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Leila’s Brothers – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Saeed Roustayi’s panoram­ic melo­dra­ma of a pover­ty-strick­en Tehran fam­i­ly in the midst of dis­in­te­gra­tion is a knockout.
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Paris Memories – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Alice Winocour draws on her brother’s expe­ri­ences of the 2015 Bat­a­clan attack to cre­ate a dra­ma about recov­er­ing from trauma.
Two individuals, a man and a woman, in an embrace against a dark background. The man is wearing an orange t-shirt and the woman appears to be partially unclothed.
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Fogo Fatuo – first-look review

by Charles Bramesco

A man on his deathbed recounts his youth as a fire­fight­er in João Pedro Rodrigues’ strik­ing queer feature.
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Domingo and the Mist – first-look review

by Ryan Coleman

A Cos­ta Rican man resists attempts to destroy his home in direc­tor Ariel Escalante Meza’s mys­ti­cal drama.
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Love According to Dalva – first-look review

by Alexandria Slater

Emmanuelle Nicot paints an aching­ly beau­ti­ful por­trait of friend­ship, recov­ery and iden­ti­ty through a young girl’s sex­u­al abuse story.
A man in a red and grey hooded jacket stands holding a microphone, speaking to a young boy in a blue jacket.
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Tori and Lokita – first-look review

by Mark Asch

The Dar­d­enne broth­ers return with a har­row­ing sto­ry of human traf­fick­ing in Bel­gium, cen­tring on two young migrants.
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The Silent Twins – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Leti­tia Wright and Tama­ra Lawrance star in Agniesz­ka Smoczyńska’s ambi­tious but flawed bio­graph­i­cal feature.
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De Humani Corporis Fabrica – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Ver­e­na Par­avel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor’s human­ist por­trait of care, surgery and tech­nol­o­gy is one of the high­lights of Cannes 2022.
A woman in a wheelchair using a mobile phone and smoking a cigarette, with a polka dot scarf covering her face.
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Sick of Myself – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

A nar­cis­sis­tic cou­ple engage in a con­stant game of one-upman­ship in Kristof­fer Borgli’s dis­ap­point­ing­ly one-note feature.
Two people, a woman and a man, stand in a dim, warm-toned room with books on shelves behind them.
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Crimes of the Future – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

David Cronenberg’s return to film­mak­ing can’t quite deliv­er on its promise that surgery is the new sex.