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‘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...
‘Nino’ review: A cancer diagnosis prompts a weekend of reckoning in tender French drama
Dir/scr: Pauline Loques. France. 2025. 97mins
A bombshell medical prognosis prompts a younger man to replicate on life’s valuable presents in Nino, Pauline Loques’ delicately-handled debut...
‘Heads Or Tails?’ review: John C. Reilly is Buffalo Bill in this ‘rambunctious’ spaghetti Western
Dir: Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis. Italy/USA. 2025. 107mins
Within the late nineteenth century, American showman ‘Buffalo Invoice’ Cody (John C. Reilly, bewhiskered and...
‘The Six Billion Dollar Man’ review: Julian Assange is the ultimate whistleblower in Eugene Jarecki doc
Dir: Eugene Jarecki. US/Germany/France. 2025. 123mins
Is Julian Assange a crusading impartial journalist or a harmful menace to nationwide safety? The Six Billion Greenback Man...
‘Yes’ review: Nadav Lapid’s post-October 7 satire is loudly divisive
Dir: Nadav Lapid. France/Israel/Cyprus/Germany. 2025. 149mins
The October 7 assaults by Hamas, and Israel’s persevering with marketing campaign of retaliation in Gaza: most film-makers would...
‘Caravan’ review: A mother and her disabled son take to the road in Italy
Dir: Zuzana Kirchnerova. Czech Republic/Slovakia/Italy. 2025. 103 minutes
The burden of care is all-consuming in Caravan. Zuzana Kirchnerova’s achieved debut function charts the bond between a weary...
‘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...
‘Colours Of Time’ review: Cédric Klapisch delivers a crowdpleasing comedy of France past and present
Dir. Cédric Klapisch. France 2025. 124 minutes
Previous, current and a beneficiant serving to of poetic license all merge entertainingly in Cédric Klapisch’s elegant, if...
‘Love On Trial’ review: Koji Fukada’s drama reveals the dark side of the J-pop phenomenon
Dir: Koji Fukada. Japan. 2025. 124mins
When it’s found {that a} younger Japanese singer has a boyfriend, thus breaking the ‘no love’ clause in her...