By Leila Latif
The writer/director of lilting coming-of-age yarn, Girls Will be Girls, stresses the importance of capturing human intimacy with an air of authenticity.
By Leila Latif
The star of Zoë Kravitz's vacation thriller Blink Twice talks through her connection to her character, a past life as a waitress and learning to slow down.
By Leila Latif
The co-writer, producer and director of Blink Twice reflects on the long journey her first feature took from idea to actualisation.
By Leila Latif
Two lifelong best friends find their relationship tested as one of them navigates single motherhood in Pamela Adlon's delightful directorial debut.
By Leila Latif
Saoirse Ronan, Paul Mescal and Aaron Pierre star in Garth Davies' unnerving sci-fi drama, based on Iain Reid's novel about a couple's disturbed existence in an America ravaged by climate change.
By Leila Latif
Gareth Edwards serves up a visually ambitious story of war between humans and A.I. beings in this heartfelt sci-fi spectacle.
By Leila Latif
Justin Simien attempts to breathe life into Disney's latest ride-based franchise starter, but despite a fine cast the results are a little scattered.
By Leila Latif
Joseph Bologne receives a gorgeous biopic that also serves as a devastating reminder of a greatness nearly entirely expunged from history.
By Leila Latif
Miles Morales returns as the web-slinging hero of Brooklyn in this smart sequel which defies expectations.
By Leila Latif
Halle Bailey’s charms can’t distract from all the bizarre choices at the heart of this underwhelming live-action remake.
By Leila Latif
The filmmaker behind the remarkable Saint Omer explains how her own experience informed the creation of her intimate legal drama.
By Leila Latif
The veteran actor, musician and director speaks about his role in Noah Baumbach's White Noise, and what his long tenure in Hollywood has taught him about the world.
By Leila Latif
Chicago's Underground Abortion Network and a housewife's unwanted pregnancy lie at the centre of Phyllis Nagy's directorial debut.
By Leila Latif
Andrew Dominik’s warts-and-all portrait of tragic Hollywood icon Marilyn Monroe is as surreal as it is sad.
By Leila Latif
Andrew Dominik’s adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’ behemoth Marilyn Monroe novel is a surreal, anarchic take on celebrity and womanhood.
By Leila Latif
There should be a warrant out for someone's arrest after this dire western from Walter Hill.
By Leila Latif
Laura Poitras documents US artist Nan Goldin's attempts to expose the Sackler family for their role in the US opioid crisis, but with mixed results.
By Leila Latif
Malevolent conwoman Esther gets a backstory in this strangely overdue and unintentionally funny prequel to the 2009 hit.
By Leila Latif
A social outcast with a love of nature is accused of murder in Olivia Newman’s pretty but vacant adaptation of Delia Owens’ best-selling novel.
By Leila Latif
A retired widow sets out on a journey of sexual discovery in Sophie Hyde’s sensual, sex-positive dramedy.
By Leila Latif
The return of some familiar faces can’t save this dire dino flick from feeling like a cynical cash grab.
By Leila Latif
As he plays an overwhelmed indie director in Judd Apatow’s Covid comedy, the actor talks stunts and believing there really are no small parts.
By Leila Latif
Judd Apatow assembles a star-studded cast for this surprisingly fun Covid-themed comedy.
By Leila Latif
Fred Baillif’s third fiction feature is a riveting and bristling examination of trauma and the need for familial intimacy.
By Leila Latif
Joe Wright returns to his wheelhouse with a big-screen musical adaptation of Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac.
By Leila Latif
The latest ripped-from-the-headlines drama is glossy but potentially as toxic as its girlboss villain.
By Leila Latif
KeKe Palmer plays an enslaved woman who makes a shocking discovery in Krystin Ver Linden’s misjudged thriller.
By Leila Latif
The great Guillermo del Toro returns with this deliciously-dark tale of a circus huckster who takes things too far.
By Leila Latif
Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem play TV legends Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz in Aaron Sorkin’s snappy biopic.
By Leila Latif
Reinaldo Marcus Green gets the best out of Will Smith in this biopic of Venus and Serena Williams’ father and coach.
By Leila Latif
The British star of ear for eye on why the conversation around race needs to extend beyond the Black community.
By Leila Latif
Mike Flanagan’s latest Netflix outing, set in a small island community, is his most ambitious and personal work to date.
By Leila Latif
Nia DaCosta re-examines the white saviour and Black boogeyman tropes in her bold horror reimagining.
By Leila Latif
The industrious director reveals how she put a personal stamp on her Jordan Peele-produced refit of a horror classic.
By Leila Latif
Ryan Reynolds has an existential crisis inside a video game in this mostly entertaining action-adventure-comedy.
By Leila Latif
Questlove’s rhapsodic documentary revives the long-forgotten 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, aka ‘Black Woodstock’.
By Leila Latif
T A P E Collective discuss their BFI takeover and why representation is at the heart of their programming ethos.
By Leila Latif
A new restoration of his long out-of-print 1968 film Mandabi offers cause to celebrate the late Senegalese maverick.
By Leila Latif
Joanna Scanlan’s Islamic convert goes on a literal and metaphorical journey following the death of her husband.
By Leila Latif
Dusty Mancinelli and Madeleine Sims-Fewer’s gruelling rape revenge thriller shrewdly subverts the genre.
By Leila Latif
The actor discusses the ambiguity of his role in Judas and the Black Messiah while espousing peace, love and connectivity.
By Leila Latif
A woman becomes possessed by the spirit of one of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims in this misguided psychological horror.
By Leila Latif
Tina Turner has the final say on her tumultuous life and glittering career in this all-access documentary.
By Leila Latif
This sensitive and harrowing portrait of domestic abuse looks at how the justice system fails women.
By Leila Latif
Commanding performances from LaKeith Stanfield and Daniel Kaluuya power this electrifying Black Panther drama.
By Leila Latif
Kevin Macdonald updates his crowdsourced 2010 documentary to give a glimpse of life on Earth in the age of Covid.
By Leila Latif
Ruth Negga and Tessa Thompson star in this slow-paced but perceptive race drama from Rebecca Hall.
By Leila Latif
Questlove’s triumphant directorial debut charts the cultural impact and legacy of the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival.
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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