Reviews

This dark tale starts with shots of beautiful countryside contrasted with haunting music that’s laced with echoing screams, indicative of what’s to come. Something awful has happened in What Josiah Saw,...

Cinema’s love affairs with seemingly endless, carefree summers is given a rude awakening in Emilie Aussel's short drama. As a bunch of French teenagers gather to celebrate the end of exams and the start of...

There are faint echoes of Hans Christian Andersen’s classic tale The Snow Queen in Natalya Kudryashova’s second feature, but this modern Russian fairytale finds its nature magic up against dreary...

“I’m coming for all of them.” Neil Maskell takes on the character of Bull, a once feared enforcer, in Paul Andrew Williams’ newest revenge-thriller of the same name. After being absent for ten years,...

This film was previously reviewed in February 2020 as part of our Berlinale coverage. With today’s headlines, there could be a strong film made from the historical investigation, aided by an American...

This film was previously reviewed in January 2021 as part of our Sundance Film Festival coverage. From writer-director Siân Heder comes CODA, an impactful story that focuses on 17-year-old Ruby Rossi...

By trade, a documentarian deals in records. Aleksandr Rastorguev was no exception. A prolific documentary filmmaker known for works critical of Russia’s political regime and business interests, he was found...

It has been almost a decade since Benh Zeitlin released Beasts of the Southern Wild to rapturous acclaim and his long-awaited follow-up comes – at first – as something of a surprise. His directorial debut...

Many people fantasise about living a life more in tune with nature, but imagining what that might look is more difficult. Daniusa and Basia live such an existence in rural Poland. Bucolic (Bukolika) is a...

Riley (Kit Zauhar) struggles as she approaches graduation. A final paper earns a failing grade, landing her in a remedial summer course to get her full diploma. Meanwhile, she goes heart over head in pursuit...

From the Planet of the Humans (Dal pianeta degli umani) defies easy categorisation. It is a dreamlike documentary, fictionalising a border checkpoint at Ventimiglia where migrants often make perilous crossings...

On the surface, Hleb Papous’ film bears many similarities to 2020’s vaunted Les Miserables. The Legionnaire (Il Legionario) is similarly concerned with tensions between immigrant communities and the...

Teenage years are often remembered for their extreme physical, emotional, and societal changes, and cinema has long immortalised these transformations to tell stories of discovery and danger. In Araceli...

Stojan might be stuck in a dead end job as Serbia adjusts to a post-Soviet economy. His daughter might not have the newest, coolest shoes, and the refugee crisis is on everyone’s lips. But he is happy,...

Matthew Gray Gubler teams up with director Richard Bates Jr. for the fourth time in Bates’ newest witchy comedy, King Knight. Decorated with tattoos, Gubler plays Thorn, the High Priest of a modern day...