All articles by Nikki Baughan
Body of Water: How Lucy Brydon’s debut captures the loneliness of living with anorexia
First-time director Lucy Brydon discusses the challenges of tackling anorexia head on for her moving, realistic human drama Body of Water.
By Nikki Baughan
On the Rocks review: Sofia Coppola explores mommy and daddy issues
By Nikki Baughan
The outsider: Claire Oakley on her Cornish caravan park thriller Make Up
By Nikki Baughan
About bloody time: Saint Frances is a comedy tackling tired taboos about female experience
By Nikki Baughan
Clemency review: death row walls in Alfre Woodard’s warden
By Nikki Baughan
Fanny Lye Deliver’d: Maxine Peake and Thomas Clay on their 17th-century folk thriller
By Nikki Baughan
Watching Women Make Film – How to tackle Mark Cousins’ 14-hour road movie
By Nikki Baughan
Kitty Green on The Assistant: “We all know what happens behind that closed door”
By Nikki Baughan
Five reasons to watch election drama The Perfect Candidate
By Nikki Baughan
Vivarium review: a smart satire on suburban soullessness
By Nikki Baughan
System Crasher: a traumatised nine-year-old girl falls through the cracks
By Nikki Baughan
Midnight Traveller review: home movies in exile
By Nikki Baughan
Little Women review: Greta Gerwig emancipates Louisa May Alcott’s spirited sisters
By Nikki Baughan
In praise of the undersung art of documentary editing
By Nikki Baughan
The poetry of small moments: How we filmed Ordinary Love
By Nikki Baughan
Motherless Brooklyn review: Edward Norton’s underclass gumshoe takes Manhattan
By Nikki Baughan
The Nightingale review: a haunting, nightmarish tale of a woman’s take-no-prisoners revenge
By Nikki Baughan
Harriet review: Cynthia Erivo captures the righteous fury of an abolitionist heroine
By Nikki Baughan
For Sama review: a mother-and-daughter’s-eye view of the devastation of Aleppo
By Nikki Baughan
Antonio Banderas: 10 essential performances
By Nikki Baughan
Dirty God review: Sacha Polak fleshes out a burn survivor’s story
By Nikki Baughan
Woman at War review: the super earth mother we need now
By Nikki Baughan
Wild Rose review: Jessie Buckley’s Glasgow dreamer keeps on keeping on
By Nikki Baughan
Carol Morley on her star-gazing New Orleans neo-noir Out of Blue
By Nikki Baughan
The Rider review: a visceral, organic western
By Nikki Baughan
Yes, 9 to 5 really is a feminist movie
By Nikki Baughan
60 years of awards at the London Film Festival – A brief history of the competition
By Nikki Baughan
10 great American teen films of the 1980s
By Nikki Baughan