Bridport Arts Centre
The first films of an exciting selection from Bridport Film Society 59th Season of 12 award winning films playing at the Arts Centre between now and April 2025.
American Fiction (2023)
Broad-brush American Fiction might be, but its approach to race and racism is oblique and unexpected, and it’s very funny about publishing’s literary ghetto.
The Guardian Peter Bradshaw
Daughters (2024)
The film, which focuses on a handful of girls and their dads as the dance looms, is as touching as it sounds — and invariably as sad. Los Angeles Times. Robert Abele.
Bridport Electric Palace
Beetlejuice Bettlejuice. (2024)
The zippy pacing, buoyant energy and steady stream of laugh-out-loud moments hint at the joy Burton appears to have found in revisiting this world. Hollywood Reporter. David Rooney.
Plaza Cinema Dorchester
Joker Folie a Deux ( 2024)
Phoenix’s performance remains powerful and stirring, too. Against the odds, this ingenious and deeply unsettling film even turns into a bit of a weepie by the final reel. The Independent. Geoffrey Macnab
Netflix
Woman of the Hour (2024)
A true-crime thriller that also operates as a damning commentary on societal misogyny—especially in Hollywood—it’s as chillingly sharp and canny as its deranged fiend. The Daily Beast. Nick Schager.
Amazon
Girls State (2024)
The film’s chief enjoyment is seeing how motivations transform, and character is forged, through the sliding doors of new people, victories and losses, and the sharpening of the young women’s disparate judgments on the genuinely disappointing differences between boys and girls state. The Guardian. Adrian Horton.
