Reviews

A cursory google reveals that the real Nat Love (Jonathan Majors) and Rufus Buck (Idris Elba) were very different figures than those who make hyper-dramatic first impressions in Jeymes Samuel’s...

This film was previously reviewed in February 2020 as part of our Berlinale coverage. There often exists an inexplicable and intense bond between twins; My Little Sister (Schwesterlein) explores the limits...

A horror film that dedicates the first half of its runtime to guiding you through the texture of the expensive family mansion, The Feast is primarily concerned with how cold and restricting modernity feels....

This film was previously reviewed as part of our coverage for Berlinale 2020. Daycare assistant Anne has fallen, literally, in love. In the opening moments of Canadian director Kazik Radwanski’s sublime...

The college coming-of-age story is such a tried-and-tested subgenre that it’s impressive when someone offers a new take. Freshman Year, the debut feature from writer, director and lead, Cooper Raiff, shows...

The story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is steeped in ambiguity - we don’t even know the name of its original author - and countless writers have attempted to make sense of it over the years (including...

The Many Saints Of Newark will be judged in the same way The Godfather Part III was: a robustly made, averagely enjoyable gangster flick which is choked by the masterpiece standing behind it. Fourteen years...

Some might say Oasis performing to 250,000 people across a weekend in the summer of ‘96 was the definitive musical moment of the decade. Oasis: Knebworth 1996 makes it hard to disagree. At the heart of the...

This film was previously reviewed in February 2021 as part of our Sundance Film Festival coverage. Sion Sono’s Prisoners of the Ghostland stars Nicolas Cage as Hero, an infamous bank robber who is sprung...

This film was previously reviewed in February 2021 as part of our Glasgow Film Festival coverage. Working-class boy falls in love with high-bred girl, a premise as old as time. In A Brixton Tale, they are...

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...

Upon hearing the word ‘malignant’, you somehow imagine James Wan (the brains behind incredibly successful horror franchises Insidious, The Conjuring and Annabelle) would offer a more supernatural...

Land of Dreams, Shirin Neshat and Shoja Azari’s eccentric political satire set in a dust-ridden United States where censuses collect dream data, is a profoundly American film – and a profoundly Iranian...

Antoine Fuqua’s explosive new film should come with a health warning, such is its intense physiological impact. Joining the ranks of Steven Knight’s Locke in its depiction of psychological duress and...

There are sure to be countless Covid films tackling the biggest global disruption of our lifetimes, and The Falls takes an interesting approach, relegating this cataclysm to a sub-plot. We begin in Taipei,...