Naqqash Khalid’s inventive feature debut is a spiky take on navigating the British film industry as a non-white actor.
By Grace Dodd
Fawzia Mirza's joyful, Bollywood-inspired debut feature explores a tumultuous mother-daughter relationship.
Pascal Plante's haunting drama examines the dark reality of the true crime industrial complex in elegant and austere fashion.
Jeremy Saulnier returns with a flinty, restrained crime-conspiracy thriller exploring small town police corruption and the one guy who they should never have messed with.
Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark play a couple who move to an isolated Yorkshire Dales estate in Daniel Kokotajlo’s folk horror.
By Grace Dodd
Rage, tenderness and no small amount of laughter combine in this nuanced portrayal of the Swedish working-class from writer/director Mika Gustafson.
Set in a correctional facility, Greg Kwedar's poignant drama offers an exploration of art’s transformative potential.
Burton, Keaton and Ryder turn up the juice and see what shakes loose in a sequel 36 years in the making that manages to deliver plenty of laughs even if it's all a bit chaotic.
A young woman in Guatemala takes a deadly risk to find her missing sister in Justin Lerner's tense thriller.
Zoë Kravitz makes her directorial debut with this gutsy thriller about a dream vacation that quickly takes a dark turn.
A couple of Belfast likely lads set out on a journey of rap-based resistance in Rich Peppiatt's cheeky pseudo-bio of the band Kneecap.
By Maes Kerr
Maria Mire directs this innovative documentary about Margarida Tengarrinha, a member of the Portuguese Communist Party during António de Oliveira Salazar's premiership.
Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane star in a beautifully told story of grief, faith, and finding each other in a time of crisis.
A young woman begins to suspect something is desperately wrong at the ski resort her family have moved to in Tilman Singer's uneven sophomore film.
An abandoned CIA base in Kabul becomes a playground for the resurgent Taliban in Ibrahim Nash’at's intriguing piece of documentary reportage.
A detective is haunted by a murder case he can't crack in Wei Shujun's unsettling crime drama.
The Xenomorphs are allowed to run amok once more in this passable franchise offshoot.
M Night Shyamalan sets the stage for a killer game of cat and mouse as a psychopath attempts to outsmart the FBI while taking his daughter to see her favourite pop star.
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