Notes on the BFI London Film Festival
Of the 248 feature films at the festival, 114 were directed by women—perhaps the biggest year for female directors in the festival’s history!
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American Honey (A24, R)
American Honey is a film that many people will end up taking sides on.
Lawless (The Weinstein Company, R)
Lawless is John Hillcoat’s best feature film to date, showing his talents as a director more than any of his previous films have.
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (Paramount Pictures, PG-13)
Bay’s brainless, adrenaline-filled drivel ensures that even the dimmest members of our society have something to watch.
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Dreamworks/Paramount Pictures, PG-13)
Director Michael Bay is known for big, dumb action movies. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen may just be his biggest, dumbest movie yet.
Eagle Eye (DreamWorks SKG, PG-13)
The sound of things crashing (another breathtaking sequence involving a skittering tractor-trailer rivals the one in the latest Die Hard movie), blowing up, careening this way and that, etc., is constant, and it’s somewhat atypical […]
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Paramount, PG-13)
Ford himself is as good as ever, taking on a Clint Eastwood-like ruggedness in his age.
Transformers (Dreamworks/Paramount Pictures, PG-13)
Where Bay succeeds is in boiling a long-running, continuity-laden franchise down to the bare essence of what makes it so appealing in the first place. The result, much like Bryan Singer’s first X-Men film, is true […]