Edgar Wright’s lively London-set giallo, starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Thomasin McKenzie, fails to deliver on its fascinating premise.
Big laughs and searing insights into the artistic process power this highly enjoyable film world satire.
This unique journey to the centre of the earth is a stunning highlight of the 2021 Venice Film Festival.
By Steph Green
Harry Wootliff’s follow up to 2018’s Only You focuses on a relationship so toxic it’s almost radioactive.
Olivia Colman displays her dark side in Maggie Gyllenhaal's sun-bleached psychodrama about motherhood in crisis.
Timothée Chalamet brings a commanding central presence to this stirring new adaptation of Frank Herbert’s ‘Dune’.
Kristen Stewart excels in this psychological portrait of Princess Diana, but a heavy-handed script lets things down.
It’s Taxi Driver with poker chips in Paul Schrader’s phenomenally entertaining existential thriller.
Paolo Sorrentino gets personal in this hit-and-miss tale of a world-famous footballer and a filmmaker’s creative birth.
Jane Campion doesn’t so much dissect masculinity as explode it in her dirt-smudged adaptation of Thomas Savage’s western.
Pedro Almodóvar delivers yet another major late work, with Penélope Cruz on career-best form.
They’ll be joined by big names and exciting new talent, including Pedro Almodóvar, Ana Lily Amirpour and Pablo Larraín.
La Biennale’s 77th edition will go ahead as planned, with one of the festival’s most eclectic line-ups in years.
By Ed Gibbs
A chilling doc on the bizarre spectacle of the Russian people grieving over the death of Stalin.
By Tom Bond
Pete Mackie Burns' first rate follow-up to Daphne explores the repressed homosexuality of a shy dock worker.
Shannon Murphy's eloquent comic debut offers a unique take on terminal illness and drug addiction.
The great Swede Roy Andersson concentrates his style to its tragicomic essence – with spectacular results.
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