One Battle After Another
Leonardo DiCaprio and Sean Penn shine as two opposing ends of a political spectrum in Paul Thomas Anderson's enjoyably comedic tale of escapism - now on all major VoD platforms [Read More...]

Generation Well
Substance abuse and addiction, grief, and trauma distort reality, in Jack Serra's powerful short film - from the LA Shorts International Film Festival [Read More...]

Her Will Be Done (Que ma Volonté Soit Faite)
Witch fable from France traces an alienated adolescent woman’s embrace of her mother’s legacy amid parochial patriarchy - from MOTELX, in Lisbon [Read More...]

Buzzheart
Denis Iliadis’s game-playing domestic tragicomedy starts with a happy ending, before testing a young couple’s love with questions of what comes after - from MOTELX, in Lisbon [Read More...]

Karmadonna
In Aleksandar Radivojević’s rambunctious Serbian theological satire, a reluctant heroine must violently rebalance the world order for her baby’s advent - From MOTELX, in Portugal [Read More...]

The Old Woman with the Knife
Min Kyu-dong’s vigilante action thriller sees an ageing assassin struggling to determine how she wants to go out - from MOTELX, in Portugal [Read More...]

Missing Child Videotape
Ryota Konda’s unsettling J-horror feature debut sends three characters in search of a lost boy and a building on no map - from MOTELX, in Portugal [Read More...]

The Pianist (A Pianista)
In Nuno Bernardo’s medley of domestic melodrama, cloning sci-fi and psychothriller, a departed patriarch returns to the scene of the crime - from the 19th edition of MotelX, in Portugal [Read More...]

The Piano Accident (L’accident de Piano)
Quentin Dupieux’s absurdist portrait of an artist interrogates the unhinged drives and motives of an online celebrity - from MotelX, in Portugal [Read More...]

Roqia
Yanis Koussim creates an eerie, uncomfortable atmosphere within an Algeria that has seen more than its fair share of horrors - from the 5th Red Sea International Film Festival [Read More...]

Silent Friend
The human, the botanical and dreamy collide in Ildikó Enyedi's exquisite new film, about three generations of people in Germany and one single tree - from the 69th BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Dog 51 (Chien 51)
French sci-fi with astronomic budget and top-drawer cast infuses a dystopian Paris with Marxist and Orwellian ideas - from the 82nd Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

Boorman and the Devil
Documentary sensationally claims that Exorcist II: the Heretic nearly destroyed the life of director John Boorman, but the arguments are only partly founded - from the 82nd Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

Bravo Bene! (Un Film Fatto Per Bene)
Franco Maresco's metatextual tribute to filmmaking is unabashedly silly and chaotic, and barely intelligible to non-Italians - from the 82nd Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

Sermon to the Void (Boşluğa Xütbə)
In a world flavoured with highly saturated colours, one man carriers on with his silent, personal and meditative journey - from the 82nd Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

The Sun Rises on Us All (Ri Gua Zhong Tian)
Multiple tragedies shape the life of a young woman and those around her, in this inherently sad and pessimistic Chinese drama - from the Official Competition of the 82nd Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t (Come ti Muovi, Sbagli)
Gianni Di Gregorio directs and stars in a very cozy and compelling family drama, weaving three generations of a family into one Italian apartment - from the 82nd Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

Back Home (Hui Jia)
Tsai Ming-liang combines minimalism, non-narrative and slow cinema in his "hand-sculpted" new creation, about a man returning to rural Laos - from the 82nd Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

Elisa
Barbara Ronchi starts as a sororicidal patient in a psychiatric institution of Switzerland facing off against a doting criminologist - from the Official Competition of the 82nd Venice Film Festival [Read More...]

Girl
Chinese actress-turned-director Shu Qi crafts a very familiar tale of coming-of-age marred by domestic abuse - from the 5th Red Sea International Film Festival [Read More...]

Kabul, Between Prayers
Three Afghan brothers devote their lives to the Taliban's interpretation of the Quran, in this intimate doc about the casualness of indoctrination - from the 29th Tallinn Black Nights [Read More...]

The Voice of Hind Rajab
Five-year-old girl trapped inside car with six dead relatives begs for help over the telephone, in Kaouther Ben Hania's horrifyingly real register of the Gaza Genocide - in cinemas on Friday, January 16th [Read More...]

Who is Still Alive? (Qui vit ancore?)
Swiss director meets with nine Gaza survivors in South Africa, as they recall their tragic stories in conventional talking heads style - from the 82nd Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

Dead Man’s Wire
The spectacularisation of violence becomes a weapon for social change, in Gus Van Sant’s deliciously cathartic real-life drama - from the Tallinn Black Nights [Read More...]

The Stranger (L’étranger)
François Ozon's screen adaptation of Albert Camus's meditation on indifference is as quiet and dark as its protagonist - from the 69th BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

A House of Dynamite
The US is under nuclear attack, in Kathryn Bigelow's clumsily assembled and extremely toxic apologia of "preemptive defence" - now on Netflix [Read More...]

