100 Nights of Hero – first-look review
No one could accuse writer and director Julia Jackman of lack of ambition. Her second feature, shot with the visual
Girl – first-look review | Little White Lies
In teenage dramas the lesson of the classroom often sets the tone, so when Hsiao-Lee’s (Bai Xiao-Ying) teacher asks his
Remake – first-look review | Little White Lies
Elsewhere, McElwee films old friends who starred in his earlier films, such as Charleen Swansea, a poetry teacher and friend of
In the Hand of Dante – first-look review
In his narrative poem ‘The Divine Comedy’, accepted to have been written between 1308 and 1321 and widely considered to
Duse – first-look review | Little White Lies
Pietro Marcello follows his interwar fairytale, Scarlet, by returning to the same time period for a half-literal, half-imagined portrait of legendary
The Voice of Hind Rajab – first-look review
This is a near impossible film to review. In a world flooded with propaganda and misinformation about the genocide in Gaza, Kaouther
A House of Dynamite – first-look review
Now and then it occurs to me that the future of my very existence, as well as that of the
Dead Man’s Wire – first-look review
Anti-heroes make for compelling subjects, particularly in a world as unjust as the one we live in, and 1970s American cinema
Songs of Forgotten Trees – first-look review
In 2023, director Anuparna Roy reinvigorated conventional South Asian cinema’s themes of poverty, privilege and patriarchy with her debut short
The Stranger – first-look review
François Ozon and Albert Camus do not seem like a obvious fit. The French filmmaker’s rather louche and uninhibited style seems