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‘Eagles Of The Republic’ review: Tarik Saleh reunites with Fares Fares to end his Cairo trilogy
Dir/scr: Tarik Saleh. Sweden/France/Denmark. 2025. 128mins
The primary two instalments of Tarik Saleh’s politically-charged ‘Cairo trilogy’ had been despairing examinations of the corruption and paranoia...
‘It Was Just An Accident’ review: Jafar Panahi confronts the Iranian injustice system head-on
Dir/scr: Jafar Panahi. Iran/France/Luxembourg. 2025. 103mins
A person (Ebrahim Azizi), his closely pregnant spouse (Afssaneh Najmabadi) and their younger daughter (Delmaz Najafi) are driving late...
‘Fuori’ review: Mario Martone, Valeria Golino zoom in on ‘Art Of Joy’ author Goliarda Sapienza
Dir: Mario Martone. Italy/France. 2025. 115mins
Fuori is a typically participating, typically self-indulgent story of an Italian feminine author’s unorthodox journey in the direction of...
‘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...
‘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...
‘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...
‘The Mastermind’ review: Kelly Reichardt’s sombre slice of 1970s Americana stars Josh O’Connor
Dir/scr: Kelly Reichardt US. 2025. 110mins
Kelly Reichardt typically tackles genres from indirect angles, subverting their most recognisable tropes to make one thing private and...
‘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...