Inside Amir
Iranian man preparing for migration refuses to let go of his bicycle, in a meditative drama with echoes of Neorealism and Kiarostami - from the 82nd Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

Silent Rebellion (À Bras-le-Corps)
Timid teen has to grapple with multiple types of female oppression, in this quiet coming-of-age tale from Switzerland - from the 82nd Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

Made in EU
Covid puts personal and national allegiances to the test, in this very profound and robust Bulgarian piece of social realism - from the 82nd Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]

Kim Novak’s Vertigo
Ninety-two-year-old star takes viewers on an emotional journey of her turbulent life, and shares the dirty secrets of [Read More...]

The Wizard of the Kremlin (Le Mage du Kremlin)
Quiet spin doctor helps Putin to strengthen his grip on power, in Olivier Assayas's star-studded and lifeless political thriller - from the 5th Red Sea International Fil;m Festival [Read More...]

Landmarks (Nuestra Tierra)
"Erased" indigenous community faces an uphill struggle for justice after self-appointed "landowners" murder one of their leaders - Lucrecia Martel showcases her activist doc in various festivals [Read More...]

Frankenstein
Repulsive, mumbling creature morphs into a virile and eloquent wonder, in Guillermo del Toro’s extremely ambitious adaptation of Mary Shelley’s gothic masterpiece - in cinemas on Friday, October 17th [Read More...]

Below the Clouds (Sotto le Nuvole)
A black cloud hangs over the head of those living near the Vesuvius, while time conveys both healing and destruction - Gianfranco Rosi's quiet and observational doc shows at the Tallinn Black Nights [Read More...]

Rose of Nevada
Boats, men and their imagination get terribly lost at sea, in Mark Jenkin's inventive fisherman's tale - from the 5th Red Sea International Film Festival [Read More...]

Calle Malaga
A magnetic Carmen Maura plays a Spanish grandma based in Tangier and determined to keep the house where she spent most of her life - Maryam Touzani's charming ode to independence at old age shows at the BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

At Work (À Pied d’Oeuvre)
Writer struggles to find work and inspiration, in this listless French drama about artistic authenticity and the gig economy - in the Official Competition of the 82nd Venice Film Festival [Read More...]

Jay Kelly
George Clooney stars as a movie actor who can only play himself, in this metatextual tribute to the American superstar - unimaginative Hollywood drama is in cinemas on Friday, November 14th [Read More...]

Ghost Elephants
Werner Herzog presents his latest nature documentary in Venice, where he receives a Lifetime Achievement Award; sadly, his new creation is uneventful and inconclusive, with a meandering storyline [Read More...]

La Grazia
Sorrentino's study of physical, moral and political decay uses the moribund presidential office of Italy as its subject (the outcome, however, is barely political) - from REC Tarragona [Read More...]

Light Up
Five Black LGBTQ+ Atlantans celebrate their path to finding their authentic selves in this tender documentary - currently showing in various film festivals [Read More...]

Yugo Florida
A man's life goes from stasis to quick collapse, in a shining debut feature boasting measured direction and gripping performances - Serbian co-production premieres at the Sarajevo Film Festival [Read More...]

Phantoms of July (Sehnsucht in Sangerhausen)
Light-hearted, mystical and playful ghost story from Germany examines irrational desires and the quest for imagined autonomy - from the Sarajevo Film Festival [Read More...]

Irvine Welsh: Reality Is Not Enough
Scottish author Irvine Welsh cloaks himself in his characters, while letting out some very peculiar details about his surroundings - on all major VoD platforms on Monday, November 17th [Read More...]

DJ Ahmet
Rural tradition and TikTok sensibilities clash to explosive results, in this very clever and uplifting comedy from North Macedonia - from the Tallinn Black Nights [Read More...]

Brides
Deceptively simple road movie examines Islamophobia and the radicalisation of young women in Britain - in cinemas on Friday, September 26th [Read More...]

Christy
Social realist drama from Ireland about teenager finding his confidence as he meets his estranged prioritises hope over gloom - from the 78th Edinburgh Film Festival [Read More...]

Aaaaaaaah!
An ensemble of British actors discover their inner monkey in a film that shows how near humans are to their animal cousins - 10th anniversary screening at the BFI on August 20th [Read More...]

The Pavilion (Paviljon)
In an almost Orwellian statement, elderly patients overcome adversity and take the nursing home in their own hands - filthy genius, dark comedy opened the 31st Sarajevo Film Festival [Read More...]

Christy
Orphaned teen seeks to reconnect with his hesitant half-brother and cousins, in this thoughtful and heartwarming social realist drama from Ireland - on various VoD platforms on Monday, October 27th (also showing at the Tallinn Black Nights) [Read More...]