Johan Grimonprez's documentary explores the circumstances that led two American jazz musicians to crash the UN Security Council in protest against the murder of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba.

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15.11.2024

Trauma ripples through time at the London Film Festival

Jesse Eisenberg, Malcolm Washington and Christopher Andrews explored the diverging manifestations of generational trauma at this year's London Film Festival.

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15.11.2024

Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point review – a lo-fi holiday classic in the making

A large Italian-American family gather for the holidays in Tyler Taormina's freewheeling festive feature.

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14.11.2024

The transportive beauty of modern magical realism

In two of 2024's best films – Bird and On Becoming A Guinea Fowl – reality blurs with fantasy when the world becomes too cruel to stand.

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13.11.2024

When did theatre become so reliant on film?

With screen-to-stage adaptations popping up in the West End every week, what's caused the theatre world to rely so heavily on cinema for source material?

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12.11.2024

The engrossing '90s nonsense of Denzel Washington

One of the greatest actors of all time found a compelling niche starring in some of the decade's zaniest high-concept thrillers.

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12.11.2024

Greek Cinema Now: A Postcard from the Thessaloniki Film Festival - Little White Lies

While the likes of Yorgos Lanhimos and Athina Rachel Tsangari have gone travelling the world, what’s going down on the Greek home front?

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12.11.2024

Gladiator II review – are you not entertained?!

Paul Mescal picks up the mantel as the avenging angel of Rome in Ridley Scott's long-awaited but lacklustre sequel.

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09.11.2024

The Piano Lesson review – high-quality but low-impact work

Malcolm Washington makes his feature directorial debut with an ambitious adaptation of one of August Wilson’s most well-known plays.

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08.11.2024

Barry Keoghan: 'I have my own method; I’m still learning and discovering'

The role of charismatic chancer Bug in Andrea Arnold's Bird feels like a victory lap for Hollywood's most unlikely new darling.

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08.11.2024

Franz Rogowski: 'If you talk about birds, you always talk about ethereal energy'

The German star unlocks the process of deep immersion that led him to discovering his character in Andrea Arnold's Bird.

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08.11.2024

No Other Land review – a microcosm of Palestinian resistance

Calling for a free Palestine, this vital doc chronicles the resilience of the Masafer Yatta community and the occupation’s atrocities in the West Bank.

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05.11.2024

Paddington in Peru review – a very well-executed threequel

It’s three for three in the beloved bear franchise, as our marmalade-scoffing scamp heads off for an adventure in his South American homeland.

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04.11.2024

Andrea Arnold: 'I’m very interested in the sensual world'

One of Britain's foremost chroniclers of life in the economic margins opens up about the pressures of modern filmmaking and her desire to let audiences take what they want from her films.

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04.11.2024

Bird review – a magical, energetic marvel

Social and magical realism merge in Andrea Arnold’s scintillating Thames Estuary fable about the friendship between a latchkey kid and a smiling wanderer searching for home.

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03.11.2024

Missing Child Videotape – first-look review

Kondo Ryota's debut feature is a chilling ghost story that begins with a videotape – but that's where the similarities to Ringu end in this impressive new J-Horror.

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01.11.2024

Route 29 – first-look review

A standoffish young woman embarks on a road trip with an unusual 12-year-old girl in Yusuke Morii's offbeat sophomore feature.

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01.11.2024

Teki Cometh – first-look review

An elderly man plans the final year of his life in Daihachi Yoshida's impressive adaptation of Yasutaka Tsutsui's novel.

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01.11.2024

Inside the fight to make Audio Description a non-negotiable part of the film industry

A crucial tool for visually impaired cinema lovers yet often undervalued by the industry, it's about time that audio description's worth is heard.

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30.10.2024

Juror #2 review – one of Clint Eastwood’s finest late-era films

Clint Eastwood’s 40th film offers a morally complex riff on the tried-and-tested courtroom drama which culminates in a killer final shot.

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30.10.2024

Anora review – an amazing, hypermodern concept for a film

A young sex worker thinks she's hit the jackpot when she falls for a Russian nepo baby, but his parents have other plans in Sean Baker's anti-rom-com.

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30.10.2024

11 Rebels – first-look review

Kazuya Shiraishi polishes off a 60-year-old script for this bloodthirsty samurai epic about a band of criminals recruited to defend a castle from the emperor's army during the Boshin War.

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29.10.2024

Can watching porn in public change perceptions of sex work?

Erika Lust's C*m With Me tour celebrates 20 years of the filmmaker's work, but how can welcoming porn back into cinemas challenge audience attitudes?

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28.10.2024

'I watched the film crash and burn at the box office' – Jang Joon-hwan on Save The Green Planet!

