Author Anna McKibbin

This film was previously reviewed in October 2021 as part of London Film Festival. The glinting silver off the Titanic Quarters, the sweeping green of Cave Hill, the bouncing yellow of the Harland &...

As Nelly (Joséphine Sanz) sleeps securely in her mother’s arms, a bright circle of light skittishly bounces across the door, its glow illuminating the murky shape of a key. Nelly and Marion (Gabrielle Sanz)...

Dedicated to trapping the audience in the inexhaustible cycle of anxiety, the aptly titled All My Friends Hate Me allows terror and comedy to unspool simultaneously, both leaving the audience at a distance and...

A horror film that dedicates the first half of its runtime to guiding you through the texture of the expensive family mansion, The Feast is primarily concerned with how cold and restricting modernity feels....

This film was previously reviewed in October 2020 as part of our London Film Festival coverage. Phyllida Lloyd’s Herself is a heartfelt tear-jerker that manages to reckon with the violence of a system...

Moulin Rouge! is based on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, kind of. It’s also based on the opera La Bohème, but again, only kind of. It’s been compared to the opera La Traviata, the novel Nana, and the...

Early in Dinner in America, Simon (Kyle Gallner) has dinner with a Midwestern family before setting their lawn alight. Everything about those first 20 minutes suggest that this is a movie intent on exposing...

A Quiet Place Part II doesn’t pick up where the last one left off. Instead, the first ten minutes are spent remembering the first day of the deadly invasion which drives the plot of both films. Excited...

An eerie tale of sisterhood haunted by the sound of chanting and complete with shots of burning stakes - Coven of Sisters is tasked with retelling a familiar story. Pablo Agüero’s film is a battle of...

This film was previously reviewed in October 2020 as part of our London Film Festival coverage. In one of the first scenes of Notturno we see a distraught mother mourning her lost son. She is stood wailing...

Vivian, the protagonist of Amy Poehler’s Moxie, starts the film timid, quietly submitting to the high school superlative of “most obedient”, and by the end of the film she is clad in a leather jacket...

Towards the end of Wonder Woman 1984, Diana Prince (Gal Gadot) desperately shouts “why are you doing this?” at the villain cackling maniacally down at her. It feels twistedly cathartic to hear this as an...

In an early scene of Hillbilly Elegy, our protagonist, J.D. Vance, is at a catered three-course meal desperately trying to differentiate between the silverware positioned before him. It’s a familiar...

Revisiting films from Disney’s Golden Age can feel like slipping into a pair of well-worn pyjamas. Cosy, soft and, crucially, familiar. Familiarity is the currency Disney exchanges to win over audiences....

Striding Into the Wind is a light hearted, coming-of-age romp that captures the turbulence of one’s early 20’s through the highs and lows of owning a car. Kun is an indecisive, final year film student,...