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Festivals

Arts Festivals Film London Film Festival 2018EJ OakleyOctober 3, 2018October 3, 2018

London Film Festival 2018: Assassination Nation

Not quite softcore exploitation horror but not quite a rallying feminist cry either, Sam Levinson’s femme-fatale-led piece fails to pull out all the stops as promised – mostly because it doesn’t seem to know where the stops are in the first place.

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Arts Festivals Film London Film Festival 2018EJ OakleySeptember 29, 2018September 29, 2018

London Film Festival 2018: Border

True to its tagline, John Ajvide Lindqvist’s new screenplay is indeed “a love story unlike any other” in certain senses – but on the other side of the coin, it is a wholly predictable and often misguided whodunit thriller just like every other.

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Arts Festivals Film London Film Festival 2018EJ OakleySeptember 29, 2018September 29, 2018

London Film Festival 2018: May The Devil Take You

Too many cooks spoil the broth, and so do too many clichés – May The Devil Take You is brilliant on occasion, but mostly plays out as an inane, muddled collection of multicultural jumpscare ideas connected by a thinly-drawn plot.

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Arts Festivals Film London Film Festival 2018EJ OakleySeptember 27, 2018September 27, 2018

London Film Festival 2018: School’s Out

Loaded with enough intrigue to make you think yourself into a corner, School’s Out ramps up the dread at every turn, up to its (literally) explosive climax.

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Arts Festivals Film London Film Festival 2018EJ OakleySeptember 27, 2018September 27, 2018

London Film Festival 2018: Wildlife

Carey Mulligan and Ed Oxenbould gamely shoulder the hefty emotional weight of Paul Dano’s directorial debut, supported by an underused but nonetheless brilliant Jake Gyllenhaal.

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1%
Arts Festivals Film London Film Festival 2017James WitherspoonOctober 19, 2017

1%

1% marks the latest chapter in the subgenre commonly known as ‘ultra-violent Australian crime movie’.

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Loveless
Arts Festivals Film London Film Festival 2017James WitherspoonOctober 11, 2017December 6, 2017

Loveless

Andrei Zvyagintsev recently told The Guardian that ‘living in Russia is like being in a minefield’. If his latest film is any reflection of reality, then it’s safe to say that he was putting it mildly.

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Let the Corpses Tan
Arts Film London Film Festival 2017James WitherspoonOctober 11, 2017October 12, 2017

Let the Corpses Tan

Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani are arguably the most controversial duo in horror. Famed for their mysterious, enigmatic forays into giallo – Amer and The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears – they’re the masters of sellable obscurity. Many have interpreted these pieces as hollow imitations of far more genuine works, or otherwise as meaningless…

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Foxtrot
Arts Film London Film Festival 2017James WitherspoonOctober 10, 2017October 12, 2017

Foxtrot

What is Foxtrot? Structurally, this thing is a marvel: Foxtrot does the foxtrot, as main character Joseph explains to his captive audience. 3 steps, and you return to the same place – or, rather, 3 very different acts bookended by the same scene. A lot of the surprises and finesse of the movie come from…

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Arts Editor's Picks Festivals Film London Film Festival 2017EJ OakleyOctober 9, 2017October 9, 2017

My Friend Dahmer

Ross Lynch makes a promising first step into more mature cinematic territory with an astute portrayal of what makes a murderer.

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