Rating: 3.5★
There is a quiet magic to A Dessert for Constance that genuinely sneaks up on you. Sarah Maldoror's 1981 picture announces itself with the kind of premise that could easily slide into bleak social commentary: two immigrants in France, doing the thankless, back-breaking work of refuse collection.
Rating: 2.0★
If you've spent many hours scaling treacherous cliffs and picking through ancient ruins in the Uncharted video game series like I have, sitting down to Ruben Fleischer's 2022 film adaptation feels less like a cinematic reunion and more like a profound betrayal. That's not
Rating: 3.5★
There's a moment early in Dunkirk where the camera simply pulls back and you see it: hundreds of thousands of men, packed onto a beach, staring out at a sea that offers no obvious salvation. No character tells you how bad things are. No general delivers a grim
Rating: 2.0★
I must be missing the memo. Fallen Leaves has been hailed all over the place as some sort of triumphant return to form, a festival darling showered with praise, and I sat there watching it wondering what on earth everyone else was seeing that I wasn't. Strip away
Rating: 3.0★
The cover art had me completely fooled. Something about the imagery suggested I was in for a horror film, the kind that lingers in your peripheral vision and makes you uneasy in the dark. So when Antoneta Kastrati's Zana revealed itself to be something else entirely, something far
Rating: 4.0★
It's an absolute statistical anomaly for a legacy sequel to not just match its predecessor but to utterly eclipse it. Yet here we are. I walked into Top Gun: Maverick carrying the reasonable scepticism of anyone who's sat through enough hollow nostalgia grabs, and I walked
Rating: 4.0★
"Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?" Honestly, yeah. I just watched what is arguably one of the greatest cop films ever put to celluloid, and I came out the other side buzzing. That line has been quoted, parodied and imitated so many times over the decades
Thom Lunshof
First Zone was one of the films I was most curious about at this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival, and it did not disappoint. Thom Lunshof's debut feature imagines the Netherlands almost entirely underwater, a drowned country crossed by boat by a lone woman in search
Rating: 3.5★
We are absolutely saturated with cinema set in Afghanistan. From the Soviet invasion to the endless, grinding War on Terror, the country has frequently served as a backdrop for foreign filmmakers looking to capture geopolitical conflict. There is something almost reflexive about it now, the way Western productions reach for
Rating: 0.5★
I want to be fair here, I genuinely do. Oman doesn't have a deep or sprawling cinema history, so the fact that this fifteen-minute short by Anirban Ray is considered one of the most popular films from the nation isn't exactly a ringing endorsement of
Rating: 4.0★
There are films that entertain you, and then there are films that practically reach through the screen and squeeze the joy right out of your chest. John Hillcoat's adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's The Road is firmly, unapologetically in the latter category. I don't mean
Rating: 4.0★
Let's get the "female Superbad" label out of the way right now, because it's both accurate and reductive in equal measure. Yes, Bottoms absolutely belongs in that specific, highly coveted corner of chaotic, hormone-fuelled teen cinema alongside the likes of Booksmart. But the
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