The director of the cult classic Korean wave sci-fi comedy reflects on his wild debut two decades on, and the forthcoming remake from Yorgos Lanthimos.

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28.10.2024

Heretic review – Hugh Grant is a horror natural

Two Mormon missionaries get more than they bargained for when they drop in on Hugh Grant in Scott Beck and Bryan Woods' effective psychological horror.

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28.10.2024

In praise of Stan Brakhage's most disturbing film document

This Halloween, no body horror fiction can compare to the haunting revelations of Brakhage's 32-minute film The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes.

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25.10.2024

Mati Diop: 'We’re witnessing an awakening of consciousness'

The maker of the remarkable prizewinning docu-essay hybrid, Dahomey, on the film’s urgent anti-colonial message.

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25.10.2024

The Front Room review – a strangely scatalogical chamber piece

Theatre legend Kathryn Hunter camps it up as a sinister old biddy terrorising her daughter-in-law Brandy Norwood in the horror debut from Max and Sam Eggers.

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25.10.2024

Matt and Mara review – a sharp dramedy with magnetic leads

Two college friends reunite and reconsider the trajectory of their lives in Kazik Radwanski's keenly observed relationship comedy-drama.

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24.10.2024

Venom: The Last Dance review – air-headed escapism

Tom Hardy seems tired and confused in this comic book sci-fi sequel that hasn’t got an original bone in its alien symbiote body.

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23.10.2024

The Room Next Door review – something is missing

Pedro Almodóvar makes his English-language debut with an adaptation of Sigrid Nunez's What Are You Going Through, starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton as old friends who reunite in a time of crisis.

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23.10.2024

Dahomey review – a blueprint for anti-colonialist action

Mati Diop offers a creative and moving guide to discussing anti-colonialist action in her very fine follow-up to 2019’s Atlantics.

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23.10.2024

Emilia Pérez review – a musical that barely wants to be a musical

This ghastly musical melodrama from Jacques Audiard tells of a Mexican cartel boss’ gender affirming surgery.

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23.10.2024

Deciphering Don Hertzfeldt's ME

The latest short film from the independent animation legend is an elusive oddity even by Don Hertzfeldt's standards.

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21.10.2024

The Crime is Mine review – Huppert steals the show

François Ozon's first foray into crime comedy boasts bags of charm and a biting feminist edge.

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21.10.2024

Can a 100-year-old cinema survive without a venue?

Belfast's Strand cinema is a gorgeous relic from a bygone era – but as the picturehouse closes its doors for a much-needed renovation, the team have relocated to an old shopping centre.

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Layla review – Bilal Hasna shines

Witches review – leaves you wowed, wounded and educated

Wicked review – Grande and Eviro’s chemistry is unmatched

Tyler Taormina: 'The soundtrack is one of the germinating seeds of the work'

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat review – a sprawling geopolitical tapestry

Trauma ripples through time at the London Film Festival

Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point review – a lo-fi holiday classic in the making

The transportive beauty of modern magical realism

When did theatre become so reliant on film?

The engrossing '90s nonsense of Denzel Washington

Greek Cinema Now: A Postcard from the Thessaloniki Film Festival - Little White Lies

Gladiator II review – are you not entertained?!

The Piano Lesson review – high-quality but low-impact work

Barry Keoghan: 'I have my own method; I’m still learning and discovering'

Franz Rogowski: 'If you talk about birds, you always talk about ethereal energy'

No Other Land review – a microcosm of Palestinian resistance

Paddington in Peru review – a very well-executed threequel

Andrea Arnold: 'I’m very interested in the sensual world'

Bird review – a magical, energetic marvel

Missing Child Videotape – first-look review

Route 29 – first-look review

Teki Cometh – first-look review

Inside the fight to make Audio Description a non-negotiable part of the film industry

Juror #2 review – one of Clint Eastwood’s finest late-era films

Anora review – an amazing, hypermodern concept for a film

11 Rebels – first-look review

Can watching porn in public change perceptions of sex work?

'I watched the film crash and burn at the box office' – Jang Joon-hwan on Save The Green Planet!

Heretic review – Hugh Grant is a horror natural

In praise of Stan Brakhage's most disturbing film document

Mati Diop: 'We’re witnessing an awakening of consciousness'

The Front Room review – a strangely scatalogical chamber piece

Matt and Mara review – a sharp dramedy with magnetic leads

Venom: The Last Dance review – air-headed escapism

The Room Next Door review – something is missing

Dahomey review – a blueprint for anti-colonialist action

Emilia Pérez review – a musical that barely wants to be a musical

Deciphering Don Hertzfeldt's ME

The Crime is Mine review – Huppert steals the show

Can a 100-year-old cinema survive without a venue?

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