Reviews

The 83rd Venice International Film Festival comes at a pivotal moment in world cinema. Hollywood is still navigating a period of contraction, as we experienced at this year's Cannes Film...

Dir: Luchino Visconti | Italy Drama Luchino Visconti’s Rocco e i suoi fratelli (Rocco and His Brothers, 1960) stands at the crossroads of Italian neorealism and grand operatic melodrama, a work...

Dir: Mitch Jenkins | UK Drama Prisoners of Paradise is a ravishingly beautiful colonial drama, blending history, forbidden love and social injustice in 1920s Mauritius. Directed by Mitch Jenkins, it adapts Romesh...

Dir: Jane Schoenbrun | US Drama 2026 Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma gleefully pitches itself somewhere between an eighties slasher, an awkward coming-of-age comedy and a knowing satire of horror...

Dir: Ian Findlay | UK 75’ 2025 A Dairy Story follows organic farmers David and Wilma Finlay as they pioneer a high-welfare, "cow-with-calf" dairy system in southwest Scotland. The documentary captures...

Dir: Lisa Immordino Vreeland | 90’ | US Playing out like a speed date with the most important artists of the 20th century, Vreeland’s documentary is packed with juicy secrets and...

Dir João Botelho | Portugal Drama 2025 João Botelho has spent more than four decades turning Portuguese literature into cinema, and As Meninas Exemplares feels like the latest chapter in that...

Dir: Karim Aïnouz | Drama 97’ Rosebush Pruning arrives wrapped in the promise of elegant provocation: an ensemble drama that dissects privilege, emotional inheritance and the brittle architecture of family life....

Dir: László Ranódy | Drama: Hungary Reviewed by Richard Chatten Set in rural Hungary in the 1890s, but essentially timeless, Be Good until Death is a haunting fable told from the point of view...