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‘Brand New Landscape’ review: Debut explores a Tokyo family in crisis
Dir: Yuiga Danzuka. Japan. 2025. 115mins
Two siblings have very totally different emotional reactions to attainable reconciliation with their estranged father in Yuiga Danzuka’s first...
‘A Pale View Of Hills’ review: Kazuo Ishiguro’s debut novel gets tangled between Japan and the UK
Dir/scr: Kei Ishikawa. Japan/UK/Poland. 2025. 123mins
The autumn-out from the atomic bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki has an afterlife that extends by generations on...
‘Left-Handed Girl’ review: Sean Baker-backed family drama is set on the bustling streets of Taipei
Dir: Shih-ching Tsou. Taiwan/France/USA/UK. 2025. 109mins
Returning to her native Taiwan from her US residence, common Sean Baker collaborator Shih-Ching Tsou channels the color and chaos...
‘Case 137’ review: Lea Drucker anchors Dominik Moll’s police corruption drama
Dir: Dominik Moll. France. 2025. 116mins
In Case 137, a French Inner Affairs officer investigates police misconduct through the 2018 yellow vests protests, solely to...
‘Sirât’ review: Oliver Laxe’s long strange trip stars Sergi López
Dir. Oliver Laxe. Spain/France 2025. 115 minutes.
The newest from French-Spanish director Oliver Laxe, Sirât is the proverbial lengthy, unusual journey. Half journey, half mystic-existential odyssey, it's the...
‘The President’s Cake review’: Quinzaine crowd-pleaser is set in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq
Dir/scr: Hasan Hadi. Iraq/US/Qatar. 2025. 102 minutes.
It could include fairy-tale substances, together with a dangerous lottery, a pet cockerel confidante and kids on a...
‘Amrum’ review: Fatih Akin directs coming-of-age drama set in 1945 Germany
Dir: Fatih Akin. Germany. 2025. 93mins
In his retelling of the Dr Faustus legend, written in 1947 with Germany nonetheless reeling from its latest defeat, German...
‘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)...