By Matt Turner
Luke Lorentzen’s timely chronicle of a family-run ambulance service makes for engrossing viewing.
A botanist develops a revolutionary new plant in Jessica Hausner’s sci-fi tinged social parable.
By Katie Goh
Céline Sciamma’s sumptuous, quietly radical 18th century love story is one of the year’s very best.
By Anton Bitel
A young romance blooms one wild night in Tokyo in director Takashi Miike’s high-energy caper.
By Anton Bitel
A traumatised man summons his former imaginary friend in Adam Egypt Mortimer’s knotty psychological thriller.
Margot Robbie brings anarchy and attitude to the DCEU in Cathy Yan’s pop-punk ode to womanhood.
By Maria Nae
Four local filmmakers attempt to revive cinema-going in Sudan in this playful, inspiring documentary.
By Elena Lazic
Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe take a brutal tumble into the abyss in Robert Eggers’ monochrome nightmare.
By Mark Asch
Clint Eastwood continues his stellar run of films about unlikely American heroes hunted by the spotlight.
By Lou Thomas
Armando Iannucci trades satire for spirited period comedy in a Charles Dickens adaptation for the ages.
By Matt Turner
China’s vast live-streaming industry is laid bare in Shengze Zhu’s captivating documentary.
Afghan director Hassan Fazili documents his family’s persecution at the hands of the Taliban.
Private, unseen protest forges a spiritual path to God in Terrence Malick’s rhapsodic resistance drama.
Writer/director Trey Edward Shults delivers another spiky interrogation of parent-child relationships.
Your Name director Makoto Shinkai returns with a riveting fantasy romance backdropped by environmental ruin.
This gripping drama written, directed by and starring an Indigenous Canadian woman has quietly snuck onto Netflix.
Sam Mendes’ gripping World War One drama is light on plot but displays plenty of technical panache.
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