Author Scott Wilson

True to A Human Position’s slow nature, this Norwegian film reveals itself days after taking root. The stillness of its cinematography - the camera never moves - reflects the sleepy seaside town of Ålesund,...

This is not the Italy of Pixar’s Luca or Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name. Packed concrete apartments are separated by narrow streets in Naples’ Spanish Quarters, where young people are trapped in...

The Solé family’s orchard has passed down from father to father for generations, but now, it is in danger of destruction at the hands of solar panel developers. The family’s ownership of the land exists...

Eva Green leans into scream queen territory in Nocebo, as a woman living with the after-effects of a tragic phone call at her fashion designer workplace. Delusions and convulsions are Christine’s new normal,...

While a smart work of autofiction, Husband might be too clever for its own good. Professor Devorah Baum and her spouse Josh Appignanesi are in New York. She has a book to promote, he’s there to care for...

William, buried under fabrics and hidden away in a room insulated from electromagnetic waves, knows people think he is exaggerating. He suffers from electrosensitivity, a controversial condition in which...

“We kill people so we don’t have to get boring jobs.” It’s as simple as that: unassuming teenagers Mahiro and Chisato are employed to bump people off. Skilled in hand-to-hand combat and with firearms,...

Close to the lonely loch, Loch Treig, lives Ken Smith, a hermit of almost forty years and a keen documenter, having kept meticulous diaries and taken thousands of photos. Director Lizzie MacKenzie struck up a...

A young rapper teaches teens in a rough part of town how to express themselves through rhyme and verse in Morocco’s Oscar submission. Anas’s students are made up of young people playing fictionalised...

Rosy lies awake in bed watching a roleplay video. It’s of a woman acting motherly, pretending to put her to bed. Rosy is 25-years-old and ‘aged out’ of the foster system without being adopted, and she...

Fans of young women running in films, this one is for you. Like other roles bringing this sprinting trope to the fore, Anaïs in Love follows an impulsive spirit who darts between people and places without a...

This film was previously reviewed in August 2021 as part of our EIFF coverage. "We’re trying to help you". That’s what Bunny King keeps getting told, while she tries to win back her kids after they are...

Best Picture. Best Director. Best Actress. Winning over 100 awards in total, Nomadland’s success at the Oscars may have seemed, ultimately, inevitable, but there was still a surge of warranted joy when...

In a conversation with musician David Byrne, director Mike Mills said it’s his natural urge to make every film feel like the chorus of a song. Choruses are often the zeniths of a song. A wondrous combination...

Almost fifty years since The Velvet Underground went their separate ways, their legacy only grows. Now understood as pivotal in pushing the boundaries of music at the time, Todd Haynes’ documentary tells the...