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‘Mickey 17’ review: Bong Joon Ho unites with Robert Pattinson for quirky near-future drama
Dir/scr: Bong Joon Ho. US/South Korea. 2025. 137mins
Six years after his Oscar-winning Parasite, writer-director Bong Joon Ho returns with a sci-fi darkish comedy that...
‘Köln 75’ review: Lively re-staging of a 1975 jazz show is a showcase for actor Mala Emde
Dir/scr: Ido Fluk. Germany/Belgium/Poland 2025. 115mins.
Köln 75 just isn't strictly a jazz film – however then, as Ido Fluk’s movie retains telling us, the improvised music...
‘The Old Woman With The Knife’ review: Bloody Korean actioner centres around an older assassin
Dir: Min Kyu-dong. South Korea. 2025. 131mins
Hornclaw (Hyeyoung Lee), a veteran murderer in her mid-sixties, is a legend; she is the most icily environment friendly operative...
‘Islands’ review: Sam Riley, Stacy Martin scorch in Canary Islands suspense
Dir. Jan-Ole Gerster. Germany. 2025. 123mins
Germany’s Jan-Ole Gerster bleaches his noir to the bone in Islands, a knotty Hitchcock-tinged drama set in in a parched...
‘All I Had Was Nothingness’ review: A powerful ‘Shoah’ through the eyes of its maker
Dir. Guillame Ribot. France. 2025. 94mins
Shoah (1985) is an uncompromising ‘stare into the black solar of the Shoah’ which took 12 years for director Claude...
‘Late Shift’ review: Leonie Benesch excels as a Swiss nurse under pressure
Dir/scr: Petra Volpe. Switzerland/Germany, 2025. 92 minutes
Late Shift is a finely-strung hospital drama from Switzerland starring the exceptional German actor Leonie Benesch which can twang...
‘Honey Bunch’ review: Bold Canadian period genre from the makers of ’Violation’
Dirs/scr: Madeleine Sims-Fewer, Dusty Mancinelli. Canada. 2025. 113mins.
All the way down to its final sudden zoom and misty anamorphic filter, the second function by...
‘After This Death’ review: Niche US-set mystery is an 'arch, implausible affair'
Dir/scr: Lucio Castro. US 2025. 96 minutes
In a movie riddled with outrageous coincidences, it is probably not a good suggestion to have characters touch upon...