As movie awards season heats up, things are getting busier for me - we're in the final week of voting in the London Critics' Circle Film Awards. I'm the chair of this group, so have quite a lot to do over the next few weeks before we announce our winners. Only a couple of the films I saw this week are awards-worthy. Ben Affleck earned a SAG nomination for his role in
The Tender Bar, a gentle and somewhat uneven personal drama that also stars Tye Sheridan and is directed by George Clooney. On the big screen, I had a press screening of the fifth
Scream movie, another self-referential meta-horror that plays it rather straight rather than going for something original. But it's fun to see Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and David Arquette back together on-screen.
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Memoria • Cow • Belle
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Smaller movies this week included the nutty horror
The Free Fall, which plays out in swirly confusion before a terrific but very late reveal. Lucy Hale stars in
Borrego, an underpowered thriller set on the drug-overrun desert on the California-Mexico border. There's more arthouse horror in
The Scary of Sixty-First, a stylish and sexy Manhattan freak-out. And from Switzerland,
The Fam (
La Mif) is a riveting doc-style drama set in a children's care home.
Films to watch this coming week include Michael B Jordan in
A Journal for Jordan, Christoph Waltz in
Rifkin's Festival, the Brazilian thriller
The Pink Cloud and the mountain-climber doc
Torn, plus awards contenders
Test Pattern, El Planeta, Azor and
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy .
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