Dahomey review – a blueprint for anti-colonialist action

by David Jenkins

Mati Diop offers a creative and moving guide to discussing anti-colonialist action in her very fine follow-up to 2019’s Atlantics.

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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.

The Outrun review – sensationally directed and performed

by Katherine McLaughlin

Saoirse Ronan stars as a young woman battling alcoholism on the Orkney Isles in Nora Fingscheidt’s adaptation of Amy Liptrott’s bestselling memoir.

His Three Daughters review – fires on all pistons

by David Jenkins

Carrie Coon, Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen play estranged sisters reuniting to care for their ailing father in Azazel Jacobs’ affecting chamber drama.

Girls Will Be Girls review – sympathetic to teendom

by Natasha Jagger

Shuchi Talati’s sensitive Sundance sensation focuses on a teenage girl in North India who experiences first love amid clashing with her mother.

In Camera review – a star is born in Nabhaan Rizwan

by Hannah Strong

Naqqash Khalid’s inventive feature debut is a spiky take on navigating the British film industry as a non-white actor.

Red Rooms review – a claustrophobic tech-tinged nightmare

by Hannah Strong

Pascal Plante’s haunting drama examines the dark reality of the true crime industrial complex in elegant and austere fashion.

Rebel Ridge review – Aaron Pierre delivers the goods and then some

by Kambole Campbell

Jeremy Saulnier returns with a flinty, restrained crime-conspiracy thriller exploring small town police corruption and the one guy who they should never have messed with.

Sing Sing review – Domingo and Maclin deliver powerhouse performances

by Isaac Feldberg

Set in a correctional facility, Greg Kwedar’s poignant drama offers an exploration of art’s transformative potential.

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice review – squelchy, stripy sequel fun

by Hannah Strong

Burton, Keaton and Ryder turn up the juice and see what shakes loose in a sequel 36 years in the making that manages to deliver plenty of laughs even if it’s all a bit chaotic.