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18 best movies of London Film Festival 2016
The best 18 movies we saw at BFI London Film Festival 2016, presented in alphabetical order because trying to rank them all would be stupid.
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Orange Sunshine – Documentary Review: London Film Festival 2016
Orange Sunshine is billed as a ‘little-known moment in American history,’ although of course it takes place in perhaps the most analysed and written-about decade in the history of the world.
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Lake Bodom – Movie Review: London Film Festival 2016
The decision to take an existing unsolved crime - in this case the brutal murder of a group of teenagers in 1960 at Lake Bodom, Finland - and turn it into the basis of a fictional slasher movie is a tricky one.
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Voyage Of Time: Life’s Journey – Movie Review: London Film Festival 2016
Voyage of Time: Life's Journey is a fantastically ambitious and expansive film by Terrence Malick, 40 years in the making and filled with wonder.
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Psychonauts, The Forgotten Children – Movie Review: London Film Festival 2016
Psychonauts, The Forgotten Children is a wildly inventive and darkly imaginative exploration of innocence, loss and family.
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Una – Movie Review: London Film Festival 2016
Una is a devastating, artfully constructed film, explicitly dissecting the complex aftermath of abuse.
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The Noonday Witch (Polednice) – Movie Review: London Film Festival 2016
Witches are getting a bad rap lately. Jiří Sádek’s Czech horror film The Noonday Witch won’t do them any favours.
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A United Kingdom – Movie Review: London Film Festival 2016
A United Kingdom reduces a fascinating true story of Seretse Khama and Ruth Williams to nothing more than a superficial paint-by-numbers romantic drama.
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Into the Forest (Dans la Forêt) – Movie Review: London Film Festival 2016
Gilles Marchand's brooding Into the Forest invokes The Shining and numerous spooky wood based movies but it just about holds it own.