Festivals

Dream Scenario – first-look review

By Mark Asch

Nicolas Cage plays an otherwise unremarkable college professor who unexpectedly finds himself appearing in peoples' dreams in Kristoffer Borgli's latest satire.

Poolman – first-look review

By Charles Bramesco

There’s a whole lot of Chinatown in Chris Pine’s directorial debut Poolman, an Angeleno neo-noir with a script that gives Robert Towne more than fair grounds to sue for damages.

Next Goal Wins – first-look review

By Mark Asch

Taika Waititi is way-too eager to please with this aggressively feel-good comic fictionalisation of the lovely 2014 documentary of the same name.

Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros – first-look review

By Rafa Sales Ross

In his latest documentary, the American master Frederick Wiseman observes the routines of the Troisgros family and their three fine dining restaurants in France.

Woman of the Hour – first-look review

By Charles Bramesco

Anna Kendrick’s directorial debut, about a abused upstart actress and a serial killer in her midst, says all the right things, but too loud and too often.

Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World – first-look review

By Mark Asch

The new film from one of Romania's foremost cine-ironists, Radu Jude, is a glorious, poisonous, everything-in-the-pot treatise on the state of the world today.

Les Indésirables – first-look review

By Mark Asch

Ladj Ly’s follow-up to his Cesar award-winning Les Misérables is a hyperbolic state-of-the-nation address that lacks the logic and fire of that first feature.

The Boy and the Heron – first-look review

By Mark Asch

Less a swansong and more a heronsong from the Japanese maestro Hayao Miyazaki, a mystical and ambitious message of hope for the future.

Memory – first-look review

By Yasmine Kandil

Michel Franco's drama about the chokehold of the past boasts star power in Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard, but never quite delivers on its emotional premise.

The Royal Hotel – first-look review

By Mark Asch

More cinema of ominous discomfort from Kitty Green as she takes us to an out-of-the-way Australian boozer for some low-boiling violence.

Housekeeping for Beginners – first-look review

By Rafa Sales Ross

Goran Stolevski's third feature is a story of queer solidarity in Northern Macedonia that doesn't quite come together.

Gasoline Rainbow – first-look review

By Hannah Strong

A group of teenagers set off on a post-graduation road trip in Bill and Turner Ross's latest feature, billed as their first fiction.

Origin – first-look review

By Anahit Behrooz

Ava DuVernay adapts Isabel Wilkerson's 2020 non-fiction book 'Caste: The Origin of Our Discontents' with somewhat mixed results, interweaving Wilkerson's personal story into one of systemic subjugation.

Hit Man – first-look review

By Hannah Strong

Richard Linklater and Glen Powell team up for a highly entertaining black comedy about a mild-mannered college professor who becomes a fake hit man.

Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus – first-look review

By Xuanlin Tham

The final performance of the late Japanese composer is captured in stunning, heart-rending detail by his son.

Sky Peals – first-look review

By Hannah Strong

A young man who feels disconnected from the world around him receives shocking news about his absent father in Moin Hussain's moving feature debut.

Priscilla – first-look review

By Hannah Strong

Sofia Coppola turns her keen eye to modern mythology, adapting Priscilla Presley's memoir into a gorgeous, acutely sad coming-of-age drama.

Evil Does Not Exist – first-look review

By Xuanlin Tham

Ryusuke Hamaguchi's ecological drama about a small mountain village threatened by a new development is a haunting, glacial depiction of the gulf between capitalism and environmentalism.

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