London Film Festival 2015: The 10 Films You Need To See

10. High-Rise

The Pitch: Ben Wheatley directs an adaptation of J.G. Ballard's novel about social divides in a luxury tower building, starring Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons and Sienna Miller. Why You Should Be Excited: It's Ben Wheatley. He's been one of the most exciting British filmmakers of the last decade, unrestrained by genre or convention, something the sci-fi not-sci-fi High-Rise only further attests. He's a proper marmite director (I'm going to restrain using the "you just don't get it" defence), but even those who hate Kill List can't deny he has some serious directorial talent. Also, everyone loves Hiddleston - a proper Brit thesp without the saturation of Cumberbatch. The Buzz? As you'd expect from a Wheatley film, the reviews from its premiere at the Toronto Film Festival have been mixed. Rather than suggesting a middling film, however, this merely points to the ruleless auteur making another complex daring film. Naturally, all of its public screenings at the festival have already sold out. But make sure you catch this when it hits the big screen next year. When's It Released? TBA 2016