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A man helping a young boy aim a rifle in a snowy forest.
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RMN – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Roman­ian direc­tor Cris­t­ian Mungiu returns with a superb social real­ist west­ern with its fin­ger on the errat­ic pulse of Europe.
A woman in a dark jacket standing on a city street at night, surrounded by dimly lit buildings and pedestrians.
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Return to Seoul – first look review

by David Jenkins

Davy Chou’s bit­ter­sweet com­e­dy of a Kore­an adoptee search­ing for her bio­log­i­cal par­ents is pow­ered by a daz­zling lead performance.
Shirtless young man with flowers in hair holding smartphone.
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Triangle of Sadness – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

A young mod­el cou­ple find them­selves on the hol­i­day from hell in the lat­est provo­ca­tion from Sweden’s Ruben Östlund.
Two individuals, a light-skinned person and a dark-skinned person, seated together in a dimly lit room.
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Three Thousand Years of Longing – first-look review

by Catherine Bray

George Miller returns to our screens with an ambi­tious tale of desire and mag­ic fea­tur­ing Til­da Swin­ton and Idris Elba.
Close-up of a bearded man in a dark coat, looking pensive and deep in thought.
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The Stranger – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Thomas M Wright’s atmos­pher­ic but under­whelm­ing thriller tells of an elab­o­rate sting oper­a­tion to catch a killer in Australia.
Two young people, a man and a woman, reclining together on a couch in a store setting, surrounded by shelves of goods.
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Aftersun – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Paul Mescal doesn’t quite nail his role as a depressed young father in this emo­tion­al­ly furtive debut dra­ma from Char­lotte Wells.
A young person lying on a bed, their head resting on their hand, looking contemplative.
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Brother and Sister – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Arnaud Desplechin’s scin­til­lat­ing fam­i­ly ensem­ble charts a tox­ic sib­ling rival­ry, with Mar­i­on Cotil­lard and Melvil Poupard.
Several men wearing traditional Islamic headwear stand in front of ornate buildings.
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Boy from Heaven – first-look review

by Charles Bramesco

A pow­er strug­gle begins after the death of the grand imam at a pres­ti­gious Cairo uni­ver­si­ty in Tarik Saleh’s con­ven­tion­al drama.
A grey donkey with large ears stands in a grassy field, wearing a garland of carrots around its neck.
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EO – first-look review

by Mark Asch

A don­key in a trav­el­ling cir­cus grap­ples with cru­el fate in Jerzy Skolimowski’s strange­ly cap­ti­vat­ing drama.
A woman with curly dark hair, wearing a red jacket and a cream-coloured scarf, standing in a desert landscape.
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Enys Men – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Mark Jenkin’s fol­low-up to 2019’s beloved Bait is the haunt­ing tale of lone­ly botanist that offers audio­vi­su­al thrills a‑plenty.