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‘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 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)...
‘Eddington’ review: Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal face off in Ari Aster’s wan satire
Dir/scr: Ari Aster. US. 2025. 148mins
Ari Aster’s fourth function seeks nothing lower than to ship a definitive snapshot of what America felt like in...
‘Renoir’ review: A grieving 11-year-old retreats into fantasy in 1980s Tokyo
Dir/scr: Chie Hayakawa. Japan/France/Singapore/Philippines/Indonesia/Qatar. 2025. 120mins
Together with her father sinking into the ultimate phases of terminal most cancers and her mom frazzled by stress,...
‘Nouvelle Vague’ review: Richard Linklater dramatises the making of Godard’s ‘Breathless’
Dir: Richard Linklater. France. 2025. 105mins
Working virtually fully in French, Richard Linklater crafts a black-and-white movie shot in Academy Ratio across the making of...
Cannes Jury Prize winner ‘Sirât’ sells widely including to UK-Ireland
The Match Manufacturing unit has secured 20 further gross sales on Cannes Jury Prize winner Sirât, together with main territories UK-Eire, Germany and Latin...
‘Die, My Love’ review: Jennifer Lawrence sparks Lynne Ramsay’s portrait of a troubled marriage
Dir: Lynne Ramsay. Canada. 2025. 119mins
As a brand new mom unravelling in terrifying style, Jennifer Lawrence is the match that lights Lynne Ramsay’s gripping,...
‘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...
‘Two Prosecutors’ review: Sergei Loznitsa returns to fiction with a rigorous Stalin-era fable
Dir. Sergei Loznitsa. France/Germany/Netherlands/Latvia/Romania/Lithuania. 2025. 102mins
The closed-trap logic of Soviet justice beneath Stalin is demonstrated with characteristically chilly rigour in Two Prosecutors, the primary fiction movie in seven...