Reviews

Dir: Dorothy Arzner | US Drama 63’ Interesting to compare this rather demure affair with the one pictured nearly a hundred years later in HOW TO HAVE SEX (2023). Far from being...

Dir/Wri: Molly Manning Walker | Cast: Mia McKenna-Bruce, Lara Peake, Enva Lewis, Samuel Bottomley, Shaun Thomas, Finlay Vane Last, Guy Lewis | UK Drama 91' What sounds like a cinematic instruction...

Dir: Andrew Haigh | Cast: Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Claire Foy, Jamie Bell | UK Drama 105' Andrew Haigh’s new film All of Us Strangers may well be this British director’s...

Dir: Adilkhan Yerzhanov | | Kazakhstan/Russia,102' A hyper violent civil war rages across an apocalyptic landscape where gender conventions prevail in classic Western style: the men are the killers. One traumatised...

Dir: Brigitte Sy | Cast: Damien Bonnard, Laetitia Casta, Beatrice Dalle | France, Drama 97' Another example of how good actors don’t make a decent film is this  limp effort to...

Dir: Matthew Vaughn | UK Thriller 139' Pirandello meets Philip K. Dick in this disarming piece of escapism that starts out seeming to be an ultra-glossy piece of escapist hokum but...

David Barnard | Musical Concert film 120' Who’d have thought a couple of English lads from Tyneside would make it to multi-millionaire status. Not only coining it, but also giving pleasure...

Dir: Ulaa Salim | Sci-Fi 99' Director Ulaa Salim returns to The Rotterdam Film Festival after his first feature Sons Of Denmark premiered there in 2019 to wide acclaim. His latest...

Dir: Rodrigo Areias | Cast: Albano Jeronimo, Edward Ashley, Victoria Guerra, Edgar Morais, Carmen Chaplin | Portugal, Drama 122' Charles Augustus Howell, the main character in this suggestive slow-burn drama from...