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"Often comes across a bit too much like a shaggy-dog story in its ultimate execution."

Read our ⭐⭐⭐ review for the surreal comedy Nightbitch, starring Amy Adams as an overworked mother who thinks she's turning into a dog! #LFF #LFF24 #LFF2024
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Nightbitch (2024, dir. Marielle Heller) – BFI London Film Festival - Film Feeder
Our ⭐⭐⭐ review for the surreal comedy Nightbitch, starring Amy Adams as an overworked mother who thinks she's turning into a dog!
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October 24, 2024 at 8:01 AM
"Offers something truly unique..."

Read our ⭐⭐⭐⭐ review for the tense drama Julie Keeps Quiet, about a tennis prodigy faced with pressure to speak up about her disgraced coach! #LFF #LFF24 #LFF2024
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Julie Keeps Quiet (2024, dir. Leonardo Van Dijl) – BFI London Film Festival - Film Feeder
Our ⭐⭐⭐⭐ review for the tense drama Julie Keeps Quiet, about a tennis prodigy faced with pressure to speak up about her disgraced coach!
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October 24, 2024 at 8:01 AM
"A basic return to form for Mike Leigh – which, for some, might be all that they need."

Read our ⭐⭐⭐ review for Mike Leigh's new drama Hard Truths, starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste as a woman who you'll struggle to be around! #LFF #LFF24 #LFF2024
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Hard Truths (2024, dir. Mike Leigh) – BFI London Film Festival - Film Feeder
Our ⭐⭐⭐ review for Mike Leigh's new drama Hard Truths, starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste as a woman who you'll struggle to be around!
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October 24, 2024 at 8:00 AM
"An empty and slightly vapid farce..."

Read our ⭐⭐ review for the dark French comedy The Balconettes, about a group of friends who become involved in an accidental murder! #LFF #LFF24 #LFF2024
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The Balconettes (2024, dir. Noémie Merlant) – BFI London Film Festival - Film Feeder
Our ⭐⭐ review for the dark French comedy The Balconettes, about a group of friends who become involved in an accidental murder!
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October 24, 2024 at 8:00 AM
"An underlying gentleness that cuts to the core of our two central travellers."
Read our ⭐⭐⭐⭐ review for the road trip comedy A Real Pain, starring Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin as cousins on a Holocaust tour in Poland! #LFF #LFF24 #LFF2024
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A Real Pain (2024, dir. Jesse Eisenberg) – BFI London Film Festival - Film Feeder
Our ⭐⭐⭐⭐ review for the road trip comedy A Real Pain, starring Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin as cousins on a Holocaust tour in Poland!
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October 20, 2024 at 9:17 AM
"An extremely likeable film"
Read our ⭐⭐⭐ review for the British historical drama Joy, about the group of scientists who developed the world's first IVF treatment and birth! #LFF #LFF24 #LFF2024
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Joy (2024, dir. Ben Taylor) – BFI London Film Festival - Film Feeder
Our ⭐⭐⭐ review for the British historical drama Joy, about the group of scientists who developed the world's first IVF treatment and birth!
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October 20, 2024 at 9:17 AM
"You are able to see a very different kind of superman."
Read our ⭐⭐⭐⭐ review for the inspiring documentary Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, about the legendary Superman actor and disability activist! #LFF #LFF24 #LFF2024
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Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story (2024, dirs. Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui) – BFI London Film Festival - Film Feeder
Our ⭐⭐⭐⭐ review for the inspiring documentary Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, about the legendary Superman actor and disability activist!
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October 20, 2024 at 9:17 AM
"Bound to become something of a cult favourite among its niche crowd."

Read our ⭐⭐⭐ review for the post-apocalyptic musical The End, about a wealthy family confronting (and even singing about) their role in the world's demise! #LFF #LFF24 #LFF2024
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The End (2024, dir. Joshua Oppenheimer) – BFI London Film Festival - Film Feeder
Our ⭐⭐⭐ review for the post-apocalyptic musical The End, about a wealthy family confronting (and even singing about) their role in the world's demise!
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October 20, 2024 at 9:17 AM
"All of You feels like if both Fingernails and We Live in Time injected the green activator from The Substance..."

