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A diverse group of young football players in green shirts gathered around a white male coach who is yelling excitedly, with the coach surrounded by the smiling players.
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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.
Three men sitting at a table, engaged in conversation, with glasses of wine or other drinks on the table.
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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.
People sitting at a table in a colourful room with assorted decorations on the walls.
Review

Love Life review – frustrates its own poignance with melodrama

by Xuanlin Tham

Koji Fukuda’s ninth feature fails to meet the mark when it comes to exploring the knotty topic of familial grief.

4
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
Floral patterned set with retro style lamps, text "The Dating Game" in bold orange and yellow colours, several people seated on stage.
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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.
Two women in a bathroom, one reaching up to a hand dryer on the wall.
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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.
Crowd of protesters amid smoke and chaos, police officers stand on an elevated platform.
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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.
Two characters embracing in a rural outdoor setting with trees and a lake in the background.
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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.
A woman with long red hair wearing a green jacket, standing in a forested area.
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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.
Two people, a woman and a man, walking through a field with a telephone pole in the background.
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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.
Group of four people, two men and two women, sitting at a table in an office setting. The room has a wooden interior with ceiling tiles and windows. The individuals are dressed in formal attire, suggesting a business or legal context.
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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.