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)