Read our ⭐⭐⭐⭐ review for the romantic drama, starring Brett Goldstein and Imogen Poots! #LFF #LFF24 #LFF2024
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All of You (2024, dir. William Bridges) – BFI London Film Festival - Film Feeder
Our ⭐⭐⭐⭐ review for the romantic drama All of You, starring Brett Goldstein and Imogen Poots - showing at this year's BFI London Film Festival!
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October 13, 2024 at 9:11 AM
"Far from a perfect game, but there are a few strikes amidst its many spares"

Read our ⭐⭐⭐ review for the bowling comedy The Gutter, starring Shameik Moore and Susan Sarandon! #LFF #LFF24 #LFF2024
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The Gutter (2024, dirs. Isaiah Lester and Yassir Lester) – BFI London Film Festival - Film Feeder
Our ⭐⭐⭐ review for the bowling comedy The Gutter, starring Shameik Moore and Susan Sarandon - showing at this year's BFI London Film Festival!
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October 13, 2024 at 9:10 AM
"The thin writing and unfocused narrative render it a much safer effort than usual from filmmaker Steve McQueen"

Read our ⭐⭐⭐ review for the war drama Blitz, starring Saoirse Ronan and Harris Dickinson! #LFF #LFF24 #LFF2024
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Blitz (2024, dir. Steve McQueen) – BFI London Film Festival - Film Feeder
Our ⭐⭐⭐ review for Steve McQueen's war drama Blitz, starring Saoirse Ronan and Harris Dickinson - showing at this year's BFI London Film Festival!
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October 13, 2024 at 9:02 AM
"A powerful exploration of the horrific racial abuse within 60s America"

Read our ⭐⭐⭐⭐ review for the first-person historical drama Nickel Boys! #LFF #LFF24 #LFF2024

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Nickel Boys (2024, dir. RaMell Ross) – BFI London Film Festival - Film Feeder
Our ⭐⭐⭐⭐ review for the first-person historical drama Nickel Boys, which is showing during this year's BFI London Film Festival!
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October 10, 2024 at 11:30 AM
"You’ll certainly feel a lot of feelings... enough to send your own Inside Out-style emotions into overdrive."

Read our ⭐⭐⭐⭐ review for the animated comedy Memoir of a Snail, featuring the voice of Sarah Snook! #LFF #LFF24 #LFF2024

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Memoir of a Snail (2024, dir. Adam Elliot) – BFI London Film Festival - Film Feeder
Our ⭐⭐⭐⭐ review for the animated comedy Memoir of a Snail, featuring the voice of Sarah Snook - showing at this year's BFI London Film Festival!
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October 10, 2024 at 11:26 AM
"Too sluggish and on occasion too theatrical for it to truly embrace its roots."

