We bring you our most read reviews of 2017, with links to the full articles to peruse at your pleasure!
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Blue Planet II
The last seven weekends have been spent with eyes pasted firmly on the television set, proving Blue Planet II is unsurpassable.
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Speak Up (À voix haute, la force de la parole)
Speak Up is a stylish, moving, funny, and well-paced documentary. But most importantly, makes you smile. Released in France as À voix haute, la force de la parole, we caught its UK premiere this Wednesday.
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Bluefin: Tuna fishing’s catch-22
In the small fishing village of North Lake, Canada, people remember when the tuna went away. Now they’re back in numbers, and so is North Lake’s reputation as the “tuna capital of the world”. But scientists claim stocks are down by 90% globally, and these normally wary tuna are so hungry that they will now…
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‘Siblings’ world premiere: A tale of Mexico and America from below
Siblings is a film of two halves, two stories which play out on different sides of the Mexican-American border. It is about love and abandonment, illegal immigration and populism, and three real people whose voices we seldom hear in the age of Trump and his ‘beautiful wall’.
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City of Joy
(Trigger warning – references to rape and sexual violence throughout.) Madeleine Gavin’s City of Joy provides a sensitive insight into the plight of Congolese women today, without reducing their stories to the usual, easy-to-sell emotional porn. Having achieved what countless others before her have (unsuccessfully) tried to do, I have no doubt that City of Joy is…
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Riverblue: Exposing the fashion industry’s dirty laundry
“How clean are your clothes?” probes the tagline for Riverblue, a powerful film that shows the high cost of low cost clothing.
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On Yoga, or ‘How white people learned to stop worrying and love the om’
The seething tourist trap of Leicester Square in central London might not seem the ideal location for a screening of a film about peace, tranquility, and deep questions about human nature.
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A Plastic Ocean
Nominated for: Best Documentary Feature With a plethora of concerning wildlife documentaries out there, going into the screening of A Plastic Ocean I certainly had reservations. However, thank goodness my assumptions were completely shattered by this cinematic, globe-sweeping insight into the impact that humanity’s production and disposal of plastic has on the corruption of the…
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