By Weiting Liu
This intimate documentary, shot during lockdown in Wuhan, measures the human cost of the coronavirus pandemic.
This spellbinding and spiritual Latvian animation has parallels with Studio Ghibli’s The Red Turtle.
By Rogan Graham
Based on newly declassified transcripts, this documentary charts the US government’s harassment of the civil rights leader.
Jamie Foxx plays a jazz musician attempting to return to the land of the living in Pixar's latest animated spectacle.
Last call for drinks in this liquor-lashed celebration of American bar culture from Bill and Turner Ross.
Tessa Thompson and Nnamdi Asomugha shine in a heady tale of two lovers, set in 1960s Harlem.
Spike Lee’s filmed version of David Byrne’s celebrated concert shows a pop master at the peak of his powers.
By Aaron Hunt
A West Indian boy comes up against a racist educational system in the final film of Steve McQueen’s Small Axe series.
Queer romance blossoms in this tactful tale of migrant identity from first-time director Faraz Shariat.
Henry Blake’s assured debut sees a young boy forced into trafficking drugs across the UK’s internal borders.
A group of exiled libertines engage in a moonlit orgy in director Albert Serra’s puckish historical romp.
Taylor Swift and her folklore collaborators perform and dissect the pandemic album at New York’s Long Pond Studios.
John Boyega tackles institutional bigotry within the Metropolitan Police in Steve McQueen’s searing anti-racism drama.
By Leila Latif
Brandon Cronenberg follows up his impressive debut Antiviral with a visceral slice of hallucinatory ultraviolence.
Steve McQueen delivers a sublime party film for the ages in the second instalment of his Small Axe series.
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