Reviews

Dir: Sara Ishaq | Drama 118' Premiering in competition at Critics’ Week during the Cannes Film Festival 2026, Sara Ishaq first feature arrives with a premise that feels both starkly political...

Dir: Valeska Grisebach | Germany Drama German filmmaker Valeska Grisebach returns to the Balkan borderlands she explored so memorably in Western with The Dreamed Adventure, a sprawling, moody crime odyssey set...

Dir: Lea Mysius | France 123’ 2026 Léa Mysius turns her talents to thriller mode with this disturbing thriller that intoxicates like a slow poison. The Birthday Party is one of...

Dirs: Javier Calvo - Javier Ambrossi | Spain Drama 155' La Bola Negra (Black Ball) is certainly a rambunctious spectacle detonating gay pride in the final days of this  year's Cannes...

Wri/Dir: Valerie Veatch | US Doc 110' I found this documentary bitty and unfathomable so I asked ChatGPT to write a critical appraisal - this is it: Ghost in the Machine...

Dir: Lukas Dhont | Belgium Drama 121' Lukas Dhont’s follow-up to his recent outings Girl and Close is a First World romance about two Belgian soldiers staging theatrical revues behind the...

Dir: Christophe Dimitri Reveille | France Doc What makes Che Guevara: The Last Companions (2026) successful is that it doesn’t try to re-tell the freedom fighter's story. Instead it approaches history...

Dir/Wri: Konstantina Kotzamani | Japan, Fantasy Drama 2026 Premiering in the Critics’ Week sidebar at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival,  Titanic Ocean is another film about teenage awakening, this time from...

Wri/Dir: Jorge Thielen Armand | Cast: Asia Argento | On a rain-lashed South American shoreline, a blood-soaked man is screaming “Mátalo!”.(kill him). Death Has No Master immediately sets the tone for...