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Review

Bergman Island

by Lillian Crawford

Mia Hansen-Løve’s lilting rumination on art, relationships and cinephilia is one of her most accomplished and moving films to date.

5
Anticipation
5
Enjoyment
5
In Retrospect
Three African-American children on a bus, looking thoughtfully out of the window.
Festivals

Mother and Son – first-look review

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Léonor Serraille comes good with her novelistic second feature about an immigrant family fighting for survival in France.
Young woman in a cluttered room, holding a plush toy.
Festivals

Showing Up – first-look review

by Caitlin Quinlan

Michelle Williams excels as a sculptor whose attention is sapped by colleagues and family in Kelly Reichardt’s ambient social satire.
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Festivals

Pacifiction – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Albert Serra returns with an apocalyptic saga set in Tahiti in one of his most accomplished and mature films to date.
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Festivals

Close – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Lukas Dhont’s second feature focuses on the friendship between two boys, and the tragedy that changes the trajectory of their lives.
A man in a workroom using a sewing machine, surrounded by colourful spools of thread and other sewing equipment.
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Broker – first-look review

by Charles Bramesco

A woman who leaves her infant son in a Busan ​“baby box” finds an unexpected family in Hirokazu Koreeda’s tender drama.
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Review

Elvis

by Anna Bogutskaya

Baz Luhrmann’s sweaty, opulent take on the King of rock ​’n’ roll is not a biopic but a fairy tale.

5
Anticipation
5
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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Festivals

The Stars at Noon – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Claire Denis adapts Denis Johnson’s 1986 novel about love in a time of revolution – with fascinating, if not entirely successful, results.
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Festivals

Leila’s Brothers – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Saeed Roustayi’s panoramic melodrama of a poverty-stricken Tehran family in the midst of disintegration is a knockout.
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Paris Memories – first-look review

by Hannah Strong

Alice Winocour draws on her brother’s experiences of the 2015 Bataclan attack to create a drama about recovering from trauma.