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Nouvelle Vague (2025) Henry K. Miller I can’t guarantee that everything in the film happened exactly as depicted, but while this is not an irrelevant consideration, the film excels in showing the contingent nature of filmmaking and of this film in particular.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
State of Statelessness (2024) Chris Shields Using four stories from around the world, these Tibetan filmmakers weave carefully chosen details throughout narratives of absence and death to create a work that is philosophically and, at times, spiritually profound.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
North (1994) Lizzie Francke The problem is that North never achieves the scathing satire to which it aspires.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
The American President (1995) John Wrathall Screen couples who are unapologetically middle-aged, intelligent and highly articulate are a rarity in Hollywood these days, and Annette Bening and Michael Douglas respond to the challenge admirably.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
Saipan (2025) Philip Concannon At the end of the day, this is the rare sports film that has no winners.
Posted Jan 20, 2026  Edit critic review
The Magnificent Seven (1960) Penelope Houston ...this tough-sentimental eulogy to the gunfighter establishes itself as a likable enough Western on its own traditional terms.
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions (2025) Abiba Coulibaly For 113 minutes Joseph's BLKNWS transforms that space, crafting a portal to epistemological provocation and creative chaos of the best kind.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
A Few Good Men (1992) Kim Newman ...A Few Good Men seems a transparent rewrite of The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, with Jack Nicholson as a Captain Queeg whose crime is the brand of unofficial initiative-taking usually seen as a positive trait in films about the military.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
Hamnet (2025) Nicolas Rapold Part of what Zhao achieves is the sense that it has all arisen organically, and that Agnes and her fellow groundlings are indeed recognising themselves in the drama for the first time.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024) Kim Newman This spectacle fully embraces the toddler-tantrum-on-a-colossal-scale aesthetic and is winning because of rather than despite its essential goofiness.
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Io Capitano (2023) Jason Anderson The film is also rescued from its more precious and sentimental excesses by the power and complexity of Sarr’s central performance.
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Yannick (2023) John Bleasdale Quentin Dupieux’s latest film is a touch more conventional than his usual absurdist offerings, but maintains a sharp, funny meta-commentary on the divisions between audience and artist.
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Civil War (2024) Henry K. Miller Four photojournalists and writers go to extreme lengths to cover the violent atrocities of a North American civil war in Alex Garland’s thrilling examination of Hollywood violence.
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
The Teachers' Lounge (2023) Catherine Wheatley There’s the suggestion that the corruption is systemic – the conspiracy goes right to the top – but the film is so busy skewering everything that it becomes unfocused, baggy.
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
If Only I Could Hibernate (2023) Tom Charity Its schematics may be obvious, but Zoljargal Purevdash’s debut about a gifted teenager living in the impoverished yurt district of Mongolia’s capital shows great ambition and promise.
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
The Book of Clarence (2023) Arjun Sajip As The Book of Clarence builds to its denouement, the theme of faith – not treated with the rigour it deserves – drowns out Samuel’s sharper commentary, and the film’s vaulting genre-blending ambitions collapse into mess
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
All You Need Is Death (2023) Roger Luckhurst All You Need Is Death tends to stay in placeless urban settings and abandoned institutional buildings in anonymous edgelands. It is all the better for ringing the changes on those tropes.
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Sometimes I Think About Dying (2023) David Katz Sometimes I Think About Dying is arguably slight, and never beckons too many difficult questions of its subject matter, yet it deftly handles something sensitive, and true: a hard-won argument for living.
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Last Summer (2023) Ela Bittencourt The genius of Breillat’s storytelling and visual concept, with cinematography that bathes Anne in benign light, lies in the fact that her morality is impossible to pin down.
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara (2023) John Bleasdale Bellocchio’s talent is to be able to combine the incisive recreation of a historical moment with an operatic style, as cameras swoop and plunge through corridors and palazzi.
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Stephen (2023) Sophia Satchell Baeza Great social work does not always a good film make.
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Fantastic Machine (2023) Jordan Cronk Complex subjects beg for more considered insights than what’s offered here.
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
There's Still Tomorrow (2023) Kate Stables Through its dark satire of 1940s subjugation, it also smartly spotlights the enduring issue of Italian domestic violence.
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
That They May Face the Rising Sun (2023) Philip Concannon Pat Collins approaches John McGahern’s final novel about a couple’s return to rural Ireland with the attentive eye of a documentarian, encouraging viewers to adjust to a slower pace of life along with the film’s protagonists.
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Challengers (2024) Beatrice Loayza Luca Guadagnino takes some big swings in this witty, frenetic three-hander starring Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist, where the sexual tension plays out on and off the tennis court.
