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Creepy allegory of Soviet authoritarianism and political delusion is aesthetically and narratively compelling - live from the Official Selection of the 27th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

Vera and the Pleasure of Others (Vera y el Placer de los Otros)
Argentinian coming-of-age drama features sex scene after sex scene, with a bizarre twist of Jean-Luc Godard thrown in - from the First Feature Competition of the 27th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival [Read More...]

One Life
Anthony Hopkins stars as the "British Schindler", a London stockbroker who saved hundreds of Czechoslovakian children from almost certain death at WW2 - on VoD on Monday, April 15th [Read More...]

The Narrow Bridge
Four Israeli and Palestinian individuals who have lost their loved ones find the will to forge ahead without becoming intoxicated by hate, in this heartwarming documentary - from the UK Jewish Film Festival [Read More...]

Embers
In Christian Cooke’s therapeutic drama, a sexual surrogate helps an incarcerated, deeply disturbed man break out of himself in order to make parole - dirty gem of a British drama premieres at the 31st edition of Raindance [Read More...]

Foremost by Night (Sobre Todo de Noche)
Film programmer Víctor Iriarte's directorial debut is an intriguing revenge tale about stolen babies and sorority, and the near-perfect blend of noir and art cinema - from the 68th Valladolid International Cinema Week [Read More...]

Another Body
Vital documentary shares a personal account of being a victim of deepfake pornography - in cinemas on Friday, November 24th [Read More...]

Catching Dust
Two combustible marriages reach breaking point in the Texas desert – director Stuart Gatt’s feature debut premieres at the 31st Raindance Film Festival [Read More...]

All the Colours of the World Are Between Black and White
In this queer drama from Nigeria (!!!), two men try to quell the love they feel for each other, even at the expense of their personal happiness - from the 31st edition of Raindance [Read More...]

Blood for Dust
A traveling salesman slips into a life crime in order to provide for his wife, in this steady and authentic American indie - from the 31st edition of Raindance [Read More...]

La Singla
Documentary (with a few fictional elements thrown in) seeks to restore the legacy of deaf gypsy flamenco dancer Antonia Singla, a figure long lost from public sight - from the 31st Raindance Film Festival [Read More...]

Parachute
An empathetic and thoughtful story about eating disorders, and the toxicity of the comparative and self-critical gaze - Britanny Snow's directorial debut premieres at the 31st edition of Raindance [Read More...]

Warhol
Adam Ethan Crow’s real-time feature takes an ageing shock jock on a long dark night of the soul - British indie premieres at the 31st edition of the Raindance Film Festival [Read More...]

White Plastic Sky (Műanyag Ég-bolt)
Retiring at 50 takes on a new meaning in this Hungarian rotoscope animation set in a very bizarre future - from the 41st Turin Film Festival [Read More...]

Dusty & Stones
A couple of cowboys from Swaziland (now Eswatini) are just… living the dream – and yet, even in their dreams, this would have been hard to accomplish - from the 31st Raindance Film Festival [Read More...]

We are Guardians
The Amazon Rainforest becomes a battleground for the planet, in this thoughtful American-Brazilian doc about the true cost of deforestation - from the 31st Raindance Film Festival [Read More...]

Sex with Sue
Canadian "sexpert" who battled ignorance and prejudice with an arm full of sex toys fills the 31st Raindance Film Festival with unabashed lust and joy! [Read More...]

Satan Wants You
This almost unbelievable Canadian documentary tells a story of the the occults, satanism, manipulation, and especially deceit; an event so dramatic and unholy that it kicked off the “Satanic Panic" craze of the 1980s - from the 31st edition of Raindance [Read More...]

Miúcha, the Voice of Bossa Nova
Brazilian bossa nova singer had to fight to get her voice heard in an industry that pitted her against the many men she worked with - from the Doc'n' Roll Film Festival. [Read More...]

All of Us Strangers
Gentle queer romance descends into elaborate trip down memory lane, as British filmmaker Andrew Haigh blurs the lines between the physical, the imaginary and the supernatural - on VoD on Monday, April 8th [Read More...]

Ferrari
Michael Mann’s first feature film in nearly a decade is fascinated by the significance, both personal and historical, that name carries for its chief figures - in cinemas on Tuesday, December 26th [Read More...]

Killers of the Flower Moon
A returning WW1 veteran marries into Oklahoma’s Osage Indian tribe at the time of the Osage Indian Murders  - Martin Scorsese's filthy genius new drama premieres at the BFI London Film Fesstival; in cinemas on Friday, October 20th [Read More...]

Eureka
Viggo Mortensen is a Danish gunslinger in search of his daughter, in this pseudo-Western authored by one of Argentina's most modest yet striking filmmakers - from the 61st New York Film Festival [Read More...]

Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed
The complicated life and the dirty secrets of the heartthrob "wanted by both men and women" are the pillars of this sobering documentary - on Digital on Monday, October 23rd [Read More...]

Coup de Chance
Woody Allen’s first French-language feature is a morality tale about writers, adultery, murder and, of course, chance; while not a masterpiece, his 50th (and most likely last) film is a worthy addition to his extensive filmography [Read More...]

Still Working 9 to 5
Star-studded American doc about the barriers that women still have to overcome at the workplace has a sobering message: the struggle for Equal Rights that began in the 1970s is far from over - from the Doc'n Roll Film Festival [Read More...]

