Romance

Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy review – pleasant but forgettable

By Hannah Strong

Renée Zellweger dons her big knickers again as the frazzled heroine, this time getting her groove back after her husband's death.

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Emmanuelle review – anticlimactic and unerotic

By David Jenkins

Audrey Diwan’s cold take on the infamous erotic softcore French novel leaves a bit too much to be desired.

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We Live in Time review – every generation gets the cancer romance it deserves

By Mark Asch

Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh star as a couple whose life is disrupted by a devastating cancer diagnosis in John Crowley's romantic weepie.

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Queer review – Burroughs would be proud

By Hannah Strong

Luca Guadagnino heads on down to Mexico with Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey in his freewheeling take on William S. Burroughs’ eponymous novel.

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All We Imagine as Light review – this one is for the lover girls

By Jenna Mahale

Payal Kapadia's first fiction feature is a gorgeous romance concerning the lives of two contrasting nurses in present-day Mumbai.

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Layla review – Bilal Hasna shines

By Marina Ashioti

This occasionally-vibrant odd couple gay relationship drama is too superficial and silly to leave a lasting mark.

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Anora review – an amazing, hypermodern concept for a film

By David Jenkins

A young sex worker thinks she's hit the jackpot when she falls for a Russian nepo baby, but his parents have other plans in Sean Baker's anti-rom-com.

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Timestalker review – ripples with insight and emotion

By David Jenkins

Alice Lowe’s miraculous second feature is a triumph of imagination, soul-searching and a refined comic instinct.

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It Ends With Us review – struggles to grapple with its heavy themes

By Anna McKibbin

Literary behemoth Colleen Hoover makes her cinematic debut, with this meandering, shallow examination of domestic abuse.

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The Nature of Love review – cinematic and exuberant

By Josh Slater-Williams

A university professor's life is turned upside down when she falls in love with a construction worker in Monia Chokri's understated romantic comedy.

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The Beast review – a mind-boggling, sprawling romantic epic

By Hannah Strong

Across three timelines, a pair of lovers find each other again and again in Bertrand Bonello's ambitious, genre-defying latest.

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The Idea of You review – a sultry unexpectedly entertaining romance

By Hannah Strong

Anne Hathaway plays a 40-year-old single mother who embarks on a torrid love affair with a 24-year-old pop star in Michael Showalter's schmaltzy but not without charm rom-com.

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The Taste of Things review – every frame is delectable

By David Jenkins

Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel play late 19th century gourmets in Tran Ahn Hung’s scintillating epic of proto-foodie passions.

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All of Us Strangers review – a supernova of a film

By Hannah Strong

Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal are electric in Andrew Haigh's twist on the modern ghost story, adapted from Taichi Yamada's cult novel.

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Poor Things review – Lanthimos at his most playful and comedic

By Savina Petkova

Emma Stone gives a career-defining performance in Yorgos Lanthimos’ opulent provocation about the human body as a nexus for pleasure and pain.

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Fingernails review – lightly effective despite a flawed premise

By David Jenkins

The barroom love-tester is God in this gentle sci-fi comedy with Riz Ahmed and Jessie Buckley as working stiffs at a scientific institute for love.

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Past Lives review – unravels as a marvel

By Rafa Sales Ross

Celine Song's feature debut is a tender exploration of multiethnic romance, complimented by nuanced performances from Greta Lee and John Magaro.

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