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Laal Singh Chaddha review: a Bollywood Forrest Gump
This remake of Robert Zemeckis’s iconic 1994 film is an Aamir Khan vehicle that adopts a mantle of popular musical entertainment to make some all-too-unpopular unpopular points about unity.
By Naman Ramachandran
5 things to watch this weekend – 12 to 14 August
By Peter Hill
Money moves: on Robert Bresson’s L’argent
By John Pym
10 great films about South Asian Britain
By Tom Jones
Sam Mendes’ Empire of Light announced as American Express Gala Film at the 66th BFI London Film Festival
Sam Mendes’ Empire of Light announced as American Express Gala Film at the 66th BFI London Film Festival60 years of The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner: how the locations look today
By Adam Scovell
Fortune Favours Lady Nikuko: a playful response to Studio Ghibli
By Andrew Osmond
Fairytale: deep-fake dictators in a nitrate nightmare
By John Bleasdale
Behind the scenes on The Man Who Fell to Earth, The Wicker Man and other British cinema classics
Behind the scenes on The Man Who Fell to Earth, The Wicker Man and other British cinema classicsAriyippu: a plague on both your spouses
By John Bleasdale
Human Flowers of Flesh: a Mediterranean marvel
By James Lattimer
Vengeance is Mine, All Others Pay Cash: as juicy as it sounds
By Tony Rayns
The mother, the whore and the dandy
By Keith Reader
5 things to watch this weekend – 5 to 7 August
By Samuel Wigley
Bullet Train: mind the gap between its ears
By Rebecca Harrison
Fadia’s Tree: a study of displacement with airborne grace notes
By Leila Latif
New BFI 4K UHD and Blu-rays announced for October to December 2022
New BFI 4K UHD and Blu-rays announced for October to December 2022New BFI and CHANEL Filmmaker Awards to celebrate creative audacity
New BFI and CHANEL Filmmaker Awards to celebrate creative audacitySurface: a show as superficial as its title
By Rafa Sales Ross
Maisie: portrait of the artiste as an old man
By Ben Walters
European premiere of Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery to close 66th BFI London Film Festival
European premiere of Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery to close 66th BFI London Film FestivalApplications now open for the BFI London Film Festival 2022 critics mentorship programme
Applications now open for the BFI London Film Festival 2022 critics mentorship programmeIrma Vep: a cinephile fantasy made flesh
By Catherine Wheatley
10 films to watch out for at Edinburgh International Film Festival 2022
By Kristy Matheson, Manish Agarwal and others