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‘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...
‘Exit 8’ review: Tokyo’s subway is an endless purgatory in ‘ingenious’ video game adaptation
Dir. Genki Kawamura. Japan 2025. 95mins
The theme music to Genki Kawamura’s conceptual chiller Exit 8 is Ravel’s Bolero, nevertheless it may simply have kicked...
’Thank You For Banking With Us!’ scoops top prize at Critics Awards for Arab Films
Laila Abbas’s Thank You For Banking With Us has scooped finest movie on the ninth Critics Awards for Arab Movies, which is able to...
‘Adam’s Sake’ review: Critics Week opens with tense hospital drama from ’Playground’s Laura Wandel
Dir: Laura Wandel. Belgium/France. 2025. 78 minutes.
Lucy (Léa Drucker) is a nurse on a paediatric unit in a busy unnamed hospital, the place we...
‘Enzo’ review: Directors’ Fortnight opens with Laurent Cantet’s last film, directed by Robin Campillo
Dirs. Robin Campillo, Laurent Cantet. France/Italy/Belgium. 2025. 102mins.
Directed by Robin Campillo, however credited up entrance as ‘a movie by Laurent Cantet’, Enzo is a strong...
‘Reedland’ review: A violent crime rocks a rural Dutch community
Dir/scr: Sven Bresser. Netherlands/Belgium. 2025. 111mins
When ageing Dutch reed cutter Johan (Gerrit Knobbe) discovers the physique of a younger lady on his land, his...
‘Sound Of Falling’ review: Trauma seeps through a century of women’s lives in rural Germany
Dir: Mascha Schilinski. Germany. 2025. 148mins
At instances it appears as if tragedy has seeped into the very partitions of the sprawling farmhouse in Germany’s...
’Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning’ review: Spy franchise wraps a self-regarding double bill
Dir. Christopher McQuarrie. US. 2025. 169mins.
Misplaced for the primary third in its personal lore, Mission: Not possible – The Ultimate Reckoning is simply closing in that...
‘Promised Sky’ review: Follow-up to ‘Under The Fig Trees’ opens Un Certain Regard
Dir: Erige Sehiri. France/Tunisia/Qatar. 2025. 95mins
Reflecting actual occasions, Promised Sky follows three Ivorian girls attempting to make a recent begin for themselves as sub-Saharan...