Untitled design.
Niko Tavernise/Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures/A24/Vertigo Releasing
Two vengeful women in love, a daughter on a mission to save her father, female spies and two ambitious wives.
Katy O’Brian and Kristen Stewart in Love Lies Bleeding.
Courtesy of A24
This chaotic queer romance thriller is at once absorbing and repulsive.
(L–R) Mike Faist as Art, Zendaya as Tashi and Josh O'Connor as Patrick in Challengers.
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures
The Challengers fuses sex and sport to explore our competitive instincts.
Alisha Weir as Abigail.
Universal Studios
Though she appears to be a child, we soon learn Abigail is centuries old, and has developed a habit for ‘playing with [her] food’
(L-R) Enzo Mari, Daisy Ridley, Taylor Swift and Andrew Scott.
Wiki Commons/Landmark Media/Associated Press/Alamy Stock Photo/Netflix
An album of easter eggs, a film about a woman with worrying dreams, a series about an unknowable man, new Welsh music and the last chance to see a design great.
Daisy Ridley in Sometimes I Think About Dying.
Vertigo Releasing
Fran (Daisy Ridley) has a complex and creative inner world that she escapes into in order to feel real.
Marisa Abela as Amy Winehouse.
Landmark Media/Alamy Stock Photo
While Back to Black succeeds in avoiding harmful representations of addiction, viewers don’t get a deep insight into its realities and complexities.
Godzilla and Kong in Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire.
Warner Bros. Pictures
The MonsterVerse is a slick, well-defined giant monster mythos that has further globalised Godzilla – and King Kong along with him.
Takumi and his village’s rural way of life is under threat when a company decides to literally set up camp in the area.
NEOPA
Hamaguchi’s new film is a poignant tale of capitalist expansion and the ensuing loss of rural living and environmental decline.
Jake Gyllenhaal in Road House.
Everett Collection Inc/Alamy Stock Photo
If you like action films, and you have your tongue firmly in your cheek, then you’ll probably like this.
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For its many strengths, the film may divide audiences with its chaotic, surreal final act.
Olivia Colman in a scene from Wicked Little Letters.
Landmark Media/Alamy Stock Photo
The film is part soap opera about neighbourly conflict, part cosy teatime detective story. And it’s also a showcase for some delightful swearing – my area of expertise.
Signature Entertainment
Out of Darkness attempts at historical accuracy are a welcome surprise, and what’s more, it is fun to watch.
Sarah Enticknap/Bonsai Films
New Australian film The Rooster is a small character study of two fragile men, and a powerful examination of isolation and moving on.
Prime Video
While there is nothing particularly surprising in Five Blind Dates, it is nevertheless a really refreshing film.
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.
Courtesy of A24
The film depicts the everyday life of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his family – yet, industrialised, genocidal violence moves along, continuously, in the background.