Reviews

A sense of failure - moral, intellectual, physical - pervades Benediction, Terence Davies’ biopic of the World War I poet (and survivor) Siegfried Sassoon. The older Sassoon attempts solace through...

Directors Stephanie Allynne and Tig Notaro have brought to life the true story of friendship between producer Jessica Elbaum and writer Lauren Pomerantz in their debut feature, AM I OK?. Jane (Sonoya Mizuno)...

Christian Tafdrup’s first ever horror film, Speak No Evil, follows a Danish family who befriend a fellow travelling Dutch family while on holiday and are subsequently invited to the Netherlands for a weekend...

This film was previously reviewed in September 2021 as part of our Venice Film Festival coverage. Parallel Mothers is a twisting tale of two single mothers, Janis (Penélope Cruz) and Ana (Milena Smit),...

Riley Stearns’ Dual introduces us to a world that is, for all intents and purposes, just like ours, except for one major difference: a cloning service called Replacement. After being diagnosed with a rare...

Set in an isolated village in 19th-century Macedonia, writer-director Goran Stolevski's debut feature You Won’t Be Alone sees a young girl taken from her mother and transformed into a witch by an ancient...

Mimi Cave’s debut film FRESH shows the jaded Noa (Daisy Edgar-Jones) scrolling through an endless sea of faces on dating apps and sitting through a mind-numbing first date, but just when all hope seems lost,...

Chloe Okuno’s Watcher follows Julia (Maika Monroe) who joins her husband, Francis (Karl Glusman), when he relocates to his family’s native Romania for a new job. Unable to speak the language and stuck at...

Writer-director and star of Cha Cha Real Smooth, Cooper Raiff, plays Andrew, a recent college graduate who moves back home and begins working as a bar mitzvah party starter. He’s lost until befriending...

Writer-director Andrew Semans's Resurrection has Rebecca Hall as Margaret leading a successful and balanced life, but this carefully crafted homeostasis is disturbed when she sees an unwelcome presence from...

Narrated by the incredible Miranda July, Sara Dosa’s documentary Fire of Love is an ode to the daring French volcanologist couple, Katia and Maurice Krafft, who spent their lives chasing volcanic eruptions...

As Stanton Carlisle leaves an unidentified body and his family home going up in flames, Guillermo del Toro establishes that his latest noir is far from a straight adaptation of William Lindsay Gresham’s 1946...

Max Walker-Silverman’s debut feature, A Love Song, centres around two childhood sweethearts, Faye (Dale Dickey) and Lito (Wes Studi), who are both widowed and share a night reminiscing about their...

Sometimes it’s simply easier to avoid the question “are you happy?”, than to answer it with candour. The highly anticipated directorial debut by Jesse Eisenberg, When You Finish Saving the World, begins...

It is difficult to make a thriller about history, especially events as well-known as the talks between Chamberlain’s Britain and Hitler’s Germany. Munich: The Edge of War, adapted from Robert Harris’...