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
Reviews
Passages second look review: Ira Sachs pushes the limits of pleasure in this sensual three-hander
By Ben Walters
Reviews
Lie With Me: a French love story with a discreet charm
By Ben Walters
Reviews
Pretty Red Dress: an unsentimental celebration of self-acceptance
By Ben Walters
Reviews
Beau is Afraid: Ari Aster’s overblown fantasia
By Ben Walters
Reviews
Magic Mike’s Last Dance: sizzling chemistry can’t save this muddled, shallow sequel
By Ben Walters
Reviews
Glass Onion: this Knives Out sequel is a well-paced screwball mystery
By Ben Walters
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
Reviews
All Is Vanity: a formally flexible fashion flick
By Ben Walters
Reviews
After Blue (Dirty Paradise): a blatantly bonkers bit of business
By Ben Walters
Reviews
Maisie: portrait of the artiste as an old man
By Ben Walters
Reviews
Donna: sensitive story of the third act in a trans life
By Ben Walters
Reviews
Everything Everywhere All at Once shows life as a fathomless multiverse
By Ben Walters
Reviews
The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent: A tongue-in-cheek caper that breaks on the rocks of self awareness
By Ben Walters
Reviews
The Eyes of Tammy Faye is a sympathetic portrait of the hyperglamorous televangelist
By Ben Walters
Reviews
Ellie & Abbie (& Ellie’s Dead Aunt) summons a ghost of queer past for high school advice
By Ben Walters
Reviews
Martyr is a portrait of male physicality, both playful and restful
By Ben Walters
Interviews
How to play Rainer Werner Fassbinder: “An absolute monster who lived his art”
By Ben Walters
Lists
Forgotten treasures of the multiplex
By Ryan Gilbey, Nick James and others
Interviews
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
Reviews
And Then We Danced review: finding a new rhythm as a gay man in Georgia
By Ben Walters
Reviews
Stranger by the Lake review: Alain Guiraudie’s spellbinding erotic mystery
By Ben Walters
Polls
An A-Z of the 2010s in film
By Nick Bradshaw, Pamela Hutchinson and others
Features
Prospect Cottage: Derek Jarman’s wild garden
By Ben Walters
Reviews
Film of the week: 120 BPM is an enthralling, devastating call to action
By Ben Walters