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‘Homebound’ review: Neeraj Ghaywan’s empathetic Indian drama is backed by EP Martin Scorsese
Dir/scr: Neeraj Ghaywan. India. 2025. 117mins.
Does being homebound point out remaining the place one is, or does it recommend travelling again to at least...
‘The Girls We Want’ review: Inner-city kids fumble in Marseille-set debut
Dir: Prïncia Automotive. France. 2025. 93mins
A gaggle of children from inner-city Marseille is thrown into disarray when somebody returns after an extended absence within...
‘Romeria’ review: Carla Simon’s third, semi-autobiographical feature is ‘pensive and rather lovely’
Dir/scr: Carla Simon. Spain/Germany. 2025. 112 minutes.
Orphaned at a younger age and raised by her mom’s household in Barcelona, 18-year-old Marina (Llucia Garcia) has...
‘The History Of Sound’ review: Josh O’Connor and Paul Mescal are clandestine lovers in US-set period drama
Dir: Oliver Hermanus. USA, UK. 2025.127mins
Invented by Thomas Edison, the wax cylinder was the dominant recording expertise within the first 20 years of the...
‘Sentimental Value’ review: Renate Reinsve and Joachim Trier reunite for moving family drama
Dir: Joachim Trier. Norway/France/Denmark/Germany. 2025. 135mins
An actress daughter and her director father discover their household roles in Sentimental Worth, the delicate sixth function from...
‘Nino’ review: A cancer diagnosis prompts a weekend of reckoning in tender French drama
Dir/scr: Pauline Loques. France. 2025. 97mins
A bombshell medical prognosis prompts a younger man to replicate on life’s valuable presents in Nino, Pauline Loques’ delicately-handled debut...
‘Heads Or Tails?’ review: John C. Reilly is Buffalo Bill in this ‘rambunctious’ spaghetti Western
Dir: Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis. Italy/USA. 2025. 107mins
Within the late nineteenth century, American showman ‘Buffalo Invoice’ Cody (John C. Reilly, bewhiskered and...
‘The Six Billion Dollar Man’ review: Julian Assange is the ultimate whistleblower in Eugene Jarecki doc
Dir: Eugene Jarecki. US/Germany/France. 2025. 123mins
Is Julian Assange a crusading impartial journalist or a harmful menace to nationwide safety? The Six Billion Greenback Man...
‘Yes’ review: Nadav Lapid’s post-October 7 satire is loudly divisive
Dir: Nadav Lapid. France/Israel/Cyprus/Germany. 2025. 149mins
The October 7 assaults by Hamas, and Israel’s persevering with marketing campaign of retaliation in Gaza: most film-makers would...
‘Caravan’ review: A mother and her disabled son take to the road in Italy
Dir: Zuzana Kirchnerova. Czech Republic/Slovakia/Italy. 2025. 103 minutes
The burden of care is all-consuming in Caravan. Zuzana Kirchnerova’s achieved debut function charts the bond between a weary...