Posts by Ella Kemp

Return to Seoul

By Ella Kemp

Davy Chou’s bittersweet comedy of a Korean adoptee searching for her biological parents is powered by a dazzling lead performance.

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Why Pete Davidson should win the Best Supporting Actor Oscar

By Ella Kemp

His turn as the vapid, insecure David in Bodies Bodies Bodies proves there's more to Davidson than tabloid headlines and Saturday Night Live skits.

Disenchanted

By Ella Kemp

Anyone with fond memories of the 2007 meta-fairytale banger, Enchanted, starring Amy Adams, is in for a surprise and a treat.

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Living

By Ella Kemp

Oliver Hermanus teams up with Kazuo Ishiguro and Bill Nighy for a British reimagining of Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 masterpiece, Ikiru.

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Ruben Östlund: ‘I was interested in beauty as a currency’

By Ella Kemp

The two-time Palme d'Or-winning provocateur chats idealism, misogyny and modeling as Triangle of Sadness hits cinemas.

Red Rocket

By Ella Kemp

Simon Rex plays a washed-up porn actor in Sean Baker’s sparkling character study set around the Texan fringes.

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Flee

By Ella Kemp

A gay Afghan man leaves his home for a new life in Denmark in Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s moving documentary.

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Mothering Sunday

By Ella Kemp

Eva Husson’s English-language debut is a watered down adaptation of Graham Swift’s eponymous novel.

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Another Round

By Ella Kemp

Mads Mikkelsen and director Thomas Vinterberg continue their midlife crisis odyssey in rousing fashion.

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Songs My Brothers Taught Me

By Ella Kemp

There’s poetry in the mundane at every turn in Chloé Zhao’s impressive debut feature from 2015.

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The Perfect Candidate

By Ella Kemp

Haifaa Al Mansour’s latest sees female doctor challenge Saudi Arabian social norms by running for local election.

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Zombi Child

By Ella Kemp

A history lesson turns into a horror movie in Bertrand Bonello’s bold reclamation of the zombie legend.

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Good Posture

By Ella Kemp

Emily Mortimer stars in this half-baked adulting dramedy from actor-turned-director Dolly Wells.

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Good Boys

By Ella Kemp

The pains of prepubescence is the butt of this warm-hearted, foul-mouthed comedy from the makers of Superbad.

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Tell It to the Bees

By Ella Kemp

Anna Paquin and Holliday Grainger star in Annabel Jankel’s emotionally-strained sapphic romance.

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Wild Honey Pie! director Jamie Adams on the art of improvisation

By Ella Kemp

The prolific Welsh filmmaker discusses the merits of being in the moment on a film set.

Gloria Bell

By Ella Kemp

Julianne Moore plays a divorcé stepping to her own beat in Sebastián Lelio’s remake of his 2013 drama.

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Chicuarotes – first look review

By Ella Kemp

Gael García Bernal directs this sorry parable about a pair of criminalised teenage clowns.

Zombi Child – first look review

By Ella Kemp

Teenage heartache and Haitian voodoo culture come to the fore in Bertrand Bonello’s spiritual folk horror.

Deerskin – first look review

By Ella Kemp

Jean Dujardin is dressed to kill in director Quentin Dupieux’s pitch-black sartorial satire.

The Keeper

By Ella Kemp

Famed German goalkeeper Bert Trautmann is the subject of this delightful romantic biopic.

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Ben Is Back

By Ella Kemp

Lucas Hedges plays a teenage drug addict who attempts to reconcile with his mother.

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Sauvage

By Ella Kemp

Camille Vidal-Naquet’s impressive debut feature is infused with skin-prickling energy.

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What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael – first look review

By Ella Kemp

This portrait of the work of film critic Pauline Kael is a perfect reminder of why movies matter.

Boy Erased

By Ella Kemp

Lucas Hedges plays a young man struggling with his sexual identity in this tender drama from director Joel Edgerton.

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Six great films from the Aesthetica Short Film Festival 2018

By Ella Kemp

The ASFF’s biggest edition yet welcomed an impressive range of boundary-pushing works.

Teen Spirit – first look review

By Ella Kemp

Elle Fanning plays a young talent show hopeful in Max Minghella’s sweet-sounding directorial debut.

Angel – first look review

By Ella Kemp

The lives of a prostitute and a cyclist become intertwined over the course of a long, sensual night.

Boy Erased – first look review

By Ella Kemp

A mature central performance from Lucas Hedges anchors Joel Edgerton’s gay conversion therapy drama.

Christopher Robin

By Ella Kemp

Piglet, Pooh and Tigger too are brought back to life in this big-hearted Disney live-action animation.

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Netflix’s Set It Up is not your average millennial rom-com

By Ella Kemp

Claire Scanlon’s Manhattan meet-cute is a bouncy comedy with plenty to say about modern relationships.

At War – first look review

By Ella Kemp

Cannes darling Stephane Brizé returns with a trudging, cacophonous insight into the guts of industrial activism.

Sauvage – first look review

By Ella Kemp

This passionate debut from Camille Vidal-Naquet boldly challenges our perceptions of male sex workers.

Midnight Sun

By Ella Kemp

This teen-baiting romantic drama about a girl living with a rare disease is clichéd in the extreme.

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Lies We Tell

By Ella Kemp

Gabriel Byrne and Harvey Keitel slum it in the this subpar Brit gangster flick from Mitu Misra.

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No Stone Unturned

By Ella Kemp

Alex Gibney reopens a mysterious unsolved murder case in this incisive but frustratingly elusive documentary.

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In praise of Tessa Thompson’s Valkyrie, Marvel’s long-awaited saviour

By Ella Kemp

The American actor’s latest scene-stealing performance shows what a female superhero should look like.

Base

By Ella Kemp

This strange and unsatisfying doc-fiction hybrid takes in the crazy world of BASE jumping.

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10 things to see at the UK Jewish Film Festival 2017

By Ella Kemp

A tribute to Jerry Lewis and a Bollywood dancing class are among the highlights of this year’s festival.

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