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London Film Festival · 2017

London Film Festival 2017

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11 films · 5 reviews

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Bad Lucky Goat

Two siblings try to cover their tracks after they kill a goat by accident.

(Country: Colombia; Year: 2017; Director: Samir Oliveros; Stars: Kiara Howard, Elkin Robinson, Honlenny Huffington, Jean Bush, Michel Robinson, Ambrosio Huffington)

Brigsby Bear

Review preview for Brigsby Bear

Saturday Night Live regular Mooney, who has a twinkly mischievousness and comic timing reminiscent of a young Gene Wilder, plays James as naive, but never stupid.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
Brigsby Bear Adventures is a children's TV show produced for an audience of one: James. When the show abruptly ends, James's life changes forever, and he sets out to finish the story himself.

(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Dave McCary; Writer: Kevin Costello, Kevin Costello, Kyle Mooney, Kyle Mooney; Stars: Kyle Mooney, Claire Danes, Mark Hamill, Greg Kinnear, Matt Walsh, Michaela Watkins)

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Funny Cow

Review preview for Funny Cow

The film is in danger of resembling a caricature of working class life, circa 1960

Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
A woman tries to make it as a stand-up in the Northern clubs at a time when sexism and alcohol and bad jokes prevailed.

(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Adrian Shergold; Writer: Tony Pitts; Stars: Maxine Peake, Paddy Considine, Stephen Graham, Alun Armstrong, Tony Pitts, Lindsey Coulson, Mary Shackleton, Diane Morgan, Hebe Beardsall, Christine Bottomley)

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Ingrid Goes West

A young woman becomes obsessed with an Instagram lifestyle blogger and moves to Los Angeles to try to befriend her in real life.

(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Matt Spicer; Writer: David Branson Smith, Matt Spicer; Stars: Aubrey Plaza, Elizabeth Olsen, Wyatt Russell, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Pom Klementieff, Billy Magnussen, Charlie Wright, Megan Griffey, Hannah Pearl Utt, Angelica Amor, Malika Williams, Tina Lorraine, Jana Ritter)

Jabberwocky

Review preview for Jabberwocky

Gilliam's monster, when we finally see it, is so hideous a thing that we can only be grateful this film is played for laughs.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
Anxious to make his fortune and win the hand of his beloved Griselda, a cooper's son agrees to support a knight on his quest to slay a monster.

(Country: UK; Year: 1977; Director: Terry Gilliam; Writer: Charles Alverson and Terry Gilliam, based on the poem by Lewis Carroll.; Stars: Michael Palin, Harry H. Corbett, John Le Mesurier, Warren Mitchell, Max Wall, Rodney Bewes, John Bird, Bernard Bresslaw, Antony Carrick, Peter Cellier)

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King Of Peking (Jing Cheng Zhi Wang)

Big Wong and his son Little Wong are traveling film projectionists, screening Hollywood movies for local villagers. Faced with losing custody of his son, Big Wong starts making and selling illegal bootleg DVDs out of the old movie theater where he works, despite Little Wong’s objections.

(Country: US, Australia, China; Year: 2017; Director: Sam Voutas; Writer: Sam Voutas; Stars: Jun Zhao, Wang Naixun, Qing Han, Si Chao, Bowen Geng, Long Yi, Min Zhou, Yi Qin, Changxin Fan, Maishun Cao, Wei Ai, Lishan Feng, Zhongli Zheng)

Lots Of Kids, A Monkey And A Castle (Muchos hijos, un mono y un castillo)

Julita always wanted lots of kids, a monkey, and a castle. After finally realizing these wishes, however, her family loses their property in the economic crisis. But they have not lost the disarming ease and kindheartedness that mark their domestic squabbling.

(Country: Spain; Year: 2017; Director: Gustavo Salmerón)

The Meyerowitz Stories (New And Selected)

Review preview for The Meyerowitz Stories (New And Selected)

The balance of the super real with intricately timed artifice and how they collapse into each other is Baumbach's crown achievement.

Anne-Katrin Titze · 4.5 out of 5
Comedy drama about a family who gather in New York to celebrate the work of their dad.

(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Noah Baumbach; Writer: Noah Baumbach; Stars: Adam Sandler,Emma Thompson, Ben Stiller,Dustin Hoffman, Elizabeth Marvel, Candice Bergen, Danny Flaherty, Rebecca Miller, Jared Sandler, Adam David Thompson, Lyne Renee, Cindy Cheung, Sakina Jaffrey, Mickey Sumner, Annabelle Dexter-Jones, Adam Driver, Grace Van Patten, Judd Hirsch, Michael Chernus)

Full review See: Conversation with Dustin Hoffman, Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller and Emma Thompson on The Meyerowitz Stories , Tribeca Talks: Dustin Hoffman takes on Noah Baumbach

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Person To Person

A record collector hustles for a big score while his heartbroken roommate tries to erase a terrible mistake, a teenager bears witness to her best friend’s new relationship and a rookie reporter, alongside her demanding supervisor, chases the clues of a murder case involving a life-weary clock shop owner.

(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Dustin Guy Defa; Writer: Dustin Guy Defa; Stars: Michael Cera, Abbi Jacobson, Philip Baker Hall, Michaela Watkins, Tavi Gevinson, Olivia Luccardi, Craig Butta, Ben Rosenfield, Hunter Zimny, Bene Coopersmith, George Sample III, Buddy Duress, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Eleonore Hendricks, Frank Mosley)

Quality Time

Review preview for Quality Time

An excellent demonstration (in places) of Daan Bakker's agility and ability as a writer and director.

Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
Five men, five stories.

(Country: Netherlands; Year: 2017; Director: Daan Bakker; Writer: Daan Bakker; Stars: Steve Aernouts, Idar Andersen, Maja Baaserud, Thomas Aske Berg, Anneke Blok, Bert Bunschoten, Steef Cuijpers, Raymonde de Kuyper, Randi Egeland, Tore Egeland, Adam Ekeli, Dennis Foose, Gaute Garlid, Fred Goessens, Vegar Hoel)

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Word Of God (Gud taler ud)

Comedy about a dysfunctional family.

(Country: Denmark; Year: 2017; Director: Henrik Ruben Genz; Writer: Henrik Ruben Genz, Bo Hr Hansen, based on the book by Jens Blendstrup; Stars: Søren Malling, Marie Askehave, Maria Erwolter, Mads Riisom, Miri Ann Beuschel, Lisa Nilsson, Marcus Sebastian Gert, Clint Ruben, Mads Langelund, Peter Hellemann, Jenny Asterius)