Cannes Film Festival 2016

The BFG

2016 • Fantasy, Family, Adventure • 120 minutes • 19,603 ratings • 2,698 reviews

Directed by Steven Spielberg

Starring Rebecca Hall, Bill Hader, Mark Rylance, Ruby Barnhill and Marilyn Norry

The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by the Bloodbottler, or any of the other giants—rather than the BFG—she would have soon become breakfast. When Sophie hears that the giants are flush-bunking off to England to swollomp a few nice little chiddlers, she decides she must stop them once and for all. And the BFG is going to help her!

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  • ★★★★ review by Arielrocks5 on Letterboxd

    Steven Spielberg is the only director who could sandwich a movie that features a giant Mark Rylance farting so hard he flies up off the ground for a few seconds in between two best picture nominees.

  • ★★★★½ review by Martin28 on Letterboxd

    Utterly magical in the way only classic Spielberg could deliver.

  • ★★★★ review by A.J. on Letterboxd

    I is hearing all the secret whisperings of the world. 

    During the first hour of The BFG, I legitimately thought it might be the best movie of the year. 

    Then they went to the palace. 

    Either way, great Spielberg. 

    Good morning, BFG. 

  • ★★★★½ review by Serena Catalano on Letterboxd

    My heart is so big right now. Giant, actually.

  • ★★★★½ review by truman segal on Letterboxd

    Day 31 of Month of Spielberg I guess.

    I know I literally just said this in my Bridge of Spies review, but this is Spielberg's best since Minority Report. It's E.T. for a new generation, even if it doesn't nearly reach the emotional heights.



    Something that really surprised me is that it wasn't as sentimental as I thought it would be. Considering the source material, I was expecting way more schmaltz than three sequences of it.

    Mark Rylance is absolutely adorable as the BFG and should be in every Spielberg movie from now own.

    The castle scene is absolutely priceless, probably my favorite scene that Spielberg has ever directed.

    The CGI gets a bit wonky at times, and Sophie feels really out of place when she's surrounded by it, but it didn't really take me out of it.

    The ending falls a bit flat though.

    Maybe I'm biased because I LOVED this book as a kid, but I think The BFG is already misunderstood and much better than I was led on to believe.

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