A24
A harrowing portrayal of banal evil, a nuanced look at black fiction, a historically accurate TV series, a story about the power of love and a seriously cute exhibition.
Director Ava DuVernay filming in India.
Black Bear
I come from a Dalit background and I research Dalit representation in film. So I know first hand Origin’s importance to Dalit people.
Searchlight Pictures
A beautiful fantasy drama about grief and love and reclaiming the past.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc.
Meaningful engagement with diverse writers is still a struggle for the publishing industry.
Christian Friedel as Höss.
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The film depicts the everyday life of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his family – yet, industrialised, genocidal violence moves along, continuously, in the background.
Danielle Brooks as Sofia and Fantasia Barrino as Celie.
Eli Ade/Warner Bros
This adaption of Alice Walker’s 1982 novel is an emotional yet joyful exploration of black womanhood in the early 20th century South.
Part of the poster for the new Mean Girls movie.
Everett Collection Inc/Alamy Stock Photo
The problem with the Mean Girls musical film is that it is a pastiche of a pastiche.
Yorgos Lanthimos/Searchlight Pictures
A film adapted from a radical piece of Scottish Literature, powerful dramatisations of abuse and miscarriages of justice and a game show about deception
A24
Sofia Coppola’s biopic is adapted from Priscilla Presley’s memoir and exposes the dark side of her marriage to Elvis Presley.
Benoît Magimel and Juliette Binoche in The Taste of Things.
Courtesy of Carole Bethuel
With meticulous attention to food and how it is prepared, the film’s plot embraces simplicity.
Aardman/Netflix
Dawn of the Nugget has appealing new characters, emotional depth and distinctly British humour.
United Archives GmbH/Alamy Stock Photo
The Wrong Trousers introduced viewers to the endeavours of Feathers McGraw, a silent criminal mastermind penguin.
A scene from The Peasants.
Vertigo
An oil-painted instant cult classic, the Game Awards nominees and more.
Jagna and Boryna dancing in a scene from The Peasants.
Vertigo
The powerful beauty of The Peasants comes from the setting of the film against famous Polish and European paintings.
© 2023 Studio Ghibli
After 2013’s The Wind Rises, Miyazaki spent ten years creating The Boy and the Heron, speculated to be his final film.
Timothée Chalamet as Wonka.
Jaap Buittendijk/Warner Bros
It’s a little too dark for small children and not funny enough.
Bonsai Films
New independent Aussie film Christmess is emotionally engrossing and satisfying in its combination of melancholy tinged with the vague outlines of hope.
Ian Routledge
New Australian film Monolith is a refreshingly high concept film, as opposed to the usual social realist and period dramas.
Madman Entertainment
Arkie was created by illustrator Nathan Jurevicius 21 years ago. She has evolved into graphic novels, games, toys – and now an animated feature.
A couple have been chosen to help humanity survive the coming collapse of the planet.
Amazon Studios
Set in the not-so-distant future, Foe poses questions about humanity and what it means to be human in the face of environmental collapse.