Film Review: The Innocent
★★★★☆ The long-suffering son of serial monogamist Sylvie (Anouk Grinberg), Abel (Louis Garrel) is immediately suspicious of her new (and third) husband, convict and ex-heist ...
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Film Review: Afire
★★★★☆ Two young friends, Leon (Thomas Schubert) and Felix (Langston Uibel), take a fateful working retreat in a forest cabin on Germany’s Baltic coast. German director ...
Film Review: Lie with Me
★★★★☆ Promoting his latest work, a successful writer returns to his hometown and the site of his first love. Olivier Peyon’s sixth feature is a bittersweet bildungsroman told ...
Film Review: A Song for Imogene
★★☆☆☆ Trapped in an unhappy relationship and a life going nowhere fast, Cheyenne’s (Kristi Ray) discovery that she is pregnant gives her the kick that she needs to leave her ...
Film Review: L’immensità
★★★★☆ After an eleven-year hiatus, Rome-born director Emanuele Crialese returned to the cinema last year with the Venice premiere of this family drama. Now arriving on UK ...
Film Review: Barbie
★★★★☆ Among the most popular and iconic toys in the world, since its 1959 inception the Barbie doll has delighted children while embodying unrealistic beauty standards for ...
Film Review: Move Me No Mountain
★★☆☆☆ Bereavement, mental health, the threadbare US social welfare system and homelessness are the heavy topics that British-born director Deborah Richards tackles in her ...
Film Review: Master Gardener
★★★☆☆ A man sits alone in a room with a notepad and begins to scribble down his own voiceover. He only writes on one page and seems to always be starting at the top. His ...
Film Review: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
★★★★☆ Sixteen months after the events of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and returned to their respective realities, our arachnoid avengers are still juggling ...
Film Review: Medusa Deluxe
★★★★☆ In the run-up to a regional hairdressing competition, the leading entrant is found mutilated. British director Thomas Hardiman’s debut film is a gripping, dizzyingly ...
Film Review: The Flash
★★☆☆☆ All good things, they say, must end. Unfortunately for the DC Extended Universe, so too must the messy, mediocre and baffling. A basically entertaining, but flimsy and ...
Film Review: The Wicker Man
★★★★★ Once again, it’s time for cinema audiences to keep their appointment with The Wicker Man following a recent 4K restoration. It’s an offbeat masterpiece that reveals the ...