Reviews

Dir: Gianni Amelio | Italy Drama 2026 Gianni Amelio’s Painless follows Davide, a thirty-something second-hand bookseller in Rome, living a small, self-contained life among other people’s books. His routine is upended...

STOCKHOLM AFTER DARK: SWEDISH NOIR Before Scandinavian crime became a global obsession, Sweden was already doing darkness rather beautifully. STOCKHOLM AFTER DARK: SWEDISH NOIR brings together five rarely seen Swedish crime, mystery...

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...