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London Film Festival

4 October – 15 November 2023

The 67th edition of the London Film Festival will run from October 4 to 15. It will open with Emerald Fennell's Saltburn, feature a gala screening of One Life, starring Anthony Hopkins and close with Daniel Kaluuya's The Kitchen.

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  • Unmoored
    Review preview for Unmoored

    Turestedt is excellent and very watchable.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    The ordered life of a TV presenter threatens to unravel when she finally confronts her domineering husband about yet another scandalous accusation.
  • Paradise Is Burning
    Review preview for Paradise Is Burning

    With a background in documentary, director Mika Gustafson captures something that, though not always coherent, feels fresh and raw and real.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Three sisters try to cope in the absence of parents, afraid that social services will split them up if they find out about their situation.
  • Only The River Flows
    Review preview for Only The River Flows

    No matter that the plot development is deliberately murky, it’s the mood that catches you in its tides.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A detective on the trail of a serial killer begins to lose his mind.
  • Poolman
    Review preview for Poolman

    The only mystery is why anyone would stay to the end of Poolman.

    Donald Munro · 1 out of 5
    A hapless dreamer and would-be philosopher spends his days looking after the pool of the Tahitian Tiki apartment block in sunny LA. When he uncovers a water heist, he does what he can to protect the city.
  • Animalia
    Review preview for Animalia

    Pregnancy is often depicted as a state of enhanced vulnerability, and one which points the way to increased dependency. Here, Alaoui turns that around.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    A young, pregnant woman finds emancipation as aliens land in Morocco.
  • Àma Gloria
    Review preview for Àma Gloria

    One of the most moving portraits of childhood seen recently on the screen.

    Richard Mowe · 4 out of 5
    Six-year-old Cléo loves her nanny Gloria more than anything. When Gloria must return to Cape Verde to care for her own children, the two must make the most of their last summer together.
  • Goodbye Julia
    Review preview for Goodbye Julia

    Kordofani uses the greater intimacy offered by the camera to bring us close to the characters and reveal the complex layers of relationship developing between them.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    Wracked by guilt after covering up a murder, Mona — a northern Sudanese retired singer in a tense marriage — tries to make amends by taking in the deceased’s southern Sudanese widow, Julia, and her son, Daniel, into her home.
  • Sky Peals
    Review preview for Sky Peals

    An unusually intimate, exploratory film underscored by dry humour, Sky Peals has an atmosphere that you won’t find anywhere else.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    A lonely man starts to piece together the story of his estranged father after his death and discovers the older man didn't believe he was human.
  • Hoard
    Review preview for Hoard

    Hoard goes further, creeps around, becomes something you can start to smell, to taste.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    1984, London: Seven-year-old Maria and her mother live in their own loving world built on sorting through bins and collecting shiny rubbish. One night, their world falls apart, and we join Maria a decade later, living with her foster mother.
  • Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever
    Review preview for Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever

    There’s not a great deal here that we haven’t seen before, but it’s well delivered.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A young woman unwittingly sets off a gruesome chain of revenge.

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