Sirât (4.5*): Wowzer! Now This Is An Experience.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Sirât” (From the 2025 London Film Festival). (2025, 4.5*, ’15’). As an opening title proclaims, the Sirât Bridge in Islam is the bridge between…
One Battle After Another (4*): PTA’s Frenetic Caper Is Overlong But Wildly Entertaining.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “One Battle After Another” (2025, 4*, 15). Paul Thomas Anderson has followed up “Licorice Pizza” from 2021 with this very different action comedy-thriller. I…
Romeria (2*): Good Looking People In Beautiful Places Boring Me To Tears.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Romeria” (From the 2025 London Film Festival). (2025, 2*, ’15’). I’m afraid my run of good films (imho) at the LFF had to come…
Exit 8 (3.5*): A High-Stakes Game of Spot The Difference.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Exit 8” (From the 2025 London Film Festival). (2025, 3.5*, ’15’). Original title: 8-ban deguchi. “Exit 8” is based on a Japanese-penned video game…
My Father’s Shadow (4*): A Father Introduces His Sons to the Realities of Lagos Life.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “My Father’s Shadow” (From the 2025 London Film Festival). (2025, 4*, ’12A’). In “My Father’s Shadow”, we are dunked into the chaos of the…
Promised Sky (3.5*): A Fascinating Slice of the Immigration Pie.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Promised Sky” (From the 2025 London Film Festival). (2025, 3.5*, ’12A’). Original title: Promis le ciel. With the appalling resurgence of fascism across the…
Enzo (3.5*): Dreamy Coming of Age of a Confused French Teen.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Enzo” (From the 2025 London Film Festival). (2025, 3.5*, ’15’). No, not an early prequel to “Ferrari“. “Enzo” came across to me as a…
Sound of Falling (3*): Suicidal Thoughts Might Come to You Too.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Sound of Falling” (From the 2025 London Film Festival). (2025, 3*, ’15’). Original title: In die Sonne schauen My first LFF screening for 2025,…
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (4*): Like Getting a Bit Hug From Old Friends.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale” (2025, 4*, PG). As a trilogy of films, Downton could have continued a downward slide down the rubbish chute.…
Sorry, Baby (3.5*): This Study of the Fallout From Rape is Well-Made, Quirky & Uncomfortable.
A One Mann’s Movies review of “Sorry, Baby” (2025, 3.5*, 15). At one point in this, college professor Agnes (Eva Victor) is class-appraising Nabokov’s novel “Lolita”. A male student pipes…
