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‘Saturn’ review’: Transilvania non-fiction winner paints complex portrait of fractured Spanish family
Dir/scr: Daniel Tornero. Spain. 2024. 96mins
A damaged household struggles to heal in Saturn, an intense, deeply private characteristic debut from Spanish director Daniel Tornero....
‘Bright Future’ review: Romanian documentary revisits 1989 Pyongyang Festival of Youth and Students
Dir/scr: Andra MacMasters. Romania/South Korea. 2024. 89mins
The idealistic glow of the previous is seen with the benefit of hindsight in Shiny Future. Andra MacMasters’...
‘Hi-Five’ review: ‘Burning’ star Yoo Ah-in joins strong cast for South Korean superhero movie
Dir: Kang Hyoung-chul. South Korea. 2025. 119mins
5 common Koreans develop superpowers following organ transplants in author/director Kang Hyoung-chul’s Hello-5, a wilfully kooky superhero origin...
‘M3GAN 2.0’ review: The killer doll meets her match in self-aware Universal sequel
Dir/scr: Gerard Johnstone. US. 2025. 119mins
Two years on from the occasions of megahit M3GAN, robotics engineer Gemma (Allison Williams) has moved on from designing...
‘The Last Spy’ review: CIA spymaster Peter Sichel shares his eye-opening life story
Dir/scr: Katharina Otto-Bernstein. 2025. Germany/US. 107mins
CIA spymaster Peter Sichel died in February 2025, aged 102. His closing testimony is a considerable interview reflecting on a...
‘Sleepless City’ review: Coming-of-age drama set in Europe’s largest shanty town in Spain
Dir: Guillermo Galoe. Spain/France. 2025. 97mins.
Politics and poetry are fused to memorable impact in Guillermo Galoe’s function debut, the colourful, melancholy and immersive Sleepless Metropolis....
‘The Richest Woman In The World’ review: Isabelle Huppert drama plays on a notorious real life L’Oréal heir
Dir: Thierry Klifa. France. 2025. 121mins
Isabelle Huppert is luxuriously reducing in The Richest Girl In The World. This household drama clearly impressed by L’Oreal...
‘Once Upon A Time In Gaza’ review: Satirical, resonant follow-up to ‘Gaza Mon Amour’
Dirs. Arab Nasser, Tarzan Nasser. France/Palestine/Germany/Portugal/Jordan//Qatar 2025. 90mins
Whereas the world sees day by day pictures of Gaza beneath siege, there's a notable dearth of...
‘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...
‘A Poet’ review: A failed Colombian poet mentors a promising young talent
Dir/scr: Simon Mesa Soto. Colombia/Germany/Sweden. 2025. 123mins
“I’m a poet,” protests the put-upon protagonist of Colombian Simon Mesa Soto’s Un Sure Regard title. “Truly, you’re...