Ben Walters

Articles by Ben Walters

Features

In love and war: Terence Davies on Benediction

By Ben Walters

In love and war: Terence Davies on Benediction
Festivals

All of Us Strangers: Andrew Haigh’s glorious magic-realist meditation on grief

By Ben Walters

All of Us Strangers: Andrew Haigh’s glorious magic-realist meditation on grief
Reviews

Passages second look review: Ira Sachs pushes the limits of pleasure in this sensual three-hander

By Ben Walters

Passages second look review: Ira Sachs pushes the limits of pleasure in this sensual three-hander
Reviews

Lie With Me: a French love story with a discreet charm

By Ben Walters

Lie With Me: a French love story with a discreet charm
Reviews

Pretty Red Dress: an unsentimental celebration of self-acceptance

By Ben Walters

Pretty Red Dress: an unsentimental celebration of self-acceptance
Reviews

Beau is Afraid: Ari Aster’s overblown fantasia

By Ben Walters

Beau is Afraid: Ari Aster’s overblown fantasia
Features

Ron Peck honoured as BFI Flare returns

By Ben Walters

Ron Peck honoured as BFI Flare returns
Reviews

Magic Mike’s Last Dance: sizzling chemistry can’t save this muddled, shallow sequel

By Ben Walters

Magic Mike’s Last Dance: sizzling chemistry can’t save this muddled, shallow sequel
Reviews

Glass Onion: this Knives Out sequel is a well-paced screwball mystery

By Ben Walters

Glass Onion: this Knives Out sequel is a well-paced screwball mystery
What to watch at LFF

Lynch/Oz: a rich mix of video essays on an American master and his possible primal influence

By Ben Walters

Lynch/Oz: a rich mix of video essays on an American master and his possible primal influence
Reviews

All Is Vanity: a formally flexible fashion flick

By Ben Walters

All Is Vanity: a formally flexible fashion flick
Reviews

After Blue (Dirty Paradise): a blatantly bonkers bit of business

By Ben Walters

After Blue (Dirty Paradise): a blatantly bonkers bit of business
Reviews

Nope: the horrors of being seen

By Ben Walters

Nope: the horrors of being seen
Reviews

Maisie: portrait of the artiste as an old man

By Ben Walters

Maisie: portrait of the artiste as an old man
Reviews

Donna: sensitive story of the third act in a trans life

By Ben Walters

Donna: sensitive story of the third act in a trans life
Reviews

Everything Everywhere All at Once shows life as a fathomless multiverse

By Ben Walters

Everything Everywhere All at Once shows life as a fathomless multiverse
Reviews

The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent: A tongue-in-cheek caper that breaks on the rocks of self awareness

By Ben Walters

The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent: A tongue-in-cheek caper that breaks on the rocks of self awareness
Reviews

The Eyes of Tammy Faye is a sympathetic portrait of the hyperglamorous televangelist

By Ben Walters

The Eyes of Tammy Faye is a sympathetic portrait of the hyperglamorous televangelist
Reviews

Ellie & Abbie (& Ellie’s Dead Aunt) summons a ghost of queer past for high school advice

By Ben Walters

Ellie & Abbie (& Ellie’s Dead Aunt) summons a ghost of queer past for high school advice
Reviews

Martyr is a portrait of male physicality, both playful and restful

By Ben Walters

Martyr is a portrait of male physicality, both playful and restful
Interviews

How to play Rainer Werner Fassbinder: “An absolute monster who lived his art”

By Ben Walters

How to play Rainer Werner Fassbinder: “An absolute monster who lived his art”
Lists

Forgotten treasures of the multiplex

By Ryan Gilbey, Nick James and others

Forgotten treasures of the multiplex
Interviews

Oliver Hermanus on Moffie: “Apartheid created a very binary code”

By Ben Walters

Oliver Hermanus on Moffie: “Apartheid created a very binary code”

Welcome to the closet! BFI Flare’s Five Films for Freedom 2020 are online now

By Ben Walters

Welcome to the closet! BFI Flare’s Five Films for Freedom 2020 are online now
Reviews

And Then We Danced review: finding a new rhythm as a gay man in Georgia

By Ben Walters

And Then We Danced review: finding a new rhythm as a gay man in Georgia
Reviews

Stranger by the Lake review: Alain Guiraudie’s spellbinding erotic mystery

By Ben Walters

Stranger by the Lake review: Alain Guiraudie’s spellbinding erotic mystery
Polls

An A-Z of the 2010s in film

By Nick Bradshaw, Pamela Hutchinson and others

An A-Z of the 2010s in film
Features

Prospect Cottage: Derek Jarman’s wild garden

By Ben Walters

Prospect Cottage: Derek Jarman’s wild garden
Reviews

Film of the week: 120 BPM is an enthralling, devastating call to action

By Ben Walters

Film of the week: 120 BPM is an enthralling, devastating call to action