By Leila Latif
Michele Pennetta trains his camera on a young Nigerian migrant living in Sicily in this poetic docudrama.
By Leila Latif
Somalia Seaton’s A Response to Your Message is a personal reflection on this year’s Black Lives Matter protests.
By Leila Latif
Rachel Brosnahan sheds her Mrs Maisel shtick in this compelling road movie about a woman on the run.
By Leila Latif
The genre prodigy talks perfect casting and practical effects in his latest shocker, Possessor.
By Leila Latif
Brandon Cronenberg follows up his impressive debut Antiviral with a visceral slice of hallucinatory ultraviolence.
By Leila Latif
Eva Mulvad’s moving docudrama sees an Iranian couple flee their home to follow their hearts.
By Leila Latif
John McNaughton’s infamous 1986 horror possesses a raw nihilistic power and uncompromising brutality.
By Leila Latif
A Czech artist develops an unlikely bond with the man who stole her work in this compassionate documentary.
By Leila Latif
Roald Dahl’s timeless children’s story is reimagined as a saccharine caper – but at least the cast are having fun.
By Leila Latif
A roistering doc profile of the late, liberal tub-thumper who worked at The New York Times.
By Leila Latif
This intriguing documentary explores the intersection between African American culture and basketball sneakers.
By Leila Latif
Sporadically absorbing psychodrama in which a traumatised woman has a fling with her mysterious neighbour.
By Leila Latif
Joanna Scanlan plays a Muslim convert who discovers a secret about her husband in Aleem Khan’s moving drama.
By Leila Latif
A new documentary gives a voice to the silenced natives in Joseph Conrad’s colonialist novel.
By Leila Latif
Lucy Brydon’s bold debut charts a woman’s struggle to rebuild her life while in recovery from an eating disorder.
By Leila Latif
The actor and director discuss the shared experiences that inspired their bittersweet love letter to their spiritual home.
By Leila Latif
Pop music and women’s liberation come to the fore in director Unjoo Moon’s slight biopic of Helen Reddy.
By Leila Latif
Disney’s live action remake ditches the kitsch and catchy songs – and is arguably weaker for it.
By Leila Latif
Spike Lee tackles black trauma, white saviourism and the ingloriousness of war in this searing Vietnam epic.
By Leila Latif
Exploring the rich and disturbing cinematic history of benign stalking. Whoever said nice guys finish last?
By Leila Latif
The Get Out and Us director has delivered a fresh set of sci-fi nightmares.
By Leila Latif
A Quiet Place and Hereditary are the latest films to challenge idealised notions of motherhood.
By Leila Latif
Fifty years after his death, does the Civil Rights Leader’s on screen image belie his true nature?
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