Reviews

Dir: Guillaume Nicloux | France Thriller 111’ Guillaume Nicloux’s A Private Affair (Une affaire privée) is a stylishly jagged French film noir, with the director giving the familiar private-eye genre a...

Dir Alex Gibney | Doc 2026 Reviewed by Ian Long “You were lucky,” one of Salman Rushdie’s doctors told the slashed and punctured author shortly after the violent attack on him at...

Dir: Avelina Prat | Drama 2025 Avelina Prat’s charmingly old-fashioned film about getting lost, starting again — and borrowing someone else’s life There is something rather lovely about The Portuguese House. In...

Dir: Alejandro González Iñárritu | Biopic drama 2026 Tom Cruise goes gloriously off-piste in this apocalyptic black comedy. After spending the last decade throwing himself off mountains, out of aeroplanes and...

Dir: David Kittredge | UK/US documentary 2026 Boorman and the Devil: John Boorman’s wild ride from Point Blank to Exorcist II There are few film directors whose careers have been quite as...

Director: Vincent Perez |Cast: Brendan Gleeson, Emma Thompson, Daniel Brühl, Mikael Persbrandt |Germany|France| UK Brendan Gleeson and Emma Thompson make this rather plodding wartime drama watchable. They play the unhappy married...

Dir: Milkel Gurrea | Drama 2026 Spanish cinema has come on in leaps and bounds recently and this thriller from Mikel Gurrea is another strong contender, starring Vittoria Luenga who we...

Dir: Georgia Oakley | Drama 2026 132’ Sense and Sensibility — An Also-Ran Austen Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility has been filmed several times, but the new version directed by Georgia Oakley...

Dir: James Dawson | Doc 2026 Derek vs Derek: a very English battle of the farmyard There are few things more entertaining than putting two farmers from Devon called Derek together and...