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‘Splitsville’ review: Dakota Johnson and Adria Arjona play love rivals in partner-swap comedy
Dir: Michael Angelo Covino. US. 2025. 105mins
One open marriage finally ends up wreaking havoc on two {couples} in Splitsville. Like director/co-writer/star Michael Angelo Covino’s...
‘The Disappearance Of Josef Mengele’ review: Kirill Serebrennikov’s drama tracks post-War life of the SS ‘Angel of Death’
Dir. Kirill Serebrennikov. France/Germany 2025. 136mins
Josef Mengele was the doctor and SS officer whose horrific experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz earned him the sobriquet...
‘Love On Trial’ review: Koji Fukada’s drama reveals the dark side of the J-pop phenomenon
Dir: Koji Fukada. Japan. 2025. 124mins
When it’s found {that a} younger Japanese singer has a boyfriend, thus breaking the ‘no love’ clause in her...
‘Amrum’ review: Fatih Akin directs coming-of-age drama set in 1945 Germany
Dir: Fatih Akin. Germany. 2025. 93mins
In his retelling of the Dr Faustus legend, written in 1947 with Germany nonetheless reeling from its latest defeat, German...
‘Orwell: 2+2=5’ review: Raoul Peck links the writer, thinker and activist to the Orwellian present day
Dir. Raoul Peck. US/France 2025. 119mins
The British author Eric Blair, higher often known as George Orwell (1903-1950), devised the components ‘2+2=5’ to encapsulate the methods...
‘The Love That Remains’ review: Follow-up to ‘Godland’ is a tender breakup drama
Dir/scr: Hlynur Palmason. Iceland/Denmark/France/Finland/Sweden. 2025. 109mins.
There’s some extent someplace in the direction of the tip of a wedding breakup when the sense of what...
‘Magellan’ review: Lav Diaz directs Gael Garcia Bernal as the titular Portuguese explorer
Dir. Lav Diaz. Portugal/Spain/France/Philippines/Taiwan 2025. 160mins
The illusions and indignities of European colonial historical past have been amply mapped in cinema from Aguirre to Zama. Magellan, by Flilipino star auteur Lav...