Features

Youth (Homecoming) – first-look review

By Anna McKibbin

The final chapter in Wang Bing's epic trilogy examines love old and new in China's Zhili province.

Double Threat: A history of actresses directing

By Little White Lies

An expansive, 50-film chronology looking back at the history of films directed by female actors.

The irrelevance of gender in the films of Pedro Almodóvar

By Meghana Kandlur

In the cinema of Pedro Almodóvar, gender proves more fluid and arbitrary than in much of contemporary cinema.

Pavements – first-look review

By Luke Hicks

Alex Ross Perry creates a unique docu-fiction about cult indie band Pavement, blurring the lines between real and fake to excellent comedic effect.

Joker: Folie à Deux – first-look review

By Hannah Strong

Todd Phillips recruits Lady Gaga to his circus act as Joaquin Phoenix reprises his role as the crime-committing clown about town in this shockingly amateur musical effort.

The Quiet Son – first-look review

By Rafa Sales Ross

Vincent Lindon stars as a widower trying to steer his young song away from the far right in the Coulin Sisters' frustrating drama.

Queer – first-look review

By Hannah Strong

Luca Guadagnino heads on down to Mexico with Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey in his freewheeling take on William S. Burroughs' eponymous novel.

2073 – first-look review

By Anahit Behrooz

Bending the boundaries of documentary and sci-fi, Asif Kapadia presents an urgent message about the current state of the world, and where we might be headed, with help from Samantha Morton.

Harvest – first-look review

By Hannah Strong

Athina Rachel Tsangari's solemn adaptation of Jim Crace's historical novel concentrates on the changing face of a Scottish farming village as the agricultural revolution begins.

I’m Still Here – first-look review

By Rafa Sales Ross

Walter Salles returns to narrative filmmaking with a sensitive depiction of the forced disappearance of former congressman Rubens Paiva, and the devastation his family faced.

The Room Next Door – first-look review

By Hannah Strong

Pedro Almodóvar makes his English-language feature debut with an adaptation of Sigrid Nunez's What Are You Going Through, starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton as old friends who reunite in a time of crisis.

Phantosmia – first-look review

By Anna McKibbin

The Filipino maestro returns with a four-hour meditative drama about a retired military officer who must confront his past after receiving an unusual medical diagnosis.

Leurs Enfants Après Eux – first-look review

By Yasmine Kandil

A wayward teenager in a struggling French town comes of age and experiences first over in Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma's stirring melodrama.

Wolfs – first-look review

By Hannah Strong

George Clooney and Brad Pitt play lone wolf fixers accidentally hired for the same job in Jon Watts' slightly repetitive but generally fine crime comedy.

From Darkness to Light – first-look review

By Ed Gibbs

The true story behind Jerry Lewis’ mythical, unseen fiasco, The Day the Clown Cried, is finally revealed, with the King of Comedy himself weighing in.

The Brutalist – first-look review

By Hannah Strong

Adrien Brody is phenomonal in Brady Corbet's sublime three-and-a-half hour drama, as a Jewish architect arrives in post-war America to a hostile new world.

The Order – first-look review

By Rafa Sales Ross

Justin Kurzel heads to America for his latest ripped-from-the-headlines drama, about the white supremacist group founded in the Pacific Northwest by Robert Jay Mathews and responsible for numerous terrorist acts throughout the 1980s.

Baby Invasion – first-look review

By Hannah Strong

Harmony Korine's second feature since starting his creative agency EDGLRD is somehow more shallow and tedious than the last.

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