Reviews

The Devil Wears Prada 2 review – a stylish, satisfying sequel
Hokum review – pure poppycock
The Sheep Detectives review – cosy doesn’t cover it
Mother Mary review – beautiful and bewitching
Exit 8 review – one of the better translations of video game mechanics to cinema
Leonora in the Morning Light review – too many blank patches on the canvas

Features

History Chasing Its Tail: On Jocelyne Saab’s Beirut Trilogy
Hey Nostradamus: Conner O'Malley's American Dream
Rose of Nevada | Mother Mary | Vox Lux (2018)
Mark Jenkin: ‘I like looking backwards in order to move forwards’
Preliminary Visions of a Girl-Online
Rediscovering Singapore's first action heroine

Contributor Grace Barber-Plentie

On the measured anger of James Baldwin and Kendrick Lamar

by Grace Barber-Plentie

Raoul Peck’s use of ‘The Blacker the Berry’ in his civil rights documentary I Am Not Your Negro is truly inspired.

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The Devil Wears Prada 2 review – a stylish, satisfying sequel

Hokum review – pure poppycock

The Sheep Detectives review – cosy doesn’t cover it

Mother Mary review – beautiful and bewitching

Exit 8 review – one of the better translations of video game mechanics to cinema

Leonora in the Morning Light review – too many blank patches on the canvas

History Chasing Its Tail: On Jocelyne Saab’s Beirut Trilogy

Hey Nostradamus: Conner O'Malley's American Dream

Rose of Nevada | Mother Mary | Vox Lux (2018)

Mark Jenkin: ‘I like looking backwards in order to move forwards’

Preliminary Visions of a Girl-Online

Rediscovering Singapore's first action heroine

On the measured anger of James Baldwin and Kendrick Lamar