Reviews

Awarded with Sundance 2022’s Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Dramatic category, Sierra Leonean-American writer-director Nikyatu Jusu’s Nanny is a chilling account of Black immigrant mothers’ sociopolitical...

With Nashville’s iconic music industry still largely devoid of LGBTQ+ household names, it is easy to spend a lifetime listening to country western music without realising gay women are behind many words and...

Fervent piousness and vulgar materialism have never been interwoven so tightly as they did in the lives of the once biggest names in TV Christian evangelism, Tammy Faye Bakker (Jessica Chastain) and husband...

Daryn introduces his gym with a bright smile and positive spin on everything and everyone. He is proud of the fitness centre he inherited from his grandfather and bodybuilding father. Yes, his gym staff might...

If you’re going to be treated like a criminal, you might as well become a criminal. John Patton Ford’s indie thriller, Emily the Criminal, stars Aubrey Plaza as Emily, a woman drowning in student debt who...

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...