Movie Reviews

This well-mounted ensemble comedy sees a schlubby Josh Radnor forced to deal with a visit from his eccentric parents and brother. The post All Happy Families review – a sweet reckoning with family strife appeared first on Little White Lies.

A former judge finds himself confined to a nursing home where a sinister puppet rules the roost in James Ashcroft's effective horror. The post The Rule Of Jenny Pen review – a stand-out ageing horror appeared first on Little White Lies.

John Malkovich is an electro pop god with an axe to grind in this glossy music industry horror-satire by debut director Mark Anthony Green The post Opus review – off-key pop industry satire misses all its cues appeared first on Little White Lies.

Karan Kandhari’s film about a misanthropic newlywed giving into her feral impulses is an unpredictable, genre-bending delight. The post Sister Midnight review – a droll, strange, cool freak of a film appeared first on Little White Lies.

A trailblazer on the global cinema stage as well as in his home of Mali, Souleymane Cissé's cinema of imagination changed the world. The post Remembering Souleymane Cissé: An Uncompromising Pioneer of African Cinema appeared first on Little White Lies.

Filmmaker Raoul Peck unearths the searing social realist photographs of an artist whose work was thought to be lost. The post Ernest Cole: Lost and Found review – a vital piece of cine-portraiture appeared first on Little White Lies.

The dire lot of a low-paid factory worker is the subject of this rigorous if hardly revelatory character study from debut director Laura Carreira. The post On Falling review – Solidly-made slice of Loachian miserablism appeared first on Little White Lies.

A spate of recent works are pondering the concept of replicating or separating oneself in response to our increasingly economically perilous world. The post Severed, Reprinted, Impersonated: The Rise of Cinema’s ‘Work Double’ appeared first on Little White Lies.

Nick Love and Danny Dyer are back with yet another boorish, small-minded take on the football hooligan genre. The post Marching Powder review – a proper, proper gaffe appeared first on Little White Lies.

Caveh Zahedi counts Greta Gerwig and the Safdie Brothers among his admirers – but where do you begin with a beast as strange and sprawling as his all-consuming magnum opus? The post What on Earth is The Show About the Show? appeared first on Little White Lies.