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Young boy in a blue shirt sitting in a blue, glowing boat on a dark, shadowy lake, with a small white creature floating nearby.
Review

Elio review – a touching treaty on the search for belonging

by Yasmine Kandil

A social­ly awk­ward young boy dis­cov­ers alien life in Pixar’s sweet new inter­galac­tic adventure.

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In Retrospect
Two men walking together, one wearing a navy suit and the other in a yellow jacket and jeans.
Review

F1 review – speed is king, subtlety is yellow-flagged

by Adam Woodward

Brad Pitt is in scin­til­lat­ing form in this shame­less PR exer­cise, which also hap­pens to be one of the year’s most pure­ly enter­tain­ing cin­e­mat­ic experiences.

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Two people in casual clothes, one wearing a red top, chatting outdoors; people sitting at tables indoors, some playing musical instruments.
Festivals

Temporal Sensibilities: Queering timelines and nostalgia

by Yuki Yoshikawa, Pear Nual­lak

In col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Queer East Film Fes­ti­val, our sec­ond pair from the Emerg­ing Crit­ics cohort offer their thoughts on this year’s programme.
Couple embracing against warm-coloured sunset sky.
In Praise Of

Before Sunrise and the ultimate intimacy

by Jess Furseth

This year marks the 30th anniver­sary of Jesse and Céline meet­ing in Vien­na with no phones, no pho­tos, and no future. Richard Lin­klater’s roman­tic com­e­dy about their intense atten­tion has nev­er looked more attractive.
Truth & Movies: A Little White Lies Podcast
Podcast

How To Train Your Dragon | Lollipop | Ladybird Ladybird (1994)

On Truth & Movies this week, we dis­cuss the live action remake How To Train Your Drag­on, and Daisy-May Hudson’s pow­er­ful fic­tion­al fea­ture debut, Lol­lipop. Final­ly, for film club, we turn our atten­tion to Ken Loach’s Lady­bird Ladybird.
A close-up of a shirtless man with a bloodied and bruised face, his expression stern and intense.
Review

Protein review – nasty, funny, soulful

by David Jenkins

A gang of small-town drug deal­ing gym rats are set upon by a mur­der­ous stranger in this sat­is­fy­ing Welsh genre piece.

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Illustration of a smiling Daisy-May Hudson by Judith P. Raynault
Interviews

Daisy-May Hudson: ‘I want to make films that crack people’s hearts open’

by Katherine McLaughlin

The ambigu­ous and some­times trag­ic nature of moth­er­hood is the sub­ject of writer/​director Daisy-May Hudson’s force­ful debut, Lollipop.
Illustrated surreal scene with central figure in red suit, glasses, and hat against yellow sky with small figures in background.
Partnership

The Dreamworld Aesthetic of 8½

by Christina Newland

Through its vision­ary cin­e­matog­ra­phy and cos­tume design, Fed­eri­co Fellini’s 1963 film mas­ter­ful­ly blurs the lines between mem­o­ry, real­i­ty and fantasy.
Black dragon-like creature with horns and green eyes resting on sandy ground.
Review

How To Train Your Dragon review – never quite catches the updraft needed to soar to uncharted heights

by Yasmine Kandil

Dream­works’ first for­ay into the world of live-action remakes is fair­ly unre­mark­able despite occa­sion­al sparks of magic.

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In Retrospect
A collage of scenes from a film, including a man in traditional Japanese dress, a woman in a revealing dress, and various other characters in action.
Festivals

This Must Be the Place: A Queer East Correspondence

by Qinghan Chen, Lydia Leung

In col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Queer East Film Fes­ti­val, this year’s Emerg­ing Crit­ics cohort offer their respons­es to the film programme.