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‘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...
‘Pillion’ review: Alexander Skarsgard and Harry Melling star in frank British debut
Dir/scr: Harry Lighton. UK. 2025. 106mins
The commuter city of Bromley, 10 miles from the centre of London, might not appear to be the obvious...
‘A Magnificent Life’ review: Sylvain Chomet animates the life of Marcel Pagnol
Dir/scr: Sylvain Chomet. France/Luxembourg/Belgium 2025. 90mins
The playwright, writer and film-maker Marcel Pagnol (1895-1974) clearly did have A Magnificent Life – however you think about it will need to have...
‘Peak Everything’ review: Anne Emond’s bilingual romance takes some outlandish detours
Dir/scr: Anne Emond. Canada. 2025. 100mins.
A French man struggling a psychological well being disaster finds hope in probably the most unlikely of locations in...
‘My Father’s Shadow’ review: Sope Dirisu stars in this electric debut set in 1990s Nigeria
Dir: Akinola Davies Jr. UK/Nigeria. 2025. 95mins
Nigeria, 1993. A vital election has simply run, and the persons are hopeful of a win for Social...
‘The Secret Agent’ review: Kleber Mendonça Filho’s 1970s Brazilian thriller is ‘riot of a movie’
Dir/scr: Kleber Mendonça Filho. Brazil/France/Germany/Netherlands. 2025. 160mins
Brazil, 1977. A left-leaning educational and know-how professional flees a robust enemy, returning to the place of his...
’The Phoenician Scheme’ review: Benicio del Toro and Wes Anderson unite for espionage comedy-drama
Dir: Wes Anderson. US/Germany. 2025. 100mins
Wes Anderson’s movies usually function enterprising, self-reliant males decided to bend the world to their will — solely to...
‘Mama’ review: A Polish domestic worker has a difficult return home from Israel
Dir/scr: Or Sinai. Israel/Poland/Italy. 2025. 91mins
The emotional complexities of life as a live-in home employee are dropped at the fore in Or Sinai’s character-driven...
‘The Love That Remains’ review: Follow-up to ‘Godland’ is a tender breakup drama
Dir/scr: Hlynur Palmason. Iceland/Denmark/France/Finland/Sweden. 2025. 109mins.
There’s some extent someplace in the direction of the tip of a wedding breakup when the sense of what...
‘Magellan’ review: Lav Diaz directs Gael Garcia Bernal as the titular Portuguese explorer
Dir. Lav Diaz. Portugal/Spain/France/Philippines/Taiwan 2025. 160mins
The illusions and indignities of European colonial historical past have been amply mapped in cinema from Aguirre to Zama. Magellan, by Flilipino star auteur Lav...