Read our ⭐⭐⭐ review for the historical drama Harvest, set within a farming community in medieval England! #LFF #LFF24 #LFF2024
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Harvest (2024, dir. Athina Rachel Tsangari) – BFI London Film Festival - Film Feeder
Our ⭐⭐⭐ review for the historical drama Harvest, set within a farming community in medieval England - playing during this year's BFI London Film Festival!
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October 10, 2024 at 11:20 AM
Talky Norwegian movie SEX 📽️ is getting a limited UK release next week and for @intheirownleague.bsky.social it's really worth seeing for how two straight married men grapple with suddenly being unable to take their sexuality and sexual identity for granted intheirownleague.com/2024/11/04/l...
LFF2024 review: Sex
Year: 2024 Runtime: 125 minutes Written and directed by: Dag Johan Haugerud Actors: Jan Gunnar Røise, Thorbjørn Harr, Siri Forberg, Birgitte Larsen, Theo Dahl, Anne Marie Ottersen By Sarah Manvel N…
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September 4, 2025 at 1:03 PM
The start of SEX 📽️ sets the wrong tone for the trilogy but its exploration of how sexuality (and maybe even gender identity) cannot be taken for granted is fascinating intheirownleague.com/2024/11/04/l...
LFF2024 review: Sex
Year: 2024 Runtime: 125 minutes Written and directed by: Dag Johan Haugerud Actors: Jan Gunnar Røise, Thorbjørn Harr, Siri Forberg, Birgitte Larsen, Theo Dahl, Anne Marie Ottersen By Sarah Manvel N…
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April 15, 2025 at 11:56 AM
SEX 📽️ #LFF2024, the first part of Dag Johan Haugerud's ambitious trilogy of people talking about their problems in Oslo, works well because the marriages and families are at stake due to some rather small acts. But we all know little things mean a lot intheirownleague.com/2024/11/04/l...
LFF2024 review: Sex
Year: 2024 Runtime: 125 minutes Written and directed by: Dag Johan Haugerud Actors: Jan Gunnar Røise, Thorbjørn Harr, Siri Forberg, Birgitte Larsen, Theo Dahl, Anne Marie Ottersen By Sarah Manvel N…
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November 4, 2024 at 12:11 PM
First THE ROOM NEXT DOOR #LFF2024 📽️ is a disappointment and then it becomes an embarrassment. Hoo boy it is not good movieswetextedabout.com/the-room-nex...
'The Room Next Door' Movie Review - A Disappointment (Venice)
It’s depressing to realize someone is coasting on their reputation instead of using their talent, and in fact making so little use of their talent that their reputation becomes suspect. This is the so...
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October 9, 2024 at 9:50 PM
QUEER #LFF2024 📽️ stands entirely on Daniel Craig's magnificent shoulders, but the rest of the movie doesn't live up to his work here movieswetextedabout.com/queer-movie-...
'Queer' Movie Review (Venice)
What you have to realize about Queer is that it is an adaptation of a book by William S. Burroughs, so the queerness on display here is less about sexuality, but more a way of looking at the world. Wi...
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October 9, 2024 at 9:48 PM
ANORA #LFF2024 📽️ is also sold out, as it should be. See it cold but believe me, you'll love seeing it however and whenever you do movieswetextedabout.com/anora-review...
'Anora' Review: The Best American Movie So Far This Decade (Cannes)
Other reviews compare Anora to Pretty Woman, but this is a bad mistake. The world has moved on considerably since 1990, and these days, capitalism is now second to oligarchy. Oligarchs are people for ...
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October 9, 2024 at 6:02 AM
EMILIA PEREZ #LFF2024 📽️ is also sold out. Its concept is better than its delivery but the four central performances that won the big prize at Cannes justify the hype movieswetextedabout.com/emilia-perez...
'Emilia Pérez' Review: Four Performances of Note (Cannes)
In an unprecedented move, the Cannes Film Festival jury awarded the Best Actress prize this year to the four actresses of Emilia Pérez – Zoe Saldaña, Selena Gomez, Karla Sofía Gascón and Adriana Paz. ...
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October 9, 2024 at 6:00 AM
April #LFF2024 📽️ is sold out, as it should be. It's an unusual depiction of self-determination and how men like to control the bodies of women intheirownleague.com/2024/09/10/v...
Venice Biennale 2024 review: April
Year: 2024 Runtime: 132 minutes Writer/Director: Dea Kulumbegashvili Starring: Ia Sukhitashvili, Kakha Kintsurashvili, Ana Nikolava By Sarah Manvel This is not an easy film to watch but neither is …
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October 9, 2024 at 5:58 AM
On Friday at #LFF2024 📽️ there are still tickets for ABIDING NOWHERE, a beautiful curiosity filmed on the streets of Washington DC about where we put our feet www.criticsnotebook.com/2024/02/abid...
Watch Your Step
Sarah Manvel reviews Tsai Ming-liang's "Abiding Nowhere."
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October 9, 2024 at 5:56 AM
📽️ The main reason to see QUEER #LFF2024 #Venezia81 is Daniel Craig's annihilating performance. The rest of this self-loathing tale doesn't come close to living up to his incredible, curdled work movieswetextedabout.com/queer-movie-...
'Queer' Movie Review (Venice)
What you have to realize about Queer is that it is an adaptation of a book by William S. Burroughs, so the queerness on display here is less about sexuality, but more a way of looking at the world. Wi...
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October 8, 2024 at 5:53 PM
Finally on Thursday ALL SHALL BE WELL #LFF2024 📽️🏳️‍🌈 is also sold out. It's about a lesbian in Hong Kong having to struggle both with grief but also the knowledge that when the chance for some money enters the room, love flies out the door intheirownleague.com/2024/02/28/b...
Berlinale 2024 review: All Shall Be Well
Year: 2024 Runtime: 93 minutes Written and directed by: Ray Yeung Actors: Maggie Li Lin Lin, Patra Au Ga Man, Tai Bo, Hui So Ying, Fish Liew Chi Yu, Leung Ching Hang, Rachel Leung By Sarah Manvel I…
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October 8, 2024 at 7:23 AM