Country United Kingdom
Fishbrain is a stunner. Max Vanderspuy's short is a grim, briny little nightmare about love curdling into resentment, and it builds to some of the most impressive body horror I have seen in any film this year, let alone one this length. It is nasty, tender and genuinely
Country United Kingdom
Every so often a short film takes a single, slightly mad idea and commits to it so completely that you cannot help but admire the nerve of the thing. Sophia Di Martino's All Yours is one of those, an eight-minute piece of domestic body horror that is
2020s
There is a lovely idea buried inside Comédie-Française, and every so often the film brushes up against it. The Comédie-Française is the oldest still-performing theatre company in the world, an institution with three and a half centuries of history and one iron rule: the show is never
Rating: 3.5★
By 1936, Hollywood had refined the screwball comedy into something close to its own genre, a peculiar fusion of physical farce, rapid-fire wit, and class anxiety that felt perfectly suited to Depression-era audiences who were, by and large, in no mood to be sympathetic towards the idle rich.
Country Pakistan
I came to Lali as a card-carrying Joyland obsessive, and perhaps that was always going to be a problem. Sarmad Sultan Khoosat's darkly comic Pakistani fever dream, made by many of the same people who gave us that modern masterpiece, is a handsome, ambitious and frequently intriguing
Country United Kingdom
I will admit it, Geronto did not win me over straight away. For its opening stretch I thought I knew exactly what it was: a short about two men meeting by chance and going to bed together, and little more. I was wrong, and by the end this quiet, melancholy
Country United Kingdom
You have to admire a film that can take an idea this daft and make you feel something with it. Adrian Maganza's Fantasies of a Rescue Dummy is one of the more genuinely original shorts I have come across, a hybrid of live action and animation that asks
Country United Kingdom
Every so often a short film comes along that makes you wish, immediately and urgently, that it were a feature, and Michael Patrick Clarkson's Delisted is one of the strongest I have seen in a long while. It is a sharp, superbly produced slice of near-future dystopia
Rating: 3.0★
British prison dramas have a long and fairly distinguished lineage, from the kitchen-sink realism of the 1960s through to the grimier, more procedural territory that television has largely claimed in recent decades. Wasteman, arriving in 2025 from director Cal McMau and produced through a cluster of UK independents including
Country Canada
Well, this is one I will not forget in a hurry. Emily Lawson's Man Eating Pussy is as confrontational as its title promises, a grotesque, strange and surprisingly tender little piece of body horror that uses one genuinely unforgettable image to say something real. It does not all
Rating: 3.5★
When Rocky arrived in 1976, it was one of those films that seemed to come from nowhere and land everywhere. Made on a budget that barely registered by Hollywood standards, written by and starring a virtually unknown Sylvester Stallone, it won three Academy Awards including Best Picture and turned its
Rating: 3.5★
Werner Herzog has spent much of his career seeking out people who have pressed themselves against the outer edges of human experience, and Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997) may be the purest expression of that instinct he ever put on film. The subject is Dieter Dengler, a German-born
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