Dir: Andrei Tarkovsky | Drama 1986 By the time Andrei Tarkovsky made The Sacrifice, he knew he was living on borrowed time. Exiled from the Soviet Union and gravely ill with...

Dir: Simon Mendes | US Doc 2026 For generations of Jews around the world, Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach's music has provided the soundtrack to prayer, celebration, grief and spiritual connection. A charismatic...

Dir: Rohan Parashuran Kanawade India, 2025 Reviewed by Peter Herbert Death in the family can bring people together as well as open up unspoken truths. Cactus Pears navigates this with gravity and grace...

Dir: Imran Perretta UK 2026 Reviewed by Peter Herbert Ish abbreviates the name of a boy in a film that looks with affection at what it feels like for a child entering...

Dir/co-Wri: Christopher Nolan | Historical actioner 172’ There are some epics that boldly reinvent mythology, and there are others that become entombed by it. Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey lands firmly in...

Dir: Antonin Baudry | France, Epic drama  2026 There are historical epics that strive for spectacle and those that seek to understand the forces that shape history. De Gaulle: J’écris ton...

Dir: Sean Dunn | Comedy, Ireland 2026 A faded museum, a forgotten hero and an unexpected invasion of fantasy fandom collide in The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford, an offbeat, bittersweet...

There was something wonderfully reassuring about Sam Neill, who has died aged 78. He could command the screen without dominating it, finding drama not through grandstanding but through intelligence, wit...

Dir: Aung Phyoe | Myanmar, Czech Republic, France, 2026 Factory sirens usually signal the start of another shift. In Aung Phyoe’s quietly devastating debut, they become the soundtrack to lives suspended...