London Film Festival

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The Diary of a Teenage Girl director Marielle Heller teams up with Melissa McCarthy to tell the story of Lee Israel in Can You Ever Forgive Me?

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Chris Pine and director David Mackenzie return together in a new medieval Netflix film, in which Scotland is (once again) trying to free itself from the English

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British social-realist filmmaker Mike Leigh returns to historical drama, but on a far grander scale. Starring Maxine Peake, Peterloo tackles the 1819 Peterloo Massacre in Manchester

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Photographer Richard Billingham revisits his childhood with a powerful stillness and love laced with dysfunction in his debut feature film Ray & Liz

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Dakota Johnson dances with witches in Luca Guadagnino's Suspiria, a disturbing new 'homage' to Dario Argento's 1977 cult classic

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Hungarian director Laszlo Nemes is back with Sunset, a mysterious tale of a woman in a Budapest hat shop during the lead up to World War I

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Natalie Portman dazzles as an abrasive chameleonic popstar in Vox Lux, Brady Corbet's film of stardom and sorrow

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This week at London Film Festival, David and Nic Sheff are the father and son living through addiction and heartbreak in Beautiful Boy, Felix Van Groeningen's stunning feature

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London Film Festival is in full swing. For the busiest week in the film calendar this year, here are the best films to catch and tickets to book right now

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Oscar-winning director Alfonso Cuaron returns home with his new film Roma, a stunning and emotional story of his hometown

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Six stories, one Netflix anthology: the Coen Brothers head West in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, a fun journey of cartoons and chaos

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In Colette, Keira Knightley goes against the norms of 19th century society – sleeping with men, women, and writing the most popular French novels of the time.

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Ben Wheatley's excellent new comedy Happy New Year, Colin Burstead is a dizzy exploration of family and its many burdens

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Opening this year's London Film Festival, 12 Years A Slave director Steve McQueen teams up with writer Gillian Flynn on Widows, this Autumn's biggest hard-hitting crime drama

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Closing the BFI London Film Festival in a couple of weeks, the new trailer for Stan & Ollie shows Laurel & Hardy at their best.

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Lucile Hadžihalilović (Innocence) returns with Evolution, a chilling film about a remote island, a mysterious medical treatment and a curious boy

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Tom Hiddleston & Sienna Miller star in J.G. Ballard's sci-fi classic adapted for the big screen

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Film review: The Witch from director Robert Eggers is a period horror with oodles of style

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John Crowley's film adaptation of Brooklyn is a shining romance, performed with poignance by Saoirse Ronan

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New film about the controversial Apple pioneer has the dual talents of Danny Boyle and Michael Fassbender at the helm

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Jay Roach's biographical drama Trumbo starring Bryan Cranston arrives at London cinemas

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Tilda Swinton and Ralph Fiennes are at their best in Luca Guadagnino's remake of La Piscine. A Bigger Splash movie comes to London cinemas in February.

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S. Craig Zahler's violent horror Western Bone Tomahawk comes to London screens.

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Lenny Abrahamson's new drama Room, based on the best-selling novel by Emma Donoghue, premiered at the London Film Festival to high critical praise.

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Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara are nothing short of hypnotising in Todd Hayne's electrifying period film Carol. Here's our review from London Film Festival 2015

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Nicholas Hytner's screen adaptation of Alan Bennett's The Lady in the Van is witty, charming and heart-warming, with a mighty performance from Maggie Smith

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Cinematic and highly dramatic (at times to a fault) it's still difficult not to be moved by this portrait of one of the world's youngest and most influential political activists.

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We were blown away by Sean Baker's vibrant and original transgender romp through the L.A. backstreets.

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We talk to the controversial director about why Thailand doesn't feel safe for him any more, and how dreams are a symbol for him of his nation's powerlessness.

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Read our They Will Have To Kill Us First review. New documentary about musicians from Mali: music in exile

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New documentary about Russell Brand is entertaining and disturbing in equal measure – much like the man himself.

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Patricio Guzmán's emotive documentary The Pearl Button is a beautiful and haunting new masterpiece. Here's our review from London Film Festival 2015