Reviews

This film was previously reviewed in February 2021 as part of our Sundance Film Festival coverage. “You don’t think there’s a cage that can work to our benefit?” ponders Abigail (Katherine...

This film was previously reviewed in February 2021 as part of our Glasgow Film Festival coverage. Coincidences are thoroughly dissected in Riders of Justice, a thriller that puts to the test all the...

Mia Hansen-Løve’s newest film, Bergman Island, stars Vicky Krieps and Tim Roth as filmmakers Chris and Tony who have retreated to the island of Fårö for the summer. They travel to the island, known for...

The most visceral aspect of Are You Lonesome Tonight? is its mesmeric use of colour and light. The screen is frequently flooded with bright reds and greens, or entirely washed out under an overbearing...

Catherine Corsini’s The Divide (La Fracture) stars Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and Marina Foïs as Raf and Julie, two women on the verge of a breakup, stuck in a hospital on the night of a major demonstration of...

Julia Ducournau, French director of the bloody 2016 masterpiece, Raw, graces Cannes Film Festival once more with her newest film, Titane. It turns out to be even more shocking and fearless than her debut,...

Depicting the complex fabric of society is never an easy task. In his latest film Returning to Reims, filmmaker Jean-Gabriel Périot attempts to coalesce over 80 years of history to tell the story of...

Tearing through its meagre 77-minute runtime, Deerskin wastes no time on plot set-up. It becomes quickly apparent that the storyline simply consists of: man buys deerskin jacket, man believes deerskin jacket...

Adapted from the novel of the same name by Rosa Liksom comes Juho Kuosmanen’s Compartment No. 6 (Hytti nro 6), a film that takes place mostly within the confines of a Russian train. Young Finnish student...

One of Cannes Film Festival’s most anticipated films, Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, is a love letter to journalists that consists of a collection of short stories in the final issue of a magazine...

Based on the non-fiction book Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy by Judith C. Brown is Paul Verhoeven’s newest erotic, blasphemous, and extremely camp film, Benedetta. In...

A film that’s told in twelve parts, as well as a prologue and an epilogue, Joachim Trier’s The Worst Person in the World (Verdens verste menneske), fits a lot into its two-hour runtime, yet never overstays...

Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s Lingui tells the story of Amina (Achouackh Abakar Souleymane), a practising Muslim in Chad, and her 15-year-old daughter, Maria (Rihane Khalil Alio). When Amina learns that her...

Jake (Colin Farrell), Kyra (Jodie Turner-Smith), and their youngest, Mika (Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja), make up a family that exists in the future, a family completed only by Yang (Justin H. Min), an android...

This film was previously reviewed in October 2020 as part of our Nightstream Film Festival coverage. The surrealism within Zoé Wittock’s Jumbo is apparent from the very first scene, opening with blinding...