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‘Hot Milk’ review: Emma Mackey anchors uneven adaptation of Deborah Levy novel
Dir/scr: Rebecca Lenkiewicz. UK. 2025. 93mins.
Sofia (Emma Mackey) has been caring for her intermittently wheelchair-bound mom Rose (Fiona Shaw) for so long as she...
’The Devil Smokes’ review: Potent Mexican debut tracks five siblings over a traumatic summer
Dir: Ernesto Martínez Bucio. Mexico. 2024. 97mins
Formally difficult and imaginative, Ernesto Martínez Bucio’s debut The Satan Smokes (And Saves The Burnt Matches In The...
‘Ari’ review: Léonor Serraille delivers an engaging Rohmer-style drama
Dir/scr: Léonor Serraille. France/Belgium. 2025. 88mins
Lyon-born director Léonor Serraille, who received the Digicam d’Or for finest debut in Cannes in 2017 with Montparnasse Bienvenue, returns...
‘The Good Sister’ review: Siblings face down an accusation of rape in sharp German debut
Dir. Sarah Miro Fischer. Germany/Spain. 2025. 97mins
For chaotic, unanchored Rose (Marie Bloching), a nurse in a prenatal unit, her older brother Sam (Anton Weil)...
‘Deaf’ review: A new baby poses challenges for her hearing-impaired mother in Spanish debut
Dir/scr: Eva Libertad. Spain. 2024. 99mins.
The arrival of a brand new child places a pressure on the connection between a deaf girl and her...
‘Mickey 17’ review: Bong Joon Ho unites with Robert Pattinson for quirky near-future drama
Dir/scr: Bong Joon Ho. US/South Korea. 2025. 137mins
Six years after his Oscar-winning Parasite, writer-director Bong Joon Ho returns with a sci-fi darkish comedy that...
‘Where The Night Stands Still’ review: Modest Filipino domestic helper drama is set in rural Italy
Dir/scr. Liryc Dela Cruz. Italy/Philippines 2025. 75mins
The tensions of exile and servitude are performed out in deceptively low-key style in The place The Evening Stands Nonetheless, an Italy-set...
‘Dreams’ review: Jessica Chastain powers Michel Franco’s dance-based drama
Dir. Michel Franco. Mexico/US. 2025. 100mins
Love and dance make up one of many longest-established {couples} in cinema. When the dance occurs to be ballet, it’s seemingly...
‘Magic Farm’ review: Chloe Sevigny, Alex Wolff star in uneasy Argentina-set satire
Dir/scr: Amalia Ulman. Argentina/US. 2024. 93mins
A clueless American documentary crew travels to Argentina, the place they fail to get their story however maybe acquire...
‘Köln 75’ review: Lively re-staging of a 1975 jazz show is a showcase for actor Mala Emde
Dir/scr: Ido Fluk. Germany/Belgium/Poland 2025. 115mins.
Köln 75 just isn't strictly a jazz film – however then, as Ido Fluk’s movie retains telling us, the improvised music...