Eleanor the Great review – has all the personality of a New York tourism board advert
June Squibb plays a spirited nonagenarian who moves back to New York from Florida in Scarlett Johansson's underwhelming directorial debut. Wh…
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Ella McCay review – comfort food reheated, with a synthetic aftertaste
James L Brooks’ sweet, steady slice of political idealism entertains in the moment but rarely dares to surprise. It’s been 15 years since filmmak…
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Animalia review – sci-fi in the most elusive manner
Sofia Alaoui's feature debut explores coming-of-age through gender, class and spirituality against the backdrop of an alien invasion. Itto (O…
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Cover-Up review – a film worthy of Seymour Hersh
Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus’ searing chronicle of global atrocities as uncovered by dogged investigative reporting veteran, Sy Hersh. When in…
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Dreamers review – presents the hell of seeking asylum
This highly personal debut feature by Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor captures the inhumanity of an asylum process that’s cut through with small glimmers of…
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Jafar Panahi: ‘We shouldn't look at cinema too idealistically’
The great Iranian auteur and winner of the 2025 Palme d’Or on his thrilling new morality play, It Was Just an Accident. Jafar Panahi has had to n…
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It Was Just An Accident review – straightforward yet powerful, gripping and generous
Jafar Panahi's Palme d'Or-winner is a finely calibrated thriller exploring the high price of revenge on a potentially evil man. You’d be …
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Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery review – speaks to believers, cynics, and those in between
Rian Johnson's sharp and witty Knives Out threequel is powered by a standout lead turn from Josh O'Connor. It’s never easy to deliver a s…
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Female friendship and rebellion: Nana at 20
Twenty years ago, two wildly different women with the same name got on a train to Tokyo and changed the lives of teen girls everywhere. Starring…
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Pillion review – a refreshingly sexy and touching erotic drama
A meek young traffic warden embarks on a sexual odyssey with a taciturn biker in Harry Lighton's loose adaptation of Adam Mars-Jones' Box …
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Blue Moon review – one spry night of a fallen musical genius
Richard Linklater casts Ethan Hawke as drunken wit Lorenz Hart and charts the beginning of the end of his epic downfall. In 2025, the writer/…
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Zodiac Killer Project review – all filler, all killer
Film essayist Charlie Shackleton takes dead-aim at the true crime industrial complex in this cheeky documentary about a dream project that wasn’t …
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Sisu: Road To Revenge review – a Suomi western
Jorma Tommila reprises his role as "the man who refuses to die" in this vengeance-fuelled sequel to 2022 sleeper hit, Sisu. It is that …
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The Carpenter’s Son review – FKA Twigs’ Mary is more wooden than anything in the carpentry workshop
Lofty Nathan takes inspiration from the apocrypha for this dull religious horror focused on the trials of a moody teenage Jesus. In the beginning…
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Wicked: For Good review – Chu is as much a fraud as his Wizard
Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo shine together, but Jon M Chu's second instalment of the Broadway adaptation is otherwise a bloated, unimagina…
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Fiume o morte! review – a lively and creative history lesson
Filmmaker Igor Bezinović restages a little-known early 21st century coup in this entertaining hybrid work that connects community and landscape. …
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The Ice Tower review – a fairy tale frÃo-noir that will give you chills
Lucile Hadžihalilović's mesmerising riff on the famous Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale is a true triumph of imagination. Like her short La…
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The Enigmatic Versatility of Ethan Hawke
In praise of the ultra-versatile actor ahead of his stunning character turn in Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon Although you’d be forgiven for not r…
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