Showing Type: Film

Winner of a coveted Cannes prize and one of the best reviewed films of the year, Portrait of a Lady on Fire is a pitch-perfect blend of exquisite visual storytelling and raw emotion, with two indelible performances from its lead actresses.

23 Walks is a complex, tender and heart-warming comedy drama about finding love later in life. It is based around a simple premise of two elderly people who meet when walking their dogs.

Summerland is an intensely emotional story of love’s endurance in trying times. On her big screen directorial debut playwright Jessica Swale mixes aching melancholy with the giddy first flush of romance and heart-racing melodrama to powerful effect.

With a stellar cast and a smart, sensitive retelling of its classic source material, Greta Gerwig’s Little Women proves some stories truly are timeless.

It’s a true story. In a Monmouthshire village, Jan Vokes, Co-op checkout woman by day, barmaid by night, ambitiously decides to apply her pigeon-breeding expertise to horse racing. Dream Horse doesn’t pretend to be anything other than a crowd-pleaser, and that is its biggest strength.

If you loved “Downton Abbey” on the telly then you are going to love this film. Writer Julian Fellowes does a fine job of keeping all of the various balls in the air, balancing pathos and intrigue with splashes of repartee.

With double bluffs and knowingly byzantine plot twists, Knives Out nimbly swerves around the pitfalls of murder mysteries past. Full of rhythmic verve and pithy humour, this is uproariously entertaining film-making.

For Sama’ earned a standing ovation at the Cannes Film festival and it went on to win best documentary. For Sama powerfully distils the difficult choices faced by citizens of war-torn regions.

Adapted from Richard Forde’s book, Wildlife’s portrait of a family in crisis is beautifully composed by director Paul Dano and is brought brilliantly to life by a career-best performance from Carey Mulligan.