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Shuddering footage extrapolated from a cellphone shows a group of black men sitting on a station floor. One is thrown down and a bang stings the air. Fruitvale Station begins with an ending. Michael B. Jordan...

Tim Sutton's Delphian portrayal of a blues musician's decaying spirituality takes on the seemingly mismatched guise of both documentary filmmaking, and hyper-literate, auratic cinema. The film follows the...

The One I Love is a crumpled-up love letter being tumble-dried inside one of the drums of The Twilight Zone. Charlie McDowell manages to crack open a window and pump a fresh breeze into a genre bloated with...

Drunktown’s Finest is Sydney Freeland’s directorial debut on a feature - and it shows. This film, which combines the increasingly interwoven stories of three young Native Americans, is never quite able to...

This film was previously reviewed in January 2022 as part of our Sundance Film Festival coverage. Max Walker-Silverman’s debut feature, A Love Song, centres around two childhood sweethearts, Faye (Dale...

This film was previously reviewed in February 2022 as part of our Sundance Film Festival coverage. Director Sophie Hyde and writer Katy Brand’s Sundance 2022 premiere Good Luck to You, Leo Grande is a...

This film was previously reviewed in February 2021 as part of our Sundance Film Festival coverage. When asked at the airport whether she was in Los Angeles for business or pleasure, Bella Cherry (Sofia...

This film was previously reviewed in January 2021 as part of our Sundance Film Festival coverage. In the aftermath of having their holiday home invaded, Jan (Mark Waschke), Nina (Sabrina Timoteo) and their...

This film was previously reviewed in October 2021 as part of our London Film Festival coverage. There may be rest now - Amin is an accomplished academic, living with his partner Kasper in Copenhagen,...

With an outpouring of festival and critics’ awards over the last 18 months, it seemed almost certain that Kelly Reichardt’s stunning First Cow would garner a handful of Academy Awards nominations in early...

This film was previously reviewed in January 2021 as part of our Sundance Festival coverage. Dash Shaw and Jane Samborski’s Cryptozoo takes viewers on a journey along with cryptozookeepers who set out to...

This film was previously reviewed in February 2021 as part of our Sundance Film Festival coverage. Sion Sono’s Prisoners of the Ghostland stars Nicolas Cage as Hero, an infamous bank robber who is sprung...

This film was previously reviewed in January 2021 as part of our Sundance Film Festival coverage. “Horror is already out there, in all of us” is the answer in Prano Bailey-Bond’s Censor, which...

This film was previously reviewed in January 2021 as part of our Sundance Film Festival coverage. From writer-director Siân Heder comes CODA, an impactful story that focuses on 17-year-old Ruby Rossi...

This film was previously reviewed in February 2021 as part of our Sundance Film Festival coverage. “You don’t think there’s a cage that can work to our benefit?” ponders Abigail (Katherine...