Steve Coogan co-stars with a penguin in this gentle dramedy from Peter Cattaneo that never quite matches up to the true story.
Jia Zhangke’s first feature in six years is a sweeping epic anchored by the captivating Zhao Tao, his muse and most frequent collaborator.
Finally free from the Marvel machine, Ryan Coogler delivers the goods and then some with his music-powered, genre-splicing latest.
Louise Courvoisier crafts a moving tale about cheese-making and coming of age, set in the rural French region of Jura.
Macdonald and Rice-Edwards immerse in the famous power couple’s lives in NY, but this estate-approved doc struggles to deliver intriguing insight.
Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche star as Odysseus and Penelope in Uberto Pasolini's retelling of Homer's epic.
Alex Garland teams up with Iraq War veteran Ray Mendoza for an evocative but empty war film, recreating a catastrophic day in Ramadi based on the memories of Mendoza and his comrades.
Rami Malek struggles in this boilerplate thriller as a CIA operative out to kill the men that murdered his wife.
A domestic abuse survivor finds herself on the first date from hell in Christopher Landon's phone-based thriller.
By Lucy Peters
A gentle, fictionalised foray into stage and screen legend Richard Burton’s Welsh childhood.
A young, London-based writer begins a double life as a sex worker in Mikko Mäkelä's queer psychological drama.
Alex Scharfman rallies together a cast stacked with comedic actors, but the result of this dull ‘Eat the Rich’ flick misses the mark.
Darren Thornton's remake of Mid-August Lunch sees a novelist on the brink of breaking out tasked with caring for his ailing mother and her friends.
By Rógan Graham
A-Level results day gives way to a compelling look at late teenhood in Sasha Nathani’s London-set debut feature.
A grieving family find themselves with an unwanted house guest in the latest underwhelming thriller from journeyman director Jaume Collet-Serra.
Alain Guiraudie defies neat categorisation with his shapeshifting eighth feature about morality, crime and queer desire.
The Neurocultures Collective and Steven Eastwood present a world perceived through autism in this wonderfully experimental, hybrid endeavour.
Jack Quaid delivers a charming performance as a man incapable of feeling pain in Dan Berk and Robert Olsen's ultraviolent action-comedy.
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