BFI Flare 2024 preview for Sight & Sound

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BFI Flare 2024 includes two powerful features about trans experiences of family life, Close To You and Crossing.

All of Us Strangers review for Sight & Sound

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Andrew Haigh’s deeply affecting, time-slipping feature centres on a middle-aged gay writer grappling with the profound consequences of grief and structural homophobia.

Passages review for Sight & Sound

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Ira Sachs’s drama, starring Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw and Adèle Exarchopolous, explores three characters’ jostling wants and needs

Lie With Me review for Sight & Sound

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Olivier Peyon’s film explores the consequences of a teenage romance 35 years later.

Pretty Red Dress review for Sight & Sound

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Dionne Edwards’s debut feature deftly balances a family’s competing desires, vulnerabilities and insensitivities

Beau is Afraid review for Sight & Sound

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Ari Aster’s overblown pseudo-surreal picaresque odyssey is less a story about human beings in human situations than a trippy gamut of threats and feelings. It’s a lot.

BFI Flare 2023 preview for Sight & Sound

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London’s celebration of queer cinema includes a tribute to the pioneering British director of 1978’s Nighthawks.

Magic Mike’s Last Dance review for Sight & Sound

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The third film about the male entertainer played by Channing Tatum feels like an uncoordinated misstep.

Tropical Malady article for Sight & Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time issue 2023

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An introduction to a captivating work that defies straightforward understanding, and suggests understanding may be overrated.

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery review for Sight & Sound

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Reference and recapitulation are at the heart of Rian Johnson’s new film, a follow-up to Knives Out (2019), his popular reinvention of the country-house whodunit.