Contributions from David Jenkins | Little White Lies

Contributor David Jenkins

Festivals

Julie Keeps Quiet – first-look review

by David Jenkins

A young tennis star refuses to open about an abusive coach in Leonardo Van Dijl’s impressive feature debut.
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Emilia Perez – first-look review

by David Jenkins

This ghastly musical melodrama from Jacques Audiard tells of a Mexican cartel bosses’s gender affirming surgery.
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Caught by the Tides – first-look review

by David Jenkins

The Chinese maestro delivers his greatest film in this cut-and-paste jukebox musical melodrama.
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Kinds of Kindness – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Yorgos Lanthimos returns with another scorcher in this innovative and darkly comic trio of films about spiritual domination.
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Megalopolis – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Ignore the haters – this is the kaleidoscopic, enriching, Wellsian vision of a grand old master with nothing to lose.
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The Girl with the Needle – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Magnus Von Horn brings subtlety and empathy to the serial killer genre in this extraordinary true-life yarn.
Festivals

The Second Act – first-look review

by David Jenkins

The opening film of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival offers a limp metafictional critique of the modern film industry.
Review

Hoard review – proudly strange and provocative

by David Jenkins

Seek out this stunning, empathetic and radical British debut from first-time British filmmaker Luna Carmoon.

4
Anticipation
5
Enjoyment
5
In Retrospect
Review

Made In England: The Films Of Powell & Pressburger review – a delicious whirlwind tour

by David Jenkins

A rousing personal journey with Martin Scorsese through the films made under the iconic banner of The Archers.

4
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
Review

Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry review – a perfect lead performance

by David Jenkins

A happily single Georgian woman is forced to reconsider her life of solitude when she falls in love in Elene Naveriani’s bittersweet romantic dramedy.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect

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