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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

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The Phoenician Scheme review – an absolute gas

Allow me to propose a theory: The Phoenician Scheme is the third part of what we shall loosely and unofficially

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The Secret Agent – first-look review

When Marcelo (Wagner Moura) first arrives in Dona Sebastiana’s building, he is greeted by a curious cat whose head is

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Urgency and ambition in Cannes Acid 2025

On April 15 of this year, ACID, the youngest and smallest of the parallel selections at Cannes, announced its lineup,

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Météors – first-look review | Little White Lies

Boys will be boys. That’s the kind of idiom that would be used to brush off a fleeting encounter with

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The Love That Remains – first-look review

When he speaks of his inspirations, the Icelandic filmmaker Hlynur Pálmason mentions as many visual artists as movie directors: in

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Alpha – first-look review | Little White Lies

“I’m not afraid to die.” The refrain of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ ‘The Mercy Seat’ seems hardcoded into

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A new film festival aims to build a community…

CFFL aims to help develop filmmakers’ skills through workshops and Q&As focused on overcoming various filmmaking roadblocks such as difficulty

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Splitsville – first-look review | Little White Lies

The course of true love never did run smooth, and for the kind but clueless Carey (Kyle Marvin) he’s in

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Eagles of the Republic – first-look review

A slick screen icon becomes a political pawn in this brash movie industry satire-cum-political spy thriller from Tarik Saleh. From