Here are some quick links to reviews of the films that I’ve loved the most. I don’t review every film I see so I’ve included the names of my other 5 star films. For your information.

5 Star

• About Elly (2009)
• Arrival (2016)
• Chevalier (2015)
• For Sama (2019)
• Gayby Baby (2015)
• A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)
• Glory (Slava) (2016)
• In the Crosswind (Risttuules) (2014)
• The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
• Let the Right One In (2008)
• The Lobster (2015)
• Magical Girl (2014)
• Nudo Mixteco (2021)
• Only the Brave (1994)
• Parasite (2019)
• Raw (Grave) (2016)
• Roma (2018)
• The Song Keepers (2017)
• Toni Erdmann (2016)
• Trust (1990)

4.5 Star

• 24 Frames (2017)
• Ága (2018)
• Album (2016)
• Anna and the Apocalypse (2017)
• Apprentice (2016)
• April’s Daughter (Las Hijas de Abril) (2017)
• The Australian Dream (2019)
• The Bad Seed (1956)
• Behemoth (2015)
• Being 14 (2015)
• Being 17 (A Quand On a 17 Ans) (2016)
• Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (2020)
• Born to Be (2019)
• Bright Weakness (Maryline) (2017)
• Captains of Za’atari (2021)
• Certain Women (2016)
• The Chosen Ones (2015)
• Cold War (Zimna Wojna) (2018)
• Come Back Anytime (2021)
• Coming Home in the Dark (2021)
• The Commune (2016)
• DAU. Natasha (2020)
• Diamond Island (2016)
• Don’t Call Me Son (2016)
• Exile (Exil) (2020)
• The Extraordinary (Hors Normes)(2019)
• Faces, Places (Visages, Villages) (2017)
• Fireworks Wednesday (2006)
• Fleabag (National Theatre Live) (2019)
• Frantz (2016)
• Fugue (Fuga) (2018)
• Gloria Bell (2018)
• God Exists, Her Name is Petrunija (2019)
• Greener Grass (2019)
• The Ground We Won (2015)
• Gurrumul (2017)
• The Handmaiden (2016)
• The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki (2016)
• I, Olga Hepnarova (2016)
• I Used to be Normal: A Boyband Fangirl Story (2018)
• In My Blood it Runs (2019)
• In the Fade (Aus dem Nichts) (2017)
• Insyriated (2017)
• Jinpa (2018)
• Jojo Rabbit (2019)
• The Killing of Two Lovers (2020)
• The King (2017)
• Kuessipan (2019)
• La Llorona (2019)
• La Verónica (2020)
• Language Lessons (2021)
• Last and First Men (2017)
• Leave No Trace (2018)
• Let the Sunshine In (2017)
• Lovesong (2016)
• The Maid (La Nana) (2009)
• A Man of Integrity (2017)
• Manuscripts Don’t Burn (2013)
• Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen (2018)
• Mustang (2015)
• My Happy Family (2017)
• My Life as a Courgette (2016)
• The Nightingale (2018)
• Ninjababy (2021)
• The Party (2017)
• Radio Dreams (2016)
• The Rider (2017)
• The Room (2003)
• Scary Mother (2017)
• Sleeping Beauty (2011)
• Smooth Talk (1985)
• Song Without a Name (Canción Sin Nombre) (2019)
• Sound and Fury (Khashm Va Hayahoo) (2016)
• Sorry Angel (Plaire, Aimer et Courir Vite) (2018)
• Starstruck (1982)
• Swallow (2019)
• Terror Nullius (2018)
• The Tale (2018)
• Tharlo (2015)
• Thelma and Louise (1991)
• Train to Busan (Busanhaeng) (2016)
• The Untamed (2016)
• Welcome to Chechnya (2020)
• Woman at War (Kona Fer I Strio) (2018)
• The Women (1939)
• Women Who Kill (2016)
• Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021)