The best films now on UK streaming services

BFI Flare

We are bringing you #BFIFlareAtHome. An opportunity to see on BFI Player a number of great LGBTIQ+ shorts and features from 20-29 March that were due to screen at BFI Flare.

CPH:DOX online

This year ‘s edition of the Danish international documentary festival has gone online – including many premiere titles and virtual events – for native Danes plus accredited press and industry delegates. 

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Festival Scope

The Perfect Candidate review: a political fable fuelled by optimism

Haifaa Al-Mansour’s winning story of a small-town doctor who finds herself standing for election relishes progressiveness and pizzazz in contemporary Saudi Arabia, writes John Bleasdale.
Sunday 1 September 2019

System Crasher: a traumatised nine-year-old girl falls through the cracks

Nora Fingscheidt’s powerful debut exposes a system unable to cope with a young girl removed from her mother’s care and prone to fits of uncontrollable rage, by Nikki Baughan.
Friday 27 March 2020

And Then We Danced review: finding a new rhythm as a gay man in Georgia

Radical choreography, queer resistance and national identity combine in Levan Akin’s sophisticated and rich drama about a young performer fighting to express himself on and off the dancefloor, writes Ben Walters.
Thursday 12 March 2020

Cunningham review: revisiting the work of a giant of modern dance

Director Alla Kovgan stages sequences from 14 of the choreographer’s most challenging works, creating a documentary that focuses, refreshingly, on the art rather than the commentary, writes Graham Fuller.
Thursday 12 March 2020

Portrait of a Lady on Fire review: Céline Sciamma’s thrilling, erotic story of women in love

Noémie Merlant plays an artist hired to paint a woman, Adele Haenel, who refuses to be painted, in this chamberpiece of shapes, textures and female solidarity, writes Catherine Wheatley.
Wednesday 26 February 2020

Long Day’s Journey Into Night review: Bi Gan’s extravagant art noir wows in three dimensions

Divided into unequal halves, this self-conscious movie shadows a tough guy led astray by two mysterious women and culminates in an audacious extended 3D sequence filmed in one shot, writes Tony Rayns.
Thursday 2 January 2020

Midnight Family: patrolling Mexico City in a private ambulance

Life-or-death healthcare comes at a high price in a city where life can be stranger than fiction, as Luke Lorentzen’s gripping fly-on-the-wall documentary reveals, writes Demetrios Matheou.
Wednesday 19 February 2020

Sorry We Missed You review: Ken Loach counts the cost of striving in austerity Britain

When a father of two takes a job as a courier, the iniquities of the gig economy push him and his family to breaking point in the latest, considerably accomplished, drama from Loach and Paul Laverty, writes Trevor Johnston.
Thursday 31 October 2019

Official Secrets review: Keira Knightley shoulders a true-life Iraq War whistleblowing thriller

Knightley’s ascetic account of GCHQ whistleblower Katharine Gun is the true north of Gavin Hood’s solid, spiralling spy procedural, says Matthew Taylor.
Thursday 17 October 2019

Mr. Jones review: the horrors of the Holodomor, witnessed by a Welsh reporter

A fearless journalist investigates the famine in Ukraine during WWII in this overstretched but nobly intentioned drama directed by Agnieszka Holland, writes Philip Kemp.
Thursday 6 February 2020

Shooting the Mafia review: Italy’s first female photojournalist looks back in anguish

Kim Longinotto weaves together the life story of a remarkable woman with an acute social portrait of Italy’s struggle with the Mafia, by Hannah McGill.
Friday 29 November 2019

Monos review: a fever dream of children at war

Alejandro Landes’s surrealist portrait of child soldiers living in chaos is an anarchic and unpredictable experience right until the end, writes Maria Delgado.
Thursday 24 October 2019

End of the Century review: a bittersweet series of Barcelona romantic encounters

Lucio Castro’s impressively daring debut details a love story between two men in three chance encounters across different decades, writes Maria Delgado.
Thursday 20 February 2020

Atlantics review: a mysterious fable of class, migration and heartbreak

Mati Diop’s richly mythological Dakar-set film is a gorgeous meditation on the lives lost to the sea and the women who mourn them, writes Catherine Wheatley.  
Wednesday 27 November 2019

I Lost My Body review: the touching tale of a manus on a mission

O body, where art thou? A French animation about a dismembered hand won the Critics’ Week Grand Prize at Cannes. Imagine if The Thing from The Addams Family had its own action franchise, says Isabel Stevens.
Thursday 23 May 2019

Klaus review: cutting-edge festive animation with a cynical sting

The first animated feature from Netflix combines groundbreaking technology, a witty premise and some seriously nasty protagonists to create a Christmas story to please your inner Scrooge, writes Alex Dudok de Wit.
Monday 11 November 2019

The Irishman review: De Niro and Scorsese say goodbye to the goodfellas

A digitally de-aged Robert De Niro leads Martin Scorsese’s epic portrait of the man who may have shot Jimmy Hoffa, writes Graham Fuller.
Wednesday 2 October 2019