By Erin Mussett
Jesse Eisenberg, Malcolm Washington and Christopher Andrews explored the diverging manifestations of generational trauma at this year's London Film Festival.
While the likes of Yorgos Lanthimos and Athina Rachel Tsangari have gone travelling the world, what’s going down on the Greek home front?
Kondo Ryota's debut feature is a chilling ghost story that begins with a videotape – but that's where the similarities to Ringu end in this impressive new J-Horror.
An elderly man plans the final year of his life in Daihachi Yoshida's impressive adaptation of Yasutaka Tsutsui's novel.
A standoffish young woman embarks on a road trip with an unusual 12-year-old girl in Yusuke Morii's offbeat sophomore feature.
Kazuya Shiraishi polishes off a 60-year-old script for this bloodthirsty samurai epic about a band of criminals recruited to defend a castle from the emperor's army during the Boshin War.
Our hand-picked haul of must-see titles from outside the main gala and competition strands.
Japan's biggest film festival returns with a line-up of 110 films for its 37th edition.
The dire lot of a low paid factory worker is the subject of this rigorous if hardly revelatory character study from debut director Laura Carreira.
Albert Serra’s extraordinary, intense portrait of toreador Andrés Roca Rey is one of the Spanish director’s finest works to date.
This lightweight Chabrolian country drama from François Ozon sees an elderly retiree with a complex past trying to do right by her family.
Audrey Diwan’s take on the infamous erotic French novel is a chilly, bemusing affair that lacks for a sense of real purpose.
Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s third film of 2024 is a French-language remake of his own 1998 feature about a grim, cyclical revenge mission.
Icíar Bollaín’s tabloidy but worthwhile #MeToo drama tells of a victim of sexual abuse within Spain's local political scene.
Amy Adams is on great form in Marielle Heller's adaptation of Rachel Yoder's novel about a new mother who is alarmed discover she is turning into a dog.
By Mark Asch
Jason Reitman pans back to 1975 and Lorne Michaels' ambitious plans for a live broadcast sketch show in his fanfiction retelling of SNL's inception.
By Esmé Holden
Esmé Holden offers a heartfelt reflection on the highs and lows of her first time attending the Locarno Film Festival.
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