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Omen (2023) Ben Nicholson Omen blends complicated relationships, complex societal issues and spiky political allusions with verve and swagger.
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
The Fall Guy (2024) Jonathan Romney They all bring characterful flesh-and- blood mischief to what could otherwise have been a calculated mirror game of reality and illusion.
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger (2024) Nick Bradshaw Martin Scorsese narrates this heartfelt documentary celebrating the work of The Archers, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, while recounting their influence on his directorial choices.
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024) Kim Newman An inspired reworking, and Durand’s delighted reading of the role of grandiose star turned villain invests this paradoxical epic – in the end, it’s a small story with planetary significance literally as an aside – with humour and horror in equal measure.
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Tiger Stripes (2023) Simran Hans Amanda Nell Eu's inventive debut about a young girl's 'monstrous' transformation belongs to a proud lineage of both Malaysian folklore and coming-of-age films that externalize the onset of female puberty.
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Hoard  (2023) Kate Stables Even when spinning its wheels, this audacious, unsettling film is powerfully driven by Lightfoot Leon’s mesmerising turn.
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Bird (2024) Ela Bittencourt Newcomer Nykiya Adams triumphs as Bailey, commingling edginess, tenderness, and introspection; so do Barry Keoghan, whose Bug is as big-hearted and droll as he is hapless, and Rogowski, who delivers Bird’s stoic poise with a wispy softness.
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg (2023) Katie McCabe Inspired by her unpublished memoir, this documentary exploring the wild life of 1960s actress Anita Pallenberg provides welcome insight on her career as well as her influence on the Rolling Stones.
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) Beatrice Loayza Even with an original like George Miller at the wheel, this fuelled-up franchise is losing steam.
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Kinds of Kindness (2024) Ela Bittencourt Lanthimos follows up Poor Things (2023) with some far darker social experiments in this chilling portmanteau featuring brilliant, shapeshifting performances.
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Caught by the Tides (2024) Giovanni Marchini Camia It’s a powerful and moving finale, even if it is familiar.
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Grand Tour (2024) Giovanni Marchini Camia Miguel Gomes elegantly bridges 100 years of film history with an experimental, time-bending colonial-era story of a British civil servant trying to outrun his persistent fiancée.
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
The Substance (2024) Kelli Weston If Fargeat ​hopes to condemn any institution or social framework, we, too, are denied the pleasure of seeing women as anything more than what they represent for those forces.
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
The Surfer (2024) Lou Thomas Finnegan’s film is a more visually arresting one than Frank Perry’s, occasionally bordering on the psychedelic, but as strong portrayals of a lonely man pushed over the edge by his demons, the two are of a piece.
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 (2024) John Bleasdale Almost every cliché of the genre is lovingly excavated for the first chapter in Kevin Costner’s epic four-part western, but its traditional approach is part of its charm.
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
All We Imagine as Light (2024) Arjun Sajip Payal Kapadia presents an inventive drama about three nurses navigating life in Mumbai that takes a poetic approach to expressing painful truths.
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
The Shrouds (2024) Nicolas Rapold It isn’t necessarily about the horrors of the decaying body, but of the horror of its no longer being there – which means that above all, Cronenberg has made a love story.
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Handsworth Songs (1986) Pam Cook Handsworth Songs exhorts us to seek out the ghosts of other stories behind the stories of the riots. Perhaps this would be a good place to begin the exhumation.
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Megalopolis (2024) Jessica Kiang A bloated mess of philosophising and incomplete plotlines, made with such sincerity it becomes fascinatingly lovable.
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Lula (2024) Ela Bittencourt Centred on Oliver Stone’s extensive interview with Brazil’s charismatic left-wing President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, this engaging documentary exploration of the politician’s dramatic career feels a little too safe.
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
The Apprentice (2024) Beatrice Loayza A mildly amusing, profoundly forgettable saga about the rise of Donald Trump.
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
In Flames (2023) Kim Newman Pervasive patriarchal threat tips into paranormal activity in the life of a young Pakistani medical student, resulting in a slightly predictable tale of haunting rooted in dark family secrets.
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024) Nicolas Rapold His film deserves to be regarded on its own terms, as an eloquent record of and warning to a regime clinging to power at the expense of freedom.
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Gasoline Rainbow (2023) Jason Anderson There’s something magical about the warmth, love and generosity the five express to one another, and radiate outward toward the others they encounter – and the film’s audience.
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
Riddle Of Fire (2023) Adam Nayman Weston Razooli's retro-styled debut is a patchy but sincere tween adventure film following a group of kids on a surreal mission to procure a blueberry pie in exchange for the password of their parents’ smart TV.
Posted Dec 31, 2025  Edit critic review
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