9 best London Film Festival movies – and when they’re in UK cinemas Life&Style Over 250 films, 33 world premieres, and 88 participating countries… City AM’s culture desk have rounded up the movies we saw at this year’s London Film Festival, which has wrapped for another year. From legal dramas to terrifyingly prescient films about AI, alternative histories and horrors, here are our thoughts on the releases this year, [...]
Paper Tiger review: Adam Driver and Miles Teller star in gritty gangster thriller Life&Style Adam Driver and Miles Teller elevate James Gray’s gritty 1980s New York crime thriller, even as Paper Tiger falters at the finish.
Nightborn film review: Troll baby horror is a real slog Life&Style Read why Hanna Bergholm’s Nightborn turns troll-baby body horror and postpartum dread into a bleak, bloody but ultimately dull slog.
Bugonia review: Emma Stone denies being an alien October 16, 2025 Since his 2015 breakthrough The Lobster, Yorgos Lanthimos has become one of Hollywood’s stranger indie darlings, known for injecting macabre tales with the adrenaline shot of star power, often in the form of Emma Stone. Bugonia, for the most part, is one of his more straightforward movies, certainly compared to the gothic weirdness of Poor [...]
& Sons review: Bill Nighy is immense in family drama with a twist October 16, 2025 In 2022’s Living, Bill Nighy played a dapper old gent grappling with his mortality amid the realisation life has largely passed him by. In many ways, Argentinian director Pablo Trapero’s English language debut & Sons is the equal and opposite of that film, following a broken, decrepit husk of a man who has long-since achieved [...]
After the Hunt: Luca Guadagnino’s MeToo drama misfires October 15, 2025 Luca Guadagnino’s films tackle the big questions: “What if tennis players were sexy?” “What if Suspiria was boring?” “What if a man had sex with fruit?” His latest, After the Hunt, asks an altogether more controversial question: “What if we shouldn’t believe women?” This post-post-MeToo parable has the dubious honour of capturing the cultural crossroads [...]
Anemone review: Daniel Day-Lewis returns in his son’s debut film October 15, 2025 After starring in some of the most iconic movies of the last 40 years – Gangs of New York, There Will Be Blood, The Age of Innocence – Daniel Day-Lewis retired after 2017’s Phantom Thread. Perhaps the most famous of the method actors, his commitment to the bit – three years in the gym for [...]
No Other Choice review: Is Park Chan-wook satire a new Parasite? October 15, 2025 You could make a case for Park Chan-wook having the most absurdly varied CV of any living director. Coming to international attention in 2003 with cult classic revenge movie Oldboy, his oeuvre includes steamy psychological thriller Stoker, disturbing erotica The Handmaiden and romantic neo-noir Decision to Leave. Next up is No Other Choice, a sprawling, [...]