Apolonia, Apolonia
Danish documentarist portrays the iridescent life of French figurative painter Apolonia Sokol - from the 67th edition of the BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

Hit Man
Professor supplements his income by providing technical support for the New Orleans Police Department's Murder-for-Hire outfit, in Richard Linklater's partially successful Neo-noir - from the 61st New York International Film Festival and also the BFI London Film Festival (and soon on Netflix) [Read More...]

The Blue Star (La Estrella Azul)
Unconventional portrait of long-forgotten Spanish musician Mauricio Aznar takes viewers on a transcontinental journey of self-discovery (between Spain and Argentina) - from the 71st San Sebastian International Film Festival.  [Read More...]

Poor Things
Yorgos Lanthimos repackages history with an exquisite singularity as well as a faux-provocative attitude, fearful of pushing audiences to look beyond their own bodies - Golden Lion winner is in cinemas on Friday, January 12th [Read More...]

Toll (Pedágio)
Road toll worker slips into a life of crime in order to pay for her son's gay conversion therapy, in this spectacularly dirty Brazilian piece of absurd realism - from Latin Horizons section of the 71st San Sebastian International Film Festival [Read More...]

Great Absence
A young man tries to make peace with the father who once abandoned him is now slowly succumbing to dementia - Japanese drama is in Competition at the 71st San Sebastian International Film Festival [Read More...]

Dance First
Gabriel Byrne stars as Irish writer Samuel Beckett, in this concise yet very conventional and contrived biopic of a literary genius - from the 41st Turin Film Festival and the 3rd Red Sea International Film Festival [Read More...]

Close your Eyes (Cerrar los Ojos)
Victor Erice returns to filmmaking after a three-decade hiatus, crafting a protracted, moody and profound reflection on memory, cinema and reconnection (with a twist) - showing at the BFI as part of a season devoted to the Spanish director; in cinemas (general release) on Friday, April 12th [Read More...]

The Royal Hotel
Two young backpackers take up jobs at a watering hole from hell in the Australian desert, frequented by lewd miners and shady characters of various sorts - female revenge thriller is in cinemas on Friday, November 3rd [Read More...]

The Red Island (L’Île Rouge)
French military families prepare to depart from Madagascar in the early 1970s, in this disjointed, irritating and misfiring tale of decolonisation (partially redeemed by the final 15 minutes) - from the BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

A Journey in Spring (Chun Xing)
A lone widower freezes his dead wife in the hope of keeping her company into eternity, in this Taiwanese piece of slow cinema (with a social twist) - in the Official Selection of the 71st San Sebastian International Film Festival [Read More...]

The Rye Horn (O Corno)
Maria has to juggle seafood harvesting, midwifery and illegal abortions, in this dark and sullen drama set during the 1970s in rural Galicia, Northwestern Spain - Golden Shell winner premieres at the 67th BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

The Beast (La Bête)
Bertrand Bonello's drama about two would-be lovers bearing the same name is intellectually rigorous as well as stylistically dazzling, and perhaps his most audacious work to date - from Rotterdam [Read More...]

Puan
Philosophy professor fights to preserve his position and his legacy, in Argentinean lighthearted comedy with distinct political flavours - from the Turin Film Festival [Read More...]

The Successor (Le Successeur)
The artistic director of a famous fashion house in Paris returns to Canada for his estranged father's funeral, only to uncover a dirty secret he could never fathom - bizarre yet strangely gripping crime drama premieres at the 71st San Sebastian International Film Festival [Read More...]

Un Amor
Isabel Coixet delivers a superb meditation on the contradictory sentiments of love, compassion, contempt and complicity, set in the rural, mountainous region of Rioja - from the 71st San Sebastian International Film Festival/ 31st Raindance Film Festival [Read More...]

Sultana’s Dream (El Sueño de la Sultana)
Young Spanish woman who no longer feels safe in her own country travels to India in search of a Utopian society ruled by women - animation premieres at the 71st San Sebastian International Film Festival [Read More...]

The Practice (La Práctica)
Yoga instructor has to juggle a divorce and a bizarre knee injury, in this hilarious deadpan comedy about unreliable memories, reconnections and, er, shattered mindfulness - Chilean film shows at the 41st Turin Film Festival [Read More...]

A Silence (Un Silence)
Belgian feature looks at a married couple, particularly a wife, and exposes the fragile nature of their relationship in shocking, scintillating detail - live from the 71st San Sebastian International Film Festival [Read More...]

Ex-Husbands (aka Men of Divorce)
Four men in the same family and of the three generations grapple with the trappings of heterosexual matrimony, this very lighthearted and conventional American romcom - from the 41st Turin Film Festival [Read More...]

All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
Deeply sensory piece of slow cinema explores the life of a Black American woman in the Deep South, as her legacy is carried across four generations - from the 67th BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]

MMXX
Cristi Puiu's new creation is a highly conversational, cryptic and esoteric examination of a Romania crippled by corruption, Covid and micro-aggressions of all sorts - live from the 71st San Sebastian International Film Festival [Read More...]

Socialist Realism (El Realismo Socialista)
Unfinished satirical drama about convulsing Chilean workers on the eve of the 1973 military coup gets a new lease of life 50 years later - from the 41st Turin Film Festival [Read More...]

Fingernails
Riz Ahmed and Jessie Buckley star in this excruciatingly painful romcom about two "love instructors" who measure romance by ripping out their clients' fingernails - in cinemas on Friday, November 3rd [Read More...]