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‘The Plague’ review: Joel Edgerton produces, stars in timely hazing drama
Dir/scr: Charlie Polinger. US/United Arab Emirates. 2025. 98mins
Author/director Charlie Polinger’s jittery first characteristic takes place at an all-boys water polo camp, the place adolescents...
‘Her Will Be Done’ review: A young woman faces an ancient evil in rural French horror
Dir/scr: Julia Kowalski. France/Poland. 2025. 98mins
Purification requires sacrifice in Her Will Be Finished, a murky rural horror wherein a younger girl Is determined to...
‘The Little Sister’ review: Hafsia Herzi explores identity and faith in coming-of-age story
Dir/scr: Hafsia Herzi. France. 2025. 108 minutes.
The youngest of three daughters in a French Algerian household residing within the suburbs of Paris, Fatima (Nadia Melliti)...
‘Eddington’ review: Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal face off in Ari Aster’s wan satire
Dir/scr: Ari Aster. US. 2025. 148mins
Ari Aster’s fourth function seeks nothing lower than to ship a definitive snapshot of what America felt like in...
‘Bono: Stories Of Surrender’ review: U2’s Bono looks back in energetic solo show
Dir: Andrew Dominik. US/Italy/Eire. 2025. 87mins
To mark the 2022 publication of his memoir ’Give up: 40 Songs’ , U2 frontman Bono launched into a...
‘Sons Of The Neon Night’ review: With no expense spared, Juno Mak constructs an alternate 1990s Hong Kong
Dir: Juno Mak. Hong Kong. 2025. 129mins
Conflicting morality, ambitions and strategies are on the coronary heart of Sons Of The Neon Night time, the...
‘The Chronology Of Water’ review: Kristen Stewart’s debut is an intense deep-dive into the life of a troubled artist
Dir: Kristen Stewart. France/Latvia/US. 2025. 128mins
Some artists dwell with demons, and Kristen Stewart’s function directorial debut dives deep into those who affected Lidia Yuknavitch,...
‘The Wave’ review: Sebastian Lelio's ambitious feminist musical is set to Chile’s university strikes
Dir: Sebastian Lelio. Chile. 129 minutes.
Feminist pleasure and anger pour out in a riot of tune and dance numbers in Sebastian Lelio’s tribute to...
‘Wild Foxes’ review: Samuel Kircher lands a punch in school boxing drama
Dir/scr: Valery Carnoy. Belgium/France. 2025. 92mins
Samuel Kircher’s rising star standing is confirmed by Wild Foxes, his efficiency as a troubled younger boxer the principle occasion in...
‘Urchin’ review: Harris Dickinson directs an elevated study of addiction
Dir/scr: Harris Dickinson. UK. 2025. 99mins
Mike (Frank Dillane), a rough-sleeper in London, is trapped in a spiralling downward cycle of substance abuse. Following a...