Drama Reviews and Features | Little White Lies

Genre Drama

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Review

Love According to Dalva

by Alexandria Slater

Bel­gian film­mak­er Emmanuelle Nicot approach­es the sub­ject of child sex­u­al abuse with great sen­si­tiv­i­ty in her debut feature.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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Review

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

An elder­ly man begins a remark­able jour­ney after dis­cov­er­ing that a for­mer col­league has ter­mi­nal can­cer in Het­tie Mac­don­ald’s adap­ta­tion of Rachel Joyce’s best-sell­ing novel.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
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Review

How to Blow Up a Pipeline

by Hannah Strong

An ensem­ble of rad­i­cal cli­mate activists attempt to sab­o­tage an oil pipeline in Daniel Gold­haber’s envi­ron­men­tal­ist action-thriller.

4
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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Review

Missing

by Alison Rumfitt

Storm Reid anchors an enjoy­able, twisty thriller that leaves an unfor­tu­nate sour taste in the mouth.

2
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
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Review

Sick Of Myself

by David Jenkins

A com­pet­i­tive pair of self-obsessed nar­cis­sists will do just about any­thing for atten­tion in Kristof­fer Borgli’s satir­i­cal fea­ture debut.

3
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
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Review

A Thousand And One

by Cheyenne Bart-Stewart

A woman recent­ly released from prison rais­es her young son against the back­drop of a rapid­ly-chang­ing New York City in AV Rock­well’s Sun­dance prizewin­ning feature.

4
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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Review

One Fine Morning

by Savina Petkova

Léa Sey­doux stars as a sin­gle moth­er entan­gled in an affair with a mar­ried man in Mia Hansen-Løve’s pow­er­ful eighth feature.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
5
In Retrospect
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Review

Pacifiction

by David Jenkins

The Poly­ne­sian island of Tahi­ti rep­re­sents a trop­i­cal pur­ga­to­ry for the French colonists in Albert Serra’s apoc­a­lyp­tic polit­i­cal thriller.

4
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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Review

Cairo Conspiracy

by Charles Bramesco

Tarik Saleh’s lat­est sees the elec­tion of a new Grand Imam take place in Egypt’s most pres­ti­gious uni­ver­si­ty for Islam­ic scholarship.

3
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
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Review

Beau is Afraid

by Hannah Strong

Joaquin Phoenix plays a chron­i­cal­ly ner­vous man on a mis­sion to get home in Ari Aster­’s scat­tered third feature.

4
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect