Author Sophie Maxwell

In the small city of McAllen, Texas, a human rights battle is waged in close quarters. On the Divide follows Denisse, Rey, and Mercedes, three people whose lives have been touched deeply by the politics of...

Premiering at London's Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2022 is Anna Konik's self-described 'art documentary', Silence Heard Loud. Konik's film gives voice to seven people living in the UK as asylum seekers....

María and Ingvar (Noomi Rapace and Hilmir Snær Guðnason) are an Icelandic couple living on a remote farm in the mountains. Under the midnight sun, the pair discover a strange lamb in their sheep barn, which...

When twelve-year-old Dylan’s loving single father works a late shift, he leaves his mute son alone for the night in their new apartment. Upon finding a dusty old book that claims to grant your heart’s...

This film was previously reviewed in October 2020 as part of our London Film Festival coverage. With much of the world experiencing some degree of political and social unrest, it would seem a pertinent time...

The 8th is titled after Ireland’s Eighth Amendment to the constitution, that in 1983 gave equal right to life to both a pregnant woman and the vaguely termed ‘unborn’. This documentary follows a group of...

This film was previously reviewed in June 2020 as part of Sheffield Doc/Fest. Lisa Rovner explores women’s work in electronic music in her feature documentary debut Sisters With Transistors. The film is...

Set during Hitler’s rise to power in the 1930s, The Banishing follows Marianne and her daughter Adelaide as they move into her clergyman husband’s spooky new parish. British director Christopher Smith here...

Godzilla vs. Kong is the latest instalment in Legendary's MonsterVerse. Peace between the Titans is disturbed when Godzilla suddenly attacks an Apex Cybernetics facility in Florida. Concerned about Godzilla,...

Shook follows social media influencer Mia, who becomes the pawn in a terrifying online campaign of manipulation and tests while babysitting her sister’s dog. Mia (Daisye Tutor) sacrifices a night...

This film was previously reviewed in October 2020 as part of our London Film Festival coverage. In Brandon Cronenberg's Possessor, Tasya Vos (Andrea Riseborough) is an assassin who enters her targets’...

In the opening minutes of Zanka Contact, a smart and funny sex worker named Rajae tells a dark joke about a car crash to her taxi driver. Moments later, she is in a dramatic crash herself. Larsen, a faded rock...

In 2001, director Ken Fero released Injustice, a documentary examining the killings of Black people in police custody in the UK. Ten years in the making, Ultraviolence is Fero’s emphatic and essential...

In Garrett Bradley’s documentary Time, Sibil "Fox" Richardson is working to have her husband Robert released from prison. She believes his sentence—60 years for armed bank robbery—is oppressively and...

In British horror The Unfamiliar, Army doctor Izzy (Jemima West) returns from war bearing battle scars. Her home and family seem not quite right, with spooky events beginning within minutes. The film’s...