And Still The Seed (Todavia La Semilla)
Puerto Rican doc celebrates the bond between trees and people, while also peeling off the toxic layers of colonialism - from the Atlanta Film Festival [Read More...]

Serpent’s Path (Hebi No Michi)
Kiyoshi Kurosawa remakes his own child abduction and organ trafficking revenge thriller, this time on French soil... and he remains determined to tortured viewers - from IndieLisboa [Read More...]

When Fall is Coming – aka When Autumn Falls (Quand Vient l’Automne)
Francois Ozon's tale of failed grandmotherhood moves and engages, despite a few clunky twists and turns - on various VoD platforms on Monday, July 21st [Read More...]

Lumiere! The Adventure Continues (Lumiere! L’Aventure Continue)
The director of Cannes steps into the shoes of the "realisateur" and raises the human gaze to a previously unconceivable level - from the 4th Red Sea International Film Festival [Read More...]

The End
Joshua Oppenheimer's first incursion into the world of fiction is a pointless and pretentious post-apocalyptical potboiler - at Tiff Romania/ on Apple TV [Read More...]

Glimmers (Los Destellos)
Kindness and compassion prevail in Pilar Palomaro's brutally honest portrayal of terminal disease - from the 24th REC Tarragona International Film Festival [Read More...]

Gülizar
Turkish bride-to-be travels to Kosovo in order to meet her future husband, only to find out that she has little ownership over her body and her decisions - from the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

I Am Nevenka (Soy Nevenka)
The first successful prosecution of a Spanish politician for harassment becomes a poignant drama, boasting strong performances and credible developments - from the 68th BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Conclave
Ralph Fiennes stars as a dignified dean charged with moderating the papal conclave from hell - on VoD on Monday, December 30th [Read More...]

Emmanuelle
Ultra-processed, insipid and indigestive: the umpteenth remake of the 1974 erotic classic tastes like the cheapest fast-food meal ever - Audrey Diwan's new creation is in cinemas on Friday, January 17th [Read More...]

Dirty Laundry
Two inseparable best friends dream of setting up a business together, until a mysterious woman casts a spell and the unvarnished truth spills out... from the Heartland Film Festival [Read More...]

Carissa
Jason Jacobs and Devon Delmar’s debut feature patiently introduces audiences to the delicate routine of rural South Africans - from the Orizzonti section of the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

Lee
Kate Winslet stars as iconic war photographer Lee Miller, in this insightful yet dispirited biopic of a woman partly erased from history - in cinemas on Friday, September 13th [Read More...]

American Daydream
Chinese-American doctor has to grapple with her passion for acting and her undocumented mother, in this non-judgmental take on the American Dream - from the HollyShorts Film Festival [Read More...]

Light Up
Five characters give their impressions of life as queer people of colour, in a world divided by religion and righteousness - from the Bronzelens Film Festival [Read More...]

Boomerang
Family differences and serendipities punctuate this "modern" portrait of Iran - artist-turned-filmmaker showcases his debut feature in the Venice Days strand of the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

Youth (Homecoming)
Wang Bing's final entry in the trilogy of Chinese workers in the shortest instalment, at a "mere" 153 minutes of observational cinema - from IndieLisboa [Read More...]

To Kill a Mongolian Horse
Herdsman becomes a hesitant horseback performer for Chinese tourists, in this exquisite arthouse drama from Inner Mongolia - from the 4th Red Sea International Film Festival [Read More...]

Manas
Amazon riverside girl is denied the right over her body - jarring child prostitution drama from Brazil wins Venice Days' top prize [Read More...]

On Falling
Portuguese warehouse picker in Scotland seeks to inject small doses of meaning and joy into her thankless existence - British social realist drama is on VoD on Monday, April 7th [Read More...]

Love (Kjærlighet)
Highly conversational Norwegian drama riffs on the tribulations of casual sex and cancer (it just doesn't show much!) - in cinemas Friday, August 15th [Read More...]

Sicilian Letters (Iddu)
Sicilian mafioso and cunning politician play cat and mouse, in this prolonged and prosaic psychological thriller - from the Official Competition of the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

One of Those Days When Hemme Dies (Hemme’nin Oldüğü Günlerden Biri)
Anger morphs into murderous thoughts, in this quiet and slow character study from Turkey - from the Orizzonti section of the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

Stranger Eyes
Two desperate parents scramble to find their missing baby girl, on a quest aided by surveillance technology - from the 68th BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Broken Rage
Takeshi Kitano's completely bonkers slapstick crime thriller from hell gets moody festival audiences lolling - from the the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

April
Spectacular piece of slow cinema from Georgia dissects the female body with raw fervour - on VoD on Monday, July 28th. [Read More...]

