Reviews

“We kill people so we don’t have to get boring jobs.” It’s as simple as that: unassuming teenagers Mahiro and Chisato are employed to bump people off. Skilled in hand-to-hand combat and with firearms,...

In 2016, 40 years after London’s punk scene took off, John Corré burned £5 million worth of memorabilia - largely from the collections of his parents Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren, who owned the...

Close to the lonely loch, Loch Treig, lives Ken Smith, a hermit of almost forty years and a keen documenter, having kept meticulous diaries and taken thousands of photos. Director Lizzie MacKenzie struck up a...

A young rapper teaches teens in a rough part of town how to express themselves through rhyme and verse in Morocco’s Oscar submission. Anas’s students are made up of young people playing fictionalised...

Elie Grappe’s sports and politics drama, set against the 2013-2014 Maidan Uprising, skilfully captures societal unrest through the eyes of a youngster with ambitions she tries - and fails - to separate from...

The story is timeless even if the specifics are new. A young man, entitled, the world at his feet, has his eyes on investment banking supremacy. However, in his hubris he makes a crucial error and is banished...

With Turning Red, Pixar continues its recent trend of allowing diverse voices within the studio to tell new (and clearly very personal) stories. Directed by Domee Shi, who also made the delightful short Bao,...

Executive produced by Darren Aronofsky, Wladyka’s drama begins in stress and hopelessness and then drives this terrifying mood to the maximum. Kaylee (Kali Reis) is a former boxer whose sister vanished...

This film was previously reviewed in October 2021 as part of our LFF coverage. Time and time again, across history and across societies, homophobia and its violence has always been upheld by the law. In...

Fans of Claire Denis’ Let the Sunshine In will find familiar ground in her latest feature. She reunites with Juliette Binoche for another tale of a woman’s search for that elusive romantic spark, but this...

In the age of blockbusters, a microbudget debut is always an exciting prospect. Lanarkshire filmmaker Paul Morris’ first feature is set among an abandoned housing estate, overrun by gangs in camo and black...

Rosy lies awake in bed watching a roleplay video. It’s of a woman acting motherly, pretending to put her to bed. Rosy is 25-years-old and ‘aged out’ of the foster system without being adopted, and she...

Fans of young women running in films, this one is for you. Like other roles bringing this sprinting trope to the fore, Anaïs in Love follows an impulsive spirit who darts between people and places without a...

Justin Kurzel’s explorations of masculinity in crisis continue with a drama loosely based on the events leading to the Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania, Australia - notably on the behaviour of its...

Food and the female body are a potent recipe for horror, and this recipe is taken to a supernatural extreme in Ruth Paxton’s domestic horror. After the horrifying (accidental?) death of the family patriarch...