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Honey Don’t! – first-look review

by David Jenkins

The second instalment of Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke’s lesbian genre film trilogy manages to just about snag a passing grade.
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Young Mothers first-look review

by Mark Asch

Belgium’s Dardenne brothers return with a typically emotive film about a group of very young women dealing with the dramas of childbirth.
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Woman and Child – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Love and humour gives way to bitterness and rancour in this slick and involving portrait of an Iranian family in turmoil from Saeed Roustaee.
Two people sitting on a bench at night, surrounded by blurred city lights in the background.
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Love on Trial – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

A young J‑pop singer must choose between love and stardom in Koji Fukada’s gentle romantic drama.
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Romería – first-look review

by Rafa Sales Ross

This semiautobiographical drama from Golden Bear-winner Carla Simón makes for a heartfelt exploration on the joys and pains of extended family.
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Heads or Tails? – first-look review

by Mark Asch

Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis deliver a spirited western ballad about a young woman seeking freedom and her daring lover.
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Sorry, Baby – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

A brilliant young academic struggles to come to terms with the aftermath of a sexual assault in Eva Victor’s moving dramedy.
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Sentimental Value – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Renate Reinsve plays an actress struggling with the sudden return of her estranged father in Joachim Trier’s latest drama.
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The History of Sound – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Two musicians set out to record the folk songs of rural America in Oliver Hermanus’ restrained but affecting drama.
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The Disappearance of Josef Mengele – first-look review

by Mark Asch

Russian exile filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikov selects Auschwitz’s ​“Angel of Death“ as the subject of the first film made in his new home, Germany.