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‘No One Will Know’ review: A Parisian bar plays host to a looping crime thriller
Dir: Vincent Maël Cardona. France. 2025. 115mins
As daybreak breaks, a combination of regulars and strangers wash up in a down-at-heel bar known as Le...
‘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...
First Iraqi film to play at Cannes wins Directors’ Fortnight audience award
The President’s Cake, the primary Iraqi movie to play at Cannes Movie Pageant, has gained the Individuals’s Alternative award within the impartial Administrators’ Fortnight...
‘Pillion’ review: Alexander Skarsgard and Harry Melling star in frank British debut
Dir/scr: Harry Lighton. UK. 2025. 106mins
The commuter city of Bromley, 10 miles from the centre of London, might not appear to be the obvious...
‘A Magnificent Life’ review: Sylvain Chomet animates the life of Marcel Pagnol
Dir/scr: Sylvain Chomet. France/Luxembourg/Belgium 2025. 90mins
The playwright, writer and film-maker Marcel Pagnol (1895-1974) clearly did have A Magnificent Life – however you think about it will need to have...
‘Peak Everything’ review: Anne Emond’s bilingual romance takes some outlandish detours
Dir/scr: Anne Emond. Canada. 2025. 100mins.
A French man struggling a psychological well being disaster finds hope in probably the most unlikely of locations in...
‘My Father’s Shadow’ review: Sope Dirisu stars in this electric debut set in 1990s Nigeria
Dir: Akinola Davies Jr. UK/Nigeria. 2025. 95mins
Nigeria, 1993. A vital election has simply run, and the persons are hopeful of a win for Social...
‘The Secret Agent’ review: Kleber Mendonça Filho’s 1970s Brazilian thriller is ‘riot of a movie’
Dir/scr: Kleber Mendonça Filho. Brazil/France/Germany/Netherlands. 2025. 160mins
Brazil, 1977. A left-leaning educational and know-how professional flees a robust enemy, returning to the place of his...
’The Phoenician Scheme’ review: Benicio del Toro and Wes Anderson unite for espionage comedy-drama
Dir: Wes Anderson. US/Germany. 2025. 100mins
Wes Anderson’s movies usually function enterprising, self-reliant males decided to bend the world to their will — solely to...
‘Mama’ review: A Polish domestic worker has a difficult return home from Israel
Dir/scr: Or Sinai. Israel/Poland/Italy. 2025. 91mins
The emotional complexities of life as a live-in home employee are dropped at the fore in Or Sinai’s character-driven...