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Image is from the film 'The Dose' (2021). A man in green scrubs holds his hand over his eye as he looks into a bathroom mirror.

BFI FLARE REVIEW: ‘The Dose’ (2021) Administers Great Direction But Poor Writing

By: Gavin Spoors 3rd Apr 20212nd Apr 2021

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The opening does a grand job of hooking the audience in but unfortunately the rest of the film isn’t nearly as strong or coherent.

Tove in her painting smock with a cigarette between her lips is reaching across the frame with a paintbrush in hand

BFI FLARE REVIEW: ‘Tove’ (2021) Lesbian Artists and Gay Moomins

By: Emily Maskell 25th Mar 202122nd Mar 2021

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“Alma Pöysti’s terrific performance as Tove, where her quiet affinity feels seismic, is effervescent.” Zaida Bergroth’s stunning biopic charmingly centres on artist and writer Tove Jansson’s (Alma Pöysti) bohemian life. Tove is a stylish period biography that gives a whole new perspective to the Moomins. Exuberantly visual in its charting of the artists’ life, Tove…

Black and white still from Rebel Dykes. An cartoon animated woman is walking across a bridge that has the sentence: "women say no male violence" spray painted

BFI FLARE REVIEW: ‘Rebel Dykes’ (2021) A Wonderfully Focused Lesbian Self-Documentation

In Rebel Dykes, directors Harri Shanahan and Siân Williams stitch together a patchwork of home video, cartoon animation and talking heads, in a reflection on London’s 1980s lesbian communities.

A still from the sci-fi film Bliss. The background is a sunny seaside resort with a blurred palm tree behind a confused man and happy woman. The man has blonde hair and is played by Owen Wilson, dressed in a grey suit jacket with a black shirt. He's holding a half-eaten peach. The woman has long black hair, dressed in a white gown, and is played by Salma Hayek. She's pointing proudly into the distance at something we cannot see.

REVIEW: Mike Cahill’s Sci-fi Drama ‘Bliss’ (2021) Gets Lost in a Silly, Weightless Plot

By: Kevin Woodley 10th Feb 20218th Feb 2021

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Not even Owen Wilson and Salma Hayek can rescue this dull sci-fi fantasy from glitching all over the place, and you’d expect a double act of this calibre to be a lot more fun than it is

Image is from the TV Series, 'Search Party'. A young woman with a buzzed haircut and a few small tattoos is chained to a chair.

REVIEW: In Series Four, ‘Search Party’ Returns to Its Roots

By: Carmen Paddock 2nd Feb 20211st Feb 2021

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Seeing the characters so inverted brings the show back to its roots, but this time viewers know both sides of the story from the start.

Angela Bettis in horror-comedy 12 Hour Shift. A woman in a light blue nurse uniform looks alarmed and annoyed, her gown and face are covered in blood. The background is a grey, bluish wall of an autopsy room.

REVIEW: Brea Grant’s Frenetically Fun Dark Horror Comedy ‘12 Hour Shift’ (2020) Flies Past

By: Kevin Woodley 24th Jan 202123rd Jan 2021

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Grant’s film treads a fine line of stone-faced humour, exploitation, and bloody violence, but a female centric cast and memorable performances make this an energetic and curious calling card

REVIEW: ‘Away’ (2019) is a Wondrous Artistic Achievement

By: Kevin Woodley 13th Jan 202113th Jan 2021

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See it on the biggest screen, with the best sound and in the darkest room, Zilbalodis’ remarkable animation will make you feel like you’re flying

REVIEW: The ‘Pieces of a Woman’ (2020) Don’t Add Up

By: Bailey Herdé 12th Jan 202112th Jan 2021

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As the film unfolds, “She’s Good” feels symptomatic of Pieces of a Woman’s overall disinterest in the layers of Martha’s emotions, especially her grief.

Image from the film 'Durgamati' (2020). A young woman is dressed in a red sari and glares menacingly in the distance.

REVIEW: ‘Durgamati’ (2020) is Cursed with Weak Writing

By: Vikas Yadav 21st Dec 202021st Dec 2020

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Right off the bat, G. Ashok’s Durgamati – The Myth, a remake of the director’s own 2018 film Bhaagamathie, rides on misdirection.

REVIEW: ‘The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend A Broken Heart’ (2020) Proves Disco Doesn’t Suck

By: Bailey Herdé 19th Dec 202019th Dec 2020

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“A joy to watch… [a] documentary not so much concerned with hard historical facts as it is with the brothers as they experienced each other, themselves, and their fame.” How Can You Mend A Broken Heart begins with the quintessential. A pared down, echoey version of “Stayin’ Alive”—probably the Bee Gees song to end all…