Reviews

Arriving at a Normandy chateau, Englishman Bernard (Gethin Anthony) seems lost and pensive. His partner is pregnant, and this is clearly no good thing. He exits his car and immediately finds himself...

What do you do if you can’t tell if you’re awake or still stuck in a dream? Michael Venus’ never-ending nightmare, Sleep (Schlaf), opens with Marlene (Sandra Hüller), a woman who suffers from horrible...

The tone of Lars Damoiseaux’s Yummy is set when it begins with a bus full of men looking out the window to stare at a woman’s breasts in the car beside them. This objectification of women carries on...

There's a sense of familiarity with Spinster, the tried-and-tested formula of idiosyncratic American indie comedy. A quirky, jaded chef, Gaby (Chelsea Peretti) has reached a crossroads, newly single after...

Netflix teen movies follow the same recipe: take a peppy teen star protagonist, comic relief, a love interest, break-up and make-up plot points, mix them together, pour into a high school, bake for 90 minutes...

A love triangle between a woman searching for "The One" and two men who are polar opposites may be something we’ve seen many times before, but a grounded, melancholic atmosphere and brilliantly vulnerable...

Summerland, from writer-director Jessica Swale, is a period drama that focuses on Alice (Gemma Arterton), a reclusive writer living on her own who spends her days researching, endlessly working away at her...

Caravan parks always make for a particularly bleak, particularly British setting. In Claire Oakley’s mysterious Make Up, the uniform white boxes stand starkly against the backdrop of grassy mounds and...

The Fight is a film of great baseline competence and only scant insight. As a document of four emblematic battles brought by the American Civil Liberties Union against the Trump administration—respectively...

“In my eyes, you’re more deserving than anyone else here”, says Kenny Simm to his friend and mentee Stevie Richardson, a soldier who lost his two legs and several fingers during an explosion while...

Following on from a film populated by weird, inconsistent montages and a manipulative, creepy male lead, audiences were probably not expecting a masterpiece from this second instalment of The Kissing Booth....

Woman-of-the-moment Beanie Feldstein helms this adaptation of Caitlin Moran’s wickedly funny book How to Build a Girl, sadly arriving in the UK with very little fanfare after a delayed release. Feldstein...

The implications of sex have never been the same for men as they are for women, and this hypocrisy is shown on full display in Josephine Mackerras’s Alice, shining a much needed light on the harsh...

In a roulette of life and death, we meet Andy, an immortal soldier spinning without purpose through her existence. Stalking through the streets of Morocco, she joins Booker, Joe and Nicky, her counterparts in...

Abbas Fahdel's documentaries often center around humanitarian crises and the immense human suffering that warfare causes, most notably with his epic two-parter Homeland that explored life in Iraq before and...