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Review

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

by Hannah Strong

Rian Johnson serves up the most spectacular, emotional and weirdest Star Wars film to date.

4
Anticipation
5
Enjoyment
5
In Retrospect
Aerial view of a busy beach with many people sunbathing and swimming in the sea, against a backdrop of golden sand and bright sunlight.
Review

Human Flow

by Victoria Luxford

Ai Weiwei’s nuanced and fascinating portrait of global migration is one of the year’s most important films.

4
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
Two people, a man and a woman, standing near a window overlooking a landscape. The woman is wearing a burgundy dress and the man is wearing a green coat.
Review

Phantom Thread

by David Jenkins

Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest is a swooning, masochistic love story set in mid-century London. It might just be his best film…

5
Anticipation
5
Enjoyment
5
In Retrospect
A person wearing a blue jumper and holding a large soft toy in a grassy field with mountains in the background.
Review

Brigsby Bear

by Josh Slater-Williams

If you go down in the woods today, you’re sure to be underwhelmed…

3
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
Two people with dark hair and casual clothes leaning in close, intimately touching foreheads.
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Stronger

by Charles Bramesco

David Gordon Green teams up with Jake Gyllenhaal to bring us a biopic that’s harder, better, faster…

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
Three individuals wearing formal attire, including a man in a tuxedo and two women in colourful dresses, standing together in what appears to be a formal event setting.
Review

The Disaster Artist

by Hannah Strong

It’s a Franco bros two-for-one in this madcap making-of yarn about Tommy Wiseau’s The Room.

4
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
Colourful cartoon figures; woman in yellow, duck-like creature, abstract shapes and patterns.
Review

Lu Over the Wall

by Michael Leader

Masaaki Yuasa’s second film of 2017 proves he’s one to watch in the animé world.

3
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
Two people wearing traditional Japanese clothing in a forest setting.
Review

Blade of the Immortal

by Glenn Heath Jr

Takashi Miike is up to his old tricks with this super samurai slaughter-fest.

3
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
A black-and-white portrait of a young man with dark hair and intense gaze, dressed in a suit and looking directly at the camera.
Review

Love, Cecil

by Joe Boden

Director Lisa Immordino Vreeland offers a glossy and superficial profile of photographer and socialite Cecil Beaton.

3
Anticipation
2
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
A woman with long, wavy, reddish-brown hair against a tan background, looking directly at the camera with a serious expression.
Review

Most Beautiful Island

by Anton Bitel

Ana Asensio gives an assured debut as writer and director with this haunting story about a migrant woman in the Big Apple.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect