Reviews

Any film about filmmaking runs the risk of counterproductive nostalgia - from the earliest days of cinema, singing the chosen artform’s praises has not always resulted in the most effective, critical, or...

Life and motion bubble throughout Kiro Russo’s unflinching glimpse into the lives of La Paz’s most impoverished. Filmed on 16mm in the city’s poorest neighbourhoods and throughout recent upheaval in...

Chema García Ibarra’s film opens with a young girl reading off cards for a school presentation - all normal, until she declares that the unbaptised will have their organs stolen. She is revealed to be the...

Repeat after me: "Money! Money! MONEY!" Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness stars Harris Dickinson and Charlbi Dean as Carl and Yaya, a hot model couple who just can’t stop arguing about who should pay...

Cristian Mungiu’s R.M.N. stars Marin Grigore as Matthias, who returns to his multi-ethnic Transylvanian village after quitting his job. in Germany and reunites with his son, Rudi (Mark Blenyesi), and his old...

James Gray’s highly anticipated Armageddon Time is a coming-of-age memoir set in the 80’s based on Gray’s experience growing up in Queens, New York, as told through the life of Paul Graff (Banks Repeta)...

The turbulent marriage between Russia’s most famous composer, Pyotr Tchaikovsky (Odin Lund Biron), and his wife, Antonina Miliukova (Alyona Mikhailova), is the focus of Kirill Serebrennikov’s historical...

Michel Hazanavicius’ meta zombie flick Final Cut (Coupez!), a French-language remake of Shin'ichirō Ueda’s 2017 cult film, One Cut of the Dead, opens this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Set in a disused...

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....