A man on his deathbed recounts his youth as a firefighter in João Pedro Rodrigues' queer feature.
By Ryan Coleman
A Costa Rican man resists attempts to destroy his home in Ariel Escalante Meza's mystical drama.
First-time feature director Emmanuelle Nicot paints an achingly beautiful portrait of friendship, recovery and identity through a young girl’s childhood sexual abuse story.
By Mark Asch
The Dardenne Brothers return with a harrowing story of human trafficking in Belgium, centered on two young migrants who find solace in each other.
Letitia Wright and Tamara Lawrance play a set of twins with a complex case of selective mutism in Agnieszka Smoczyńska's ambitious but flawed biographical feature.
Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor’s humanist portrait of care, surgery and technology is one of the highlights of Cannes 2022.
A narcissistic couple engage in a constant game of one-upmanship in Kristoffer Borgli’s disappointingly one-note feature.
David Cronenberg’s return to filmmaking can't quite deliver on its promise that surgery is the new sex.
A teenage cartoonist searches for authenticity in writer/director Owen Kline’s pleasingly grubby debut feature.
By Ed Gibbs
This multi-sensory look at David Bowie’s life and career is an all-consuming affair that explores and safeguards the man’s legacy.
A police detective forms a dangerous bond with a woman suspected of murdering her husband in Park Chan-wook’s swooning crime drama.
By Steph Green
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi mines her memories attending the prestigious Théâtre des Amandiers for this nostalgia-soaked drama.
By Mark Asch
Annie Ernaux and her son David piece together a magical home movie essay on marriage, motherhood and the whole damn thing.
A family’s quiet mountain life is disrupted by the arrival of a relative in Lea Mysius’ beguiling second feature.
By Steph Green
First-time director Charlotte Le Bon draws out sweet performances from her young co-stars in this idyllic coming-of-ager.
Gina Gammel and Riley Keough’s debut feature focuses on two Oglala Lakota teenagers as they come of age in South Dakota.
By Mark Asch
Ethan Coen’s solo debut effort is a ribald and energising archive montage on the life of taboo-busting rocker, Jerry Lee Lewis.
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