CGI Blockbuster visuals aside, there’s much to love in Jon M Chu’s adaptation of one of Broadway’s biggest musical successes.
Johan Grimonprez's documentary explores the circumstances that led two American jazz musicians to crash the UN Security Council in protest against the murder of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba.
A large Italian-American family gather for the holidays in Tyler Taormina's freewheeling festive feature.
Paul Mescal picks up the mantel as the avenging angel of Rome in Ridley Scott's long-awaited but lacklustre sequel.
By Leila Latif
Malcolm Washington makes his feature directorial debut with an ambitious adaptation of one of August Wilson’s most well-known plays.
Calling for a free Palestine, this vital doc chronicles the resilience of the Masafer Yatta community and the occupation’s atrocities in the West Bank.
It’s three for three in the beloved bear franchise, as our marmalade-scoffing scamp heads off for an adventure in his South American homeland.
Social and magical realism merge in Andrea Arnold’s scintillating Thames Estuary fable about the friendship between a latchkey kid and a smiling wanderer searching for home.
Clint Eastwood’s 40th film offers a morally complex riff on the tried-and-tested courtroom drama which culminates in a killer final shot.
A young sex worker thinks she's hit the jackpot when she falls for a Russian nepo baby, but his parents have other plans in Sean Baker's anti-rom-com.
By Leila Latif
Two Mormon missionaries get more than they bargained for when they drop in on Hugh Grant in Scott Beck and Bryan Woods' effective psychological horror.
Two college friends reunite and reconsider the trajectory of their lives in Kazik Radwanski's keenly observed relationship comedy-drama.
Theatre legend Kathryn Hunter camps it up as a sinister old biddy terrorising her daughter-in-law Brandy Norwood in the horror debut from Max and Sam Eggers.
Tom Hardy seems tired and confused in this comic book sci-fi sequel that hasn’t got an original bone in its alien symbiote body.
By Juan Barquin
This ghastly musical melodrama from Jacques Audiard tells of a Mexican cartel boss’ gender affirming surgery.
Pedro Almodóvar makes his English-language debut with an adaptation of Sigrid Nunez's What Are You Going Through, starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton as old friends who reunite in a time of crisis.
Mati Diop offers a creative and moving guide to discussing anti-colonialist action in her very fine follow-up to 2019’s Atlantics.
François Ozon's first foray into crime comedy boasts bags of charm and a biting feminist edge.
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