Léa Mysius crafts an enigmatic tale about a young girl with a magical sense of smell in her auspicious second feature.
A gaudy blue folly which encapsulates James Cameron’s strength as an image-maker, but weakness as a storyteller.
Writer/director Ryan Coogler expands his colonialist critique in this epic MCU sequel which also pays moving tribute to the late Chadwick Boseman.
Miryam Charles' debut is a stunning drama that takes direct inspiration from her cousin's unexpected death.
A dancer and a musician form a unique friendship in Masaaki Yuasa's fantastical animated musical.
A dream auditor becomes caught up with an ageing eccentric in Kentucker Audley and Albert Birney's highly imaginative feature.
Mad Max director George Miller returns to the big screen with an adaptation of modern-day fable The Djinn in the Nightingale's Eye.
Taika Waititi returns to the MCU five years after Thor: Ragnarok with a disappointing sequel sorely lacking in charm and imagination.
Director Sam Raimi injects some much needed personality into Marvel’s latest brand-building exercise.
A tale as old as time gets a cyberspace makeover in Mamoru Hosoda’s reimagining of Beauty and the Beast.
By Sam Bodrojan
All hail the new flesh in Julia Ducournau’s dreamlike fable of a fractured young dancer grappling with the fire inside her.
Tom Holland’s third solo Spidey outing brings some familiar faces to the party, but we’ve seen it all before.
By Aimee Knight
Céline Sciamma puts a time-loop spin on the classic coming-of-age tale with this gentle family fairy tale.
Chloé Zhao remixes the Marvel Cinematic Universe template with this ethereal take on the classic superhero saga.
This time-travelling neo-giallo from Edgar Wright contains a few stunning sequences, but flubs the final act.
Dev Patel and Ralph Ineson face off in David Lowery’s adaptation of a popular Arthurian legend, with stylish results.
By Weiting Liu
The MCU’s first Asian superhero movie combines thrilling spectacle with cultural specificity to correct the comics’ racist past.
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