Reviews

Dir: Emilija Škarnulytė | Doc 71’ Sounds of the Desert: a journey into Sun Ra’s cosmic imagination Jazz has rarely travelled quite so far from its earthly origins as in the universe...

  Directors: Adam Nielsen, Eva Mulvad, Andreas Koefoed | Denmark | 95’ Few documentaries promise to get quite so uncomfortably under the skin as Father’s House, an audacious piece of hybrid filmmaking...

Dir: Roger Corman | US Thriller 1962 The Intruder: Roger Corman’s incendiary portrait of American prejudice There is a particular audacity to Roger Corman’s The Intruder, a film made in 1962 that...

Oscar-winning Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Lelio, whose emotionally astute portraits of women and outsiders brought Chilean cinema to international prominence, has died aged 52. Born in Mendoza, Argentina, and raised in Chile,...

Dir: Eleanor Coppola | US Doc Twenty years after Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette divided opinion with its audacious pop-inflected take on the doomed French queen, Making Marie Antoinette arrives as a...

The 47th Cairo International Film Festival (11–20 November) is attracting an impressive international line-up for its 50th anniversary edition. Among the notable names expected in Cairo are Chinese actress Fan Bingbing,...

Dir: John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein | USA, 2026 | Apple TV+ Cold War paranoia meets buddy-movie farce in Mayday, an action comedy that pitches two very different screen personalities against...

Dir. Milcho Manchevski | North Macedonia As the wacky title suggests, there is something gloriously off-kilter about the world of Sister Brother Manhole Cover, Milcho Manchevski’s darkly comic, sharply observed drama...

V for Vendetta – the revolution still wears a mask James McTeigue | Cast: Hugo Weaving, Natalie Portman, Stephen Rea, Stephen Fry John Hurt | UK Political thriller There are films that...