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‘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...
Natalie Portman-produced ‘Arco’ wins Cristal top prize at Annecy 2025
Ugo Bienvenu’s French function Arco received the Cristal award for greatest function movie on the 2025 Annecy Worldwide Animation Movie Competition.
Produced by Felix de...
‘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...
‘Woman And Child’ review: Saeed Roustaee drama heaps misfortune on an Iranian widow
Dir. Saeed Roustaee. Iran/France 2025. 131mins
The ‘raining stones’ precept of piling up disaster after disaster has at all times been a fundamental of social...
‘Colours Of Time’ review: Cédric Klapisch delivers a crowdpleasing comedy of France past and present
Dir. Cédric Klapisch. France 2025. 124 minutes
Previous, current and a beneficiant serving to of poetic license all merge entertainingly in Cédric Klapisch’s elegant, if...
‘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...
‘Resurrection’ review: Jackson Yee stars in Bi Gan’s sprawling cinematic vision
Dir: Bi Gan. China/France. 2025. 155mins
Bi Gan’s Resurrection reframes the historical past of cinema as a type of twentieth-century monster story that pans out over...
‘Young Mothers’ review: Five teenage mothers form the nucleus of the Dardenne brothers’ latest
Dir/scr: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne France. 2025. 105mins
In a residential shelter for younger moms in Liege, Belgium, 5 women grapple with the challenges of parenting a new...
Alexander Payne to be honoured by Locarno Film Festival
The Locarno Movie Pageant is ready to honour filmmaker Alexander Payne with the Pardo d’Onore, its honorary award for excellent achievement in cinema.
Payne will...