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‘Shadowbox’ review: Indian debut boasts ‘storytelling of economy and elegance’
Dir. Tanushree Das, Saumyananda Sahi. India/France/USA/Spain. 2025. 93mins
Maya (Tillotama Shome) is accustomed to taking the lead in her marriage to Sundar (Chandan Bisht), a...
‘The Blue Trail’ review: Gabriel Mascaro drama fights ageism in a future Brazil
Dir. Gabriel Mascaro. Brazil/Mexico/Netherlands/Chile 2025. 86mins.
Gabriel Mascaro’s The Blue Path is a balmy riverboat experience into the unknown – in addition to a bolshy protest towards ageism...
‘Olmo’ review: Fernando Eimbcke delivers Plan B’s first micro-budget feature
Dir: Fernando Eimbcke. US/Mexico. 2025. 84mins
A bittersweet and deceptively slight household drama set in late ’70s New Mexico, Fernando Eimbcke’s fourth characteristic Olmo exhibits...
‘Punching The World’ review: A fresh take on German radicalisation
Dir/scr: Costanze Klaue. Germany. 2025. 110mins
The methods by which the provinces of former East Germany grew to become, after reunification, seedbeds of xenophobia and...
‘The Ice Tower’ review: Marion Cotillard stars in Lucile Hadzihalilovic’s Snow Queen re-take
Dir: Lucile Hadzihalilovic. Fr/Ger. 2025. 118mins
Numerous diversifications and appropriations – amongst them Disney’s Frozen – have diluted the sheer weirdness of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy...
‘The Old Woman With The Knife’ review: Bloody Korean actioner centres around an older assassin
Dir: Min Kyu-dong. South Korea. 2025. 131mins
Hornclaw (Hyeyoung Lee), a veteran murderer in her mid-sixties, is a legend; she is the most icily environment friendly operative...
‘How To Be Normal’ review: Peppy debut from Austria tackles mental illness
Dir/scr: Florian Pochlatko. Austria. 2025. 102mins.
Psychological sickness could be a tough factor to get proper in any artwork kind. In his peppy debut characteristic,...
‘Islands’ review: Sam Riley, Stacy Martin scorch in Canary Islands suspense
Dir. Jan-Ole Gerster. Germany. 2025. 123mins
Germany’s Jan-Ole Gerster bleaches his noir to the bone in Islands, a knotty Hitchcock-tinged drama set in in a parched...
‘Reflection In A Dead Diamond’ review: Fast and frenetic movie geek nostalgia
Dir. Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani. Belgium/Luxembourg/France/Italy 2025. 87mins
Hardcore modernists dedicated to residing prior to now, Brussels-based duo Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani have created their very...
‘All I Had Was Nothingness’ review: A powerful ‘Shoah’ through the eyes of its maker
Dir. Guillame Ribot. France. 2025. 94mins
Shoah (1985) is an uncompromising ‘stare into the black solar of the Shoah’ which took 12 years for director Claude...