The Polynesian island of Tahiti represents a tropical purgatory for the French colonists in Albert Serra’s apocalyptic political thriller.
Tarik Saleh’s latest sees the election of a new Grand Imam take place in Egypt’s most prestigious university for Islamic scholarship.
Joaquin Phoenix plays a chronically nervous man on a mission to get home in Ari Aster's scattered third feature.
Lee Cronin’s affectionate, gore-caked remix of Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead offers an innovative and breathtaking model of how to exhume a beloved genre franchise.
Makoto Shinkai's third feature continues his fantastical vision with a teenage girl who accidentally opens a magical portal, but fails to make the same impact as Your Name and Weathering With You.
Russell Crowe plays a priest charged by the Vatican with driving out demons in Julius Avery's underwhelming religious horror.
Rebecca Lloyd-Evans and Lisa Selby’s feature documentary aims to explore the interconnected prisms of addiction and unorthodox motherhood.
Ben Affleck returns to the director's chair, fictionalising the fascinating story of how an iconic shoe was born.
Nintendo and Illumination team up to give everyone's favourite fictional plumber an animated makeover, with soulless results.
A Danish priest mounts an escapade to Iceland with a camera in hand and a dream of building a church in Hlynur Pálmason’s darkly comic epic.
A retired action film screenwriter falls into a coma that transforms into one of her own scripts in Martika Ramirez Escobar's debut feature.
The team behind Game Night offer a peppy spin on the classic 1970s roleplaying game, with Chris Pine as a rogue seeking revenge on those who have wronged him.
Taron Egerton stars in this entertaining but naggingly light retelling of the story of epochal computer game Tetris and its success in the west.
Dominik Moll grapples with an unsolved murder case taking place in a small Alpine town in this dark, true crime drama.
Amanda Kramer's alluring, neon-lit musical feature sees a newlywed couple catapulted into a queer awakening.
Using military training footage, Sierra Pettengill's archival documentary traces the origins of police militarisation in the US.
Emily Watson and Paul Mescal play mother and son in Anna Rose Holmer and Saela Davis' Irish fishing village-set drama.
Pierre Földes' debut feature is an animated adaptation of a several short stories by celebrated Japanese author Haruki Murakami.
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