Author Carmen Paddock

This film was previously reviewed in March 2021 as part of our Berlinale coverage. Alice Diop’s latest documentary captures life in the Paris suburbs, meandering between characters, vignettes, and...

Any film about filmmaking runs the risk of counterproductive nostalgia - from the earliest days of cinema, singing the chosen artform’s praises has not always resulted in the most effective, critical, or...

Life and motion bubble throughout Kiro Russo’s unflinching glimpse into the lives of La Paz’s most impoverished. Filmed on 16mm in the city’s poorest neighbourhoods and throughout recent upheaval in...

Chema García Ibarra’s film opens with a young girl reading off cards for a school presentation - all normal, until she declares that the unbaptised will have their organs stolen. She is revealed to be the...

The luthier’s craft can seem one from another age, the archaic title passed down despite evolving instruments and musical styles. In today’s music industry, Reuben Cox is one of the most respected makers...

Halfway through Zero Fucks Given, the tale of a budget airline flight attendant and her colleagues, the team are taken out for a coaching day. Here, they run emergency and first aid drills over and over,...

This film was previously reviewed in March 2022 as part of our Glasgow Film Festival coverage. Harry Wootliff’s sophomore feature is poised between erotic psychodrama and thoroughly British kitchen sink...

In 2016, 40 years after London’s punk scene took off, John Corré burned £5 million worth of memorabilia - largely from the collections of his parents Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren, who owned the...

Elie Grappe’s sports and politics drama, set against the 2013-2014 Maidan Uprising, skilfully captures societal unrest through the eyes of a youngster with ambitions she tries - and fails - to separate from...

The story is timeless even if the specifics are new. A young man, entitled, the world at his feet, has his eyes on investment banking supremacy. However, in his hubris he makes a crucial error and is banished...

Executive produced by Darren Aronofsky, Wladyka’s drama begins in stress and hopelessness and then drives this terrifying mood to the maximum. Kaylee (Kali Reis) is a former boxer whose sister vanished...

Fans of Claire Denis’ Let the Sunshine In will find familiar ground in her latest feature. She reunites with Juliette Binoche for another tale of a woman’s search for that elusive romantic spark, but this...

In the age of blockbusters, a microbudget debut is always an exciting prospect. Lanarkshire filmmaker Paul Morris’ first feature is set among an abandoned housing estate, overrun by gangs in camo and black...

Justin Kurzel’s explorations of masculinity in crisis continue with a drama loosely based on the events leading to the Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania, Australia - notably on the behaviour of its...

Food and the female body are a potent recipe for horror, and this recipe is taken to a supernatural extreme in Ruth Paxton’s domestic horror. After the horrifying (accidental?) death of the family patriarch...