Country United Kingdom
A Tail has a premise so bold and so promising that I spent most of its twelve minutes rooting for it to stick the landing, and I came away admiring a great deal while wishing it had been braver with its ending. Rosie Gaunt-Mathieson's modern mermaid comedy
Country Uruguay
There is a wickedly good premise at the heart of Federico Borgia's Prince, and a pedigree cast to carry it, but this Uruguayan dark comedy never quite sinks its teeth in. It is a perfectly pleasant watch, handsomely made and nicely performed, yet for a film built on
Country Australia
Every so often a short comes along with a premise so neat you wonder why no one had done it before, and A Grief Encounter is one of those. James Ashley McLaren's Australian short is a funny, tender and genuinely original little film about a lonely taxidermist and
2020s
There is a lovely idea buried inside Comédie-Française, and every so often the film brushes up against it. The Comédie-Française is the oldest still-performing theatre company in the world, an institution with three and a half centuries of history and one iron rule: the show is never
Country United Kingdom
I will be honest, for its first twenty minutes I was not at all sure about Lady, and then it pulled a swerve that completely won me over. What begins as a familiar cringe-comedy mockumentary quietly transforms into something far stranger, sadder and more ambitious, and by the end
Country United Kingdom
There is a good gag at the centre of Tia Salisbury's The Devil Is In Me, and a couple of genuinely funny moments scattered through it, but this surreal little period comedy never quite adds up to more than the sum of its odd parts. It is a
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