British cinema spans everything from the Hammer horror boom of the 1950s and 60s to the gritty social realism that films like Fish Tank made impossible to ignore. That range, from The Curse of Frankenstein to kitchen-sink drama, is a big part of what makes it so consistently interesting. Have a browse through Macca's UK reviews below.
Rating: 4.0★
Eight minutes. No dialogue. One of the most devastating things I've ever watched. That's the short version of my thoughts on Michael Dudok de Wit's Father and Daughter, and honestly, it nearly does the job on its own. But it deserves more than that.
Rating: 3.5★
Being half Romani, I came to Time of the Gypsies carrying a particular kind of curiosity. I knew the Romani experience depicted here, in what was then Yugoslavia, would be worlds away from anything I grew up with in the UK. What I didn't quite expect was how
Rating: 2.5★
There is a moment in Hacksaw Ridge where a soldier casually picks up half a dismembered torso and uses it as a makeshift shield before sprinting forward and mowing down enemy troops with a light machine gun held in just one hand. I had to pause. I genuinely had to
Rating: 1.5★
There is a special kind of cynicism reserved for streaming cash-grabs, and John R. Leonetti's 2019 creature feature The Silence truly takes the biscuit. It is, without exaggeration, essentially a poor, straight-to-streaming tribute act to A Quiet Place. They even threw in a deaf child
Rating: 3.0★
I will be the first to admit that my viewing habits can lead me down some genuinely strange rabbit holes, and The Golden Spurtle is about as deep into the rabbit hole as I have ever gone. A documentary about the World Porridge Championships. I watched it. I watched all
Rating: 1.5★
There is a moment in the opening minutes of Attack the Block where a gang of London teenagers mug a young woman at knifepoint, goading and jeering as she runs away in terror. It is the very first thing we see them do. And from that point on, I spent
Rating: 2.5★
There's something both admirable and frustrating about Listen to Britain. Humphrey Jennings and Stewart McAllister's 1942 short is one of those films you feel almost obliged to respect, because the historical weight of what it captures is genuinely extraordinary. And yet, sitting with it as a
Rating: 2.0★
When you're told a ten-minute horror short is supposedly one of the most popular films ever to come out of the Seychelles, you go in expecting something. Anything. A jolt of atmosphere, a moment of genuine dread, a creature that actually gets to do something. What I
Rating: 3.0★
If you've ever stumbled across Who Killed Captain Alex? and found yourself completely won over by the sheer, unbridled enthusiasm of Wakaliwood cinema, then Jean-Pierre Bekolo's 1996 Cameroonian/Zimbabwean oddity Aristotle's Plot is going to feel like a surprisingly polished cousin of that
Rating: 4.0★
There's an early, sweeping aerial shot in this 2024 documentary that stops you cold. A brown, elegant shape glides effortlessly through the thick seaweeds of the Shetland coast, and it looks absolutely stunning. For a moment, I found myself bracing for the usual modern wildlife documentary catch: is
Rating: 2.0★
There are only nine films in Letterboxd's entire catalogue for Dominica. Nine. And apparently Nom Tèw is the most popular of the lot. That, more than anything else I could tell you, sets the scene for what kind of watch this is. I've been working my
Rating: 3.0★
There's a very specific, undeniable magic to the moment the needle drops on a classic Trojan Records compilation. That warm crackle, the skank of the rhythm guitar, the brass punching through. Nicolas Jack Davies's 2018 documentary Rudeboy: The Story of Trojan Records captures that exact frequency,
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