Reviews

Dir: Gianni Amelio | Italy Drama 2026 Gianni Amelio’s Painless begins with the quietest of lives and gradually turns it inside out. Davide, a thirty-something second-hand bookseller in Rome, played by...

Dir: Robert Greene | US 2026 Robert Greene’s Too Much Sugar follows Ryan “Holli-wood” Holliger, a charismatic Missouri father of six children by five different women, as he attempts to make...

Dir: Alina Marazzi | Italy/Germany | 118’ | Orizzonti, Venice 2026 Alina Marazzi’s The Girl with the Leica turns the final day of Gerda Taro’s life into a haunting meditation on...

Dir: Danny Boyle | UK Political satire 2026 — Venice Film Festival review: the birth of the tabloid beast There are films that tell us about history, and there are films that...

Dir/Wri: Bruno Dumont | France Drama 2026 Les Roches Rouges marks an intriguing departure for Bruno Dumont, a filmmaker hardly known for conventional comedy. Here, however, he turns his attention to...

Czechoslovak New Wave: Cinema on the Edge of Change Throughout September and October, in collaboration with The Garden Cinema, the 30th Made in Prague Festival celebrates one of the great explosions...

Dir: Ed Sayers | Doc 82’ Nature documentaries have long chased technical perfection, but Ed Sayers’ remarkable debut feature heads defiantly in the opposite direction. It asks “Do we look at...

Dir: Bérenger Thouin | Frànce, Drama 117’ L’Âge d’Or is an evocative and lyrical film that finds an inventive way to approach the experience of wartime through the meeting of archival...

BFI London Film Festival Announces 2026 Official Competition The 70th BFI London Film Festival has announced the ten films competing for its Best Film Award, with the winner to be revealed...