Documentary maker Mark Cousins gets personal with this eye-opening essay film about the history of human vision.
Tom MacRae and Dan Gillespie Sells’ hit West End show is fabulously translated to the big screen.
A young woman tracks down her biological mother in Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy’s gripping study of trauma and identity.
Clare Dunne gives a captivating performance as a woman rebuilding her life after escaping an abusive relationship.
Morality, justice and the limits of the law are explored in this clichéd adaptation of Ferdinand von Schirach’s bestselling novel.
An amateur cartoonist meets her unborn child in Norwegian writer/director Yngvild Sve Flikke’s irreverent comedy.
Anne Zohra Berrached’s ’90s-set romance fictionalises the private life of United 93 hijacker Ziad Jarrah and his lover.
This conventional Aretha Franklin biopic is elevated by Jennifer Hudson’s transportive central performance.
By Weiting Liu
The MCU’s first Asian superhero movie combines thrilling spectacle with cultural specificity to correct the comics’ racist past.
By Lou Thomas
This slick crime-thriller sees civil unrest spill over on the streets of Copenhagen as the boys in blue lose control.
A woman’s Holocaust memoir becomes an international scandal in Sam Hobkinson’s compelling documentary.
Leos Carax’s surreal, Sparks-scripted musical-of-sorts stars Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard as ill-fated lovers.
Two sisters are reunited as their community comes apart at the seams in Cathy Brady’s Troubles-era drama.
Veteran German filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger recounts her formative experiences in the French capital in the 1960s.
By Leila Latif
Nia DaCosta re-examines the white saviour and Black boogeyman tropes in her bold horror reimagining.
Ayten Amin’s unconventional coming-of-age drama adopts a matter-of-fact view of modern Egyptian society.
Set in ’90s Scotland, Michael Caton-Jones’ winning comedy-drama sees a group of Catholic girls cut loose.
By Katie Goh
Studio Ghibli alums Masashi Ando and Masayuki Miyaji channels Princess Mononoke in their visually striking “medical fantasy”.
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