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‘Mirrors No. 3’ review: Rich study of trauma and grief unfolds in the German countryside
Dir/scr: Christian Petzold. Germany. 2025. 86 minutes.
Having survived a country-road automotive crash that killed her boyfriend, Berlin music scholar Laura (Paula Beer) is bodily...
‘A Useful Ghost’ review: A haunted vacuum cleaner collides with Thailand’s recent past
Dir/scr: Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke. Thailand/France/Singapore. 2025. 130 minutes.
If Yorgos Lanthimos relocated to Thailand his subsequent movie would possibly look one thing like critic, trainer, author...
‘Love Letters’ review: Drama charts lesbian couple’s rocky road to parenthood in 2014 France
Dir/scr: Alice Douard. France. 2025. 97mins
The pressures on a French lesbian couple anticipating their first youngster lie on the coronary heart of Love Letters....
‘I Only Rest In The Storm’ review: Pedro Pinho visits neo-colonialism in Guinea-Bissau
Dir: Pedro Pinho. Portugal/France/Brazil/Romania. 2025. 211mins
A Portuguese environmental engineer tries to navigate the difficult waters of being a white man in West Africa in I...
‘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...
‘Dangerous Animals’ review: Sean Byrne’s Australian sharksploitation lacks real bite
Dir: Sean Byrne. Australia. 2025. 98mins
The azure waters off Australia’s Gold Coast conceal a darkish secret in Harmful Animals; and it’s not simply the...
‘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,...
‘No One Will Know’ review: A Parisian bar plays host to a looping crime thriller
Dir: Vincent Maël Cardona. France. 2025. 115mins
As daybreak breaks, a combination of regulars and strangers wash up in a down-at-heel bar known as Le...
‘Orwell: 2+2=5’ review: Raoul Peck links the writer, thinker and activist to the Orwellian present day
Dir. Raoul Peck. US/France 2025. 119mins
The British author Eric Blair, higher often known as George Orwell (1903-1950), devised the components ‘2+2=5’ to encapsulate the methods...