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The Chronology of Water – first-look review

The transformative power of water lies at the heart of American writer Lidia Yuknavitch’s memoir, informed by her adolescent dreams

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La Petite Dernière – first-look review

For all its big themes, there is a vagueness to Hafsia Herzi’s anecdotal character study about a 17-year-old named Fatima

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Eddington – first-look review | Little White Lies

Up front: I am not the world’s biggest Ari Aster booster. You might even say I was a tad Ari-nostic

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Urchin – first-look review | Little White Lies

It’s easy to feel invisible in a city of 8.8 million people – even more so if you’re one of

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Miroirs No. 3 – first-look review

When sad-eyed music student Laura (Paula Beer) is involved in a car crash that leaves her boyfriend dead from an

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Renoir – first-look review | Little White Lies

Death seems to be an omniscient spectre and perennial fascination for promising filmmaker Chie Hayakawa. In her debut Plan 75,

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Pillion – first-look review | Little White Lies

Although based on the 2020 novel ‘Box Hill’ by Adam Mars-Jones, Harry Lighton’s Pillion is mostly unrecognisable from its source

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New Wave – first-look review

Richard Linklater’s homage to the filming of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless brings precious little new to the story of the New

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Die, My Love – first-look review

If you haven’t lived it, it’s hard to explain, that gnawing discomfort that makes you want to do something certified-capital-C

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My Father’s Shadow – first-look review

The outskirts of Lagos, 1993: a harried father, Fola (Sope Dirisu), returning to his tumbledown home, makes the snap decision