Ian Burfield

Though self-consciously structured as if a fairy tale or fable, Clio Barnard’s follow-up to the docudrama The Arbor continues the tradition of Britain’s kitchen sink socio-realism. Both devastating and compassionate, The Selfish Giant is a profound film on friendship and the class system.

Based on the true story of a Polish prisoner at Auschwitz who became a midwife, trying to protect babies and mothers from sadistic Dr. Josef Mengele.

Five aging criminals come together to mastermind one of the most audacious robberies in British history: the Hatton Garden safe deposit heist.