I Don’t Care if the World Collapses
Karim Shaaban's short film dramatises his experience directing a commercial to depict the Faustian deal we've made with capitalism - from the Cleveland International Film Festival [Read More...]

Diva Futura
Italian director sets out to celebrate pornography, but instead legitimises the old prejudices she aimed to denounce - from the 3rd Mediterrane Film Festival [Read More...]

Joker: Folie a Deux
Todd Phillips's sequel to his own 2019 movie is an elegant and profound blend of musical fantasy and courtroom drama, however inferior to its predecessor - in cinemas on Friday, October 4th [Read More...]

Vermiglio
Sicilian soldier stirs the relative peace of a large Italian family, in this beautiful yet soporific drama set on the mountains of Northern Italy - from Karlovy Vary/ also on VoD [Read More...]

The Quiet Son (Jouer avec le Feu)
A widowed father of two sons despairs as his eldest mingles with fascists, in this effective social realist drama set in France - from the the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

Songs of a Slow Burning Earth
Ukrainian filmmaker reflects on the normalisation of war, in a documentary dotted with haunting snippets of everyday life - from the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

Harvest
Farming villagers of Scotland grapple with meddling outsiders, in Athina Rachel Tsangari's rich new drama - from various festivals/ on VoD on Friday, August 8th [Read More...]

Queer
Luca Guadagnino's adaptation of William Burroughs's early short novel (starring a drug-addicted, randy Daniel Craig) is an anodyne blend of strawberry fantasy and vanilla erotica - from Tiff Romania/ also available on VoD [Read More...]

2073
Asif Kapadia's blend of documentary and sci-fi is a disappointing mess, undecided about its priorities - in cinemas on New Year's Day; on VoD on Tuesday, January 7th [Read More...]

Planet B (Planete B)
Aude Léa Rapin's sci-fi offers a grim representation of a dystopian French state that has emerged into a high-surveillance, low-tolerance society - from the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

Finally (Finalement)
A lawyer suffering from a bizarre neurological condition embarks on a road trip, but is his journey real or imaginary? French drama premieres in the 81st edition of the Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

The Room Next Door
Almodovar's first feature film in English is an amusing and enlightening meditation on cancer and suicide, and a lot less melodramatic than his Spanish movies - Golden Lion winner is on all major VoD platforms on Monday, January 20th [Read More...]

The Serena Variations
The mind of an autistic violinist unravels as she is coaxed into taking drugs and pitted against her contemporaries - from Raindance [Read More...]

Wolfs
George Clooney and Brad Pitt trade barbs and snide comments, in this entertaining comedy thriller - from the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

I’m Still Here (Ainda Estou Aqui)
BEST INTERNATIONAL PICTURE OSCAR WINNER: In a career-defining performance, Fernanda Torres (with a helping hand from her mum) establishes Walter Salles's latest film as the ultimate Brazilian dictatorship drama - on VoD on Monday, April 21st [Read More...]

An Urban Allegory (Allegorie Citadine)
Italian filmmaker and French street artist join forces in order to create an exuberant short film blending urban textures and techniques - from the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

The Order
Jew-hating supremacist is the focus of this trivial American bang-bang with disingenuous political undertones - from the Official Competition of the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

Battlefield (Campo di Battaglia)
WW1 drama about self-harmers and the Spanish flu is so clumsily staged that it's barely watchable - from the Official Competition of the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

And Their Children After Them (Leurs Enfants Apres Eux)
Feuding teens see their paths collide more than once, in this very long and (mostly) accomplished French drama - from Tallinn [Read More...]

Trois Amies
The vicissitudes of love unite, excite and haunt three female friends, in this simple and effective, Truffaut-esque drama- from the Official Competition of the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

Vittoria
Mother of three boys is hellbent on having a daughter, in this profound real-life drama from Italy - showing at the BFI in March, as part of Cinecittà [Read More...]

Babygirl
Nicole Kidman gets on all fours and drinks milk from a saucer, in Hollywood's latest, extremely lame attempt to normalise subversive female pleasures - in cinemas Friday, January 10th [Read More...]

One to One: John & Yoko
John Lennon and Yoko Ono become American conveyors of change during the early 1970s, in this superbly assembled documentary - on BFI Player on Monday, July 14th [Read More...]

Sudan, Remember Us
Fly-on-the-wall documentary captures the pro-democracy-fervour in post-revolution Sudan, as well as the violence and the delusion that quickly ensued - on VoD on Monday, January 19th [Read More...]