Martin Jensen

[LFF Review] A Little Chaos

There’s hardly a subject more niche than 17th Century French royal gardening, but in the hands of Alan Rickman it becomes the backdrop for a charming romance wi...

[LFF Review] The President

The President (Misha Gomiashvili) demonstrates his dictatorial power to his grandson (Dachi Orvelashvili) by ordering the lights of the city turn off and on. Th...

[LFF Review] Son of a Gun

Son of a Gun borrows every cliché from the crime movie playbook as JR (Brenton Thwaites), a 19-year-old orphan, finds protection in prison from armed robber Bre...

[LFF Review] Phoenix

Following the Second World War, European auteurs probed its lingering national psychological fallout resulting in films such as Night and Fog, Hiroshima Mon Amo...

[LFF Review] Rosewater

Contrary to early, perhaps reactionary, accounts, Rosewater is not entirely devoid of comedy. Of course those who think of Jon Stewart as a comedian first, jour...

[LFF Review] The Salvation

Pulpy, violent, exploitative and trashy, The Salvation harkens back to the spaghetti Western era before the genre became introspective with the likes of Unforgi...

[LFF Review] Dearest

Beginning as a straightforward melodrama about an abducted child, Dearest, the new film from Peter Ho-Sun Chan, spirals off in several directions to the point w...

[LFF Review] Wild Tales

Zipping through its six unconnected stories, Wild Tales is a mix of Buñuel-ian absurdism and violent black comedy, subtly raising issues of sexual and national ...

[LFF Review] The Imitation Game

Alan Turing’s life comes tailor-made to fit the prestigious period drama mold that’s long been a staple of the British film and TV industries. For the most part...

Martin Jensen