Aggressive, off-kilter, and packing an emotional rawness that’s often sanded out of too-careful British dramas, Hoard savors the clutter and excretions of childhood trauma.
If you're looking for the motherload of British award fodder for 2023, look no further than the BFI London Film Festival, which has everything from the debuts of All of Us Strangers and Saltburn to screenings of One Life and The End We Start From.
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar feels like we’re being invited into a very personal Wes Anderson space, where he makes a deep-cut his own, while still venerating an author he clearly loves.
In the Land of Saints and Sinners is a film with one of the strongest Irish casts in recent memory and a script with frighteningly little to offer them.
Finally Dawnworks best as a pithy blurb summing up all that’s noteworthy about it, handily omitting the fact that everything that’s interesting about the finished product is stranded in an intolerably long and dull film.
