Little White Lies - Movie Reviews and Articles

No Paradise if You Are Killed by a Woman – first-look review

by Hugo Emmerzael

From the ruins of Mosul, Halkawt Mustafa offers a breathtaking war spectacle centred on a female Peshmerga sniper.

L’Estranea – first-look review

by Marshall Shaffer

Paolo Strippoli’s horror-thriller take on a fairytale promise tests the audience’s patience. 

Look Back – first-look review

by Luke Hicks

Hirokazu Koreeda finds his groove again with this radiant live-action adaptation tracing two manga prodigies as they forge an unlikely creative partnership.

The Pervert’s Guide to Utopias – first-look review

by Sonya Vseliubska

Philosopher-provocateur Slavoj Žižek and director Sophie Fiennes bring their Pervert’s Guide trilogy to a sublime, dizzying close, turning cinema into a field guide for the apocalypse.

London – first-look review

by Rafa Sales Ross

Victor di Marco and Márcio Picoli’s portrait of a queer and disabled sex worker asks interesting questions but underserves an intriguing premise.

It Will Happen Tonight – first-look review

by Miriam Balanescu

Louis Garrel’s charisma isn’t enough to make up for an overlaboured script in Nanni Moretti’s romantic comedy.

Everybody Digs Bill Evans review – a quietly devastating jazz elegy

by Trevor Johnston

In Grant Gee’s devastating semi-fiction debut, Anders Danielsen Lie stuns as jazz pianist Bill Evans in the wake of his bandmate’s sudden death.

Blue Film review – a riveting exploration of perversion

by Molly Lipson

When a camboy’s client turns out to be a teacher from his old high school, a routine booking becomes an unflinching confrontation between two damaged men. 

Pressure review – another war movie for the classroom

by Phil Ginley

Anthony Maras serves up another dramatic re-enactment, this time of the fraught deliberations behind the decision to launch D‑Day.

Just an Illusion review – an unabashedly feelgood family affair

by David Jenkins

Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano deliver a glossy, good-natured portrait of family dysfunction in 1980s France.

Late Fame review – underserved by a thin script

by Hannah Strong

Kent Jones’ latest stars Willem Dafoe as a forgotten poet drawn back into New York’s art scene by a young fan.

Super Nature review – a grainy, intimate delight

by Francesca Steele

Ed Sayers’ crowdsourced documentary stitches together Super‑8 wildlife footage from 40 filmmakers across 25 countries.

A Long Winter – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

A short story by Colm Tóibín provides rich material for Andrew Haigh’s melancholy family drama.

Sarah Maldoror’s Poetry of Resistance

by Haaniyah Awale Angus

A BFI season curated by Annouchka de Andrade on her mother’s work prompts questions about restoration, cultural memory, and the endurance of political art in an era of flattened aesthetics.

Sleeping with the Enemy: The Handmaiden at 10

by Emily Jisoo Bowles

On the anniversary of Japan’s World War II surrender and the end of colonial rule in Korea, we examine how Park Chan-wook folds political critique into the visual pleasures of his erotic thriller.

The 2026 BFI London Film Festival line-up has been announced

A packed line-up of big names, hidden treasures and arthouse faves is making its way to the capital as the UK’s biggest film festival returns for its 70^th edition.

The Dead Screen as a Mirror: Metacinema and the Trans Gaze

by Edie Barnabas

Through films about films and characters in the act of watching, a new wave of trans filmmakers is transforming a medium that has long distorted their image into one that can reflect their own.

Pedro Almodóvar: ‘Everyone that surrounds a writer feeds their creation’

by David Jenkins

The Spanish maestro is in confessional mode with his stirring and self-reflexive latest, Bitter Christmas.

Behind the Window Display: Cinema's Desperate Salesmen

by Ariana Martinez

Lacking the confidence to emulate the smooth-talking charlatans of the business world, these salesmen’s entrepreneurial personas end up as artificial as their shopfront displays.

Andrzej Wajda’s Cinema of Complicated Defiance at 100

by Juliette Bretan

On the centenary of a Polish cinema giant, we remember the powerful storytelling of Andrzej Wajda through his war and post-war films.

Celebrating the Splendour, Anarchy and Creative Genius of Sandy Powell

by Desirae Embree

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s reimagining of James Whale’s 1935 classic The Bride of Frankenstein marks 40 years in the singular career of costume designer Sandy Powell.

Playground Love: How Air scored The Virgin Suicides

by Paul Weedon

The French electronic duo were the musical backbone behind Sofia Coppola’s startling debut. A 25^th anniversary reissue saw them reconstructing much of their work from scratch.

Life is a B-Movie: Joe D’Amato’s Bizarre Prophecy of 2025

by Mila Fielker

A dystopian retro-future of telepathic mutants, gladiators and fascists – does Joe D’Amato’s vision of 2025 show any resemblance to our current reality?

The New Bootlegs: Open Matte Films & Unofficial Scans

by Lexie Corbett

The unofficial, often open matte scans of these films preserve a tactile history of cinema in its imperfect totality.