’s novel
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‘Endurance’: London Review
Doc uses digital technology to bring Shackleton’s 1914 Antarctic expedition back to colourful life
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‘The Wolves Always Come At Night’: London Review
Immersive docu-fiction from the director of ‘Island Of The Hungry Ghosts’ charts climate change in Mongolia
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‘Blitz’: London Review
Steve McQueen’s weighty wartime drama starring Saoirse Ronan opens the London Film Festival
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‘SCALA!!!’: London Review
Affectionate documentary recalls the 1980s glory days of London’s iconic Scala cinema
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‘Stopmotion’: London Review
A stop-motion animator is driven mad by her own creations in this atmospheric British horror
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‘Bye Bye Tiberias’: London Review
Lina Soualem, daughter of Hiam Abbass, explores her family history in this personal documentary which won London’s Grierson award