All articles by Ben Walters
Ellie & Abbie (& Ellie’s Dead Aunt) summons a ghost of queer past for high school advice
Monica Zanetti’s lesbian teen romance makes homophobia a historical issue as an uptight girl asks her classmate to the prom.
By Ben Walters
Martyr is a portrait of male physicality, both playful and restful
By Ben Walters
How to play Rainer Werner Fassbinder: “An absolute monster who lived his art”
By Ben Walters
Forgotten treasures of the multiplex
By Ryan Gilbey, Nick James and others
Oliver Hermanus on Moffie: “Apartheid created a very binary code”
By Ben Walters
Welcome to the closet! BFI Flare’s Five Films for Freedom 2020 are online now
By Ben Walters
And Then We Danced review: finding a new rhythm as a gay man in Georgia
By Ben Walters
An A-Z of the 2010s in film
By Nick Bradshaw, Pamela Hutchinson and others
Prospect Cottage: Derek Jarman’s wild garden
By Ben Walters
Film of the week: 120 BPM is an enthralling, devastating call to action
By Ben Walters
Podcast: three critics discuss the best of BFI Flare 2017
By Alex Davidson, So Mayer and others
Look back in wonder: FLARE 2016 critics’ roundtable
By So Mayer and Ben Walters
FLARE 2015 critics’ roundtable
By So Mayer, Frances Morgan and others
A pantheon of one’s own: 25 female film critics worth celebrating
By Anne Billson, Mark Cousins and others
Stranger by the Lake review: Alain Guiraudie’s spellbinding erotic mystery
By Ben Walters