Reviews

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...

Dir: Andrei Tarkovsky | Drama Tarkovsky’s Nostalghia is perhaps the most intimate of all his films—not because it reveals more of its maker than Mirror, but because it quietly transforms his...

Dir: Giuseppe Tornatore | Doc 2026 Like one of Brunello’s own meticulously realised creations, this absorbing documentary is built with patience, precision and an unwavering eye for beauty. Rather than assembling a...

Dir: Andrei Tarkovsky | Drama 1986 By the time Andrei Tarkovsky made The Sacrifice, he knew he was living on borrowed time. Exiled from the Soviet Union and gravely ill with...

Dir: Simon Mendes | US Doc 2026 For generations of Jews around the world, Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach's music has provided the soundtrack to prayer, celebration, grief and spiritual connection. A charismatic...

Dir: Rohan Parashuran Kanawade India, 2025 Reviewed by Peter Herbert Death in the family can bring people together as well as open up unspoken truths. Cactus Pears navigates this with gravity and grace...

Dir: Imran Perretta UK 2026 Reviewed by Peter Herbert Ish abbreviates the name of a boy in a film that looks with affection at what it feels like for a child entering...

Dir/co-Wri: Christopher Nolan | Historical actioner 172’ There are some epics that boldly reinvent mythology, and there are others that become entombed by it. Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey lands firmly in...

Dir: Antonin Baudry | France, Epic drama  2026 There are historical epics that strive for spectacle and those that seek to understand the forces that shape history. De Gaulle: J’écris ton...