Reviews

Emre Akay’s AV: The Hunt, set in present day Turkey, takes us on an intense journey of an unfaithful woman named Ayse (Billur Melis Koç), who is fighting for her life after she gets caught with her lover....

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...

It’s unfortunate for director Yemi Bamiro that his documentary One Man and His Shoes comes out in the same year as ESPN’s superb doc series The Last Dance. Both deal with Michael Jordan’s basketball...

If It Were Love is a hypnotic illustration of life, art and how the two fold into one another. The documentary follows 15 young dancers rehearsing and performing a movement piece. The performances is an ode to...

Lav Díaz is a master in finding beauty in the organic poetry of slowness. From the 625 minutes of 2006’s Evolution Of A Filipino Family to the mere 80 of 2011’s Elegy to the Visitor From the Revolution,...

It is hard to shake a sense of disgust while watching Industry, HBO’s series about young investment bankers vying for a permanent position at a top London firm. One of the few female candidates is sent...

What would you do if you had the opportunity to bring back the ones you loved and lost? Premiering at this year’s Nightstream Film Festival is Terence Krey’s emotional thriller, An Unquiet Grave, a film...

They say history repeats itself. For Matt Hulse, it's more like a replay - or five. Over and over again he assembles trios of kids from a Glasgow youth theatre group to represent his younger self, his sister...

When we think of capitalism we think of suited bankers and Western businessmen; if our thoughts stray to less economically developed countries, it is only as the victims of capitalism, whether that’s from...

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...

“Alex is the love of my life… we belong together.” What appears to be a sweet and earnest declaration of love from Samuel, the subject of Peter Murimi’s vital documentary, swiftly becomes a defiant...

Two newlyweds arrive in their shiny hotel suite, exhausted but ecstatic, surrounded by gifts and luxury. Eleanor (Avigail Harari) discovers a hidden wedding gift in her husband Noam’s (Ran Danker) pocket and...

Crime doesn’t pay. Or at least, it doesn’t pay well. Kajillionaire’s con artists are a far cry from ripping off a Vegas bank; a good day’s haul to the Dynes is a gift certificate and a big rock....

Early on in Chaitanaye Tamhane’s The Disciple, someone declares that Indian classical music is “an eternal quest.” Our protagonist, Sharad (Aditya Modak), is on this quest, both wrestling with and...

With Mangrove, there’s a sense that writer-director Steve McQueen is searching for a new way to tell stories about the injustices inflicted on Black people. Where his previous films, particularly Hunger and...