Rating: 4.0★
There is a particular kind of documentary that does not simply report on the world but attempts to reframe the entire way you perceive it. Adam Curtis has spent the better part of four decades making exactly that kind of film, and HyperNormalisation, released by the BBC in October 2016,
Country Western Sahara
I have a real soft spot for films from Western Sahara, one of the rarest and most politically charged corners of world cinema, so I came to Wallace Minchong Li's Between Us and the World keen to like it. And there is a good deal to admire here,
Country Bermuda
There is a version of Bermuda that exists almost entirely on postcards, all pink beaches and pastel calm, and part of what makes Bermuda Riots Are Different worthwhile is how firmly it shoves that image aside. Co-directed by Alyson Thompson and Matt Mead, this six-minute documentary short digs
Country United Kingdom
I try to find something to hold onto in everything I watch, some spark of intention or craft even when a film is not working, but Sacha Beeley's Babyface defeated me. It is a six-minute animated short that I found close to unwatchable, an amateurish, charmless little
Country United Kingdom
Some films are hard to grade precisely because they do nothing wrong. Joe Molander's All Change is one of those, a four-minute short that is competent, well acted and perfectly sincere, and that I still cannot talk myself into rating as anything more than average. Two and
Country United Kingdom
There is a particular pleasure in a short film that knows exactly what it is and gets on with it, and Leah Vlemmiks's Agnes is one of those. It is a slight thing, story-wise, but it is made and performed with such care that I came away
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Here are the more popular films that have newly landed on Amazon Prime Video in the UK, 35 of them worth knowing about this month. Prime quietly adds and drops titles all the time, so this is your steer on what is worth queuing up. New on Amazon Prime UK
Rating: 3.5★
There is a particular kind of documentary that uses the camera not as an observational tool but as an act of love, almost of conjuration. Dick Johnson Is Dead, released in 2020 and distributed through Netflix after its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, belongs firmly to that tradition. Kirsten
Rating: 3.5★
There are films that demand you arrive prepared, and Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion is one of the less apologetic examples of the type. Released in 1997 by the Tokyo animation studio GAINAX, in partnership with Production I.G and Star Child Recording, the film was produced as
Rating: 3.0★
Taylor Swift occupies a peculiar position in contemporary culture: she is one of the most commercially successful recording artists on the planet, a figure whose every public move generates column inches, and yet she has remained, for years, genuinely difficult to read as a private person. Miss Americana, released on
Rating: 3.5★
Katia and Maurice Krafft were, by most reasonable measures, operating at the outer limit of what a human being can choose to do and survive. The French volcanologist couple spent roughly two decades driving themselves as close as physically possible to active eruptions, camera in hand, building an extraordinary personal
Rating: 1.5★
Paraguay's Chaco War of 1932 to 1935 was one of the bloodiest conflicts in twentieth-century South American history, a grinding territorial dispute between Paraguay and Bolivia fought over scrubland so remote and punishing that disease and thirst killed as many soldiers as combat did. It is not,
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