Reviews

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 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...

Interweaving body horror and psychological warfare, Dutch actor-turned-director Halina Reijn’s dramedy slasher Bodies Bodies Bodies stirred up the festival crowd at this month’s SXSW. The film’s...

This film was previously reviewed in July 2021 as part of our Cannes Film Festival coverage. A film that’s told in twelve parts, as well as a prologue and an epilogue, Joachim Trier’s The Worst Person...

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....

“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,...

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...

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...

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...

With Turning Red, Pixar continues its recent trend of allowing diverse voices within the studio to tell new (and clearly very personal) stories. Directed by Domee Shi, who also made the delightful short Bao,...

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...