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Few films in recent memory have arrived with quite the cultural weight that Barbie carried into cinemas in the summer of 2023. Mattel's most famous product has been a fixture of popular culture since Ruth Handler introduced the doll at the New York Toy Fair in 1959, and
Rating: 3.5★
There are political thrillers, and then there are films that arrive so charged with real-world fury that the fiction barely disguises the rage beneath. Costa-Gavras's Z (1969) is very much the latter. Based on Vassilis Vassilikos's 1966 novel of the same name, the film
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Here is what is worth keeping an eye on at the cinema across the UK in July 2026. I have stuck to the releases most people will actually have on their radar, the bigger titles and the ones building a real head of steam, rather than listing every last thing
Rating: 3.0★
Mary Shelley's 1818 novel has had a longer life on screen than almost any other work of fiction. From James Whale's definitive 1931 Universal production through to Kenneth Branagh's sodden, overwrought 1994 version, Frankenstein has been pulled in just about every conceivable direction: camp,
Rating: 3.0★
The University of Bangui sits at something of a crossroads. Founded in 1970 and long regarded as the intellectual heart of the Central African Republic, it has spent much of the past two decades operating under extraordinary pressure: chronic underfunding, the displacement caused by recurring armed conflict across the country,
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There is a strain of Iranian cinema that loves to point the camera at itself, to sit an actor in a chair, ask them to perform, and watch the truth leak out around the edges of the fiction. Mehrnoush Alia's debut feature 1001 Frames belongs firmly to that
Rating: 3.5★
The Western is one of Hollywood's oldest and most codified genres, stretching back to the nickelodeon era and carrying with it a set of visual and moral assumptions that have proved remarkably stubborn. For most of that history, the genre's mythology was a white one, despite
Rating: 2.5★
Reproduction has been a recurring preoccupation of science fiction, from the bleakest dystopias to gentler satirical fables, and it is not hard to see why. Few subjects carry more political, philosophical, and emotional weight, and few lend themselves so readily to the kind of "what if" speculation that
Rating: 2.0★
There are roughly 56,000 people living in Greenland, spread across one of the largest and most sparsely populated landmasses on Earth. Most of those people are concentrated in the coastal towns of the south and west. Go further north, further still into the frozen periphery, and the communities become
Rating: 2.5★
There is something almost quaint about the fact that Bright arrived in December 2017 with the kind of fanfare usually reserved for a major studio tent-pole release, yet landed quietly on Netflix with no theatrical run to speak of. That was still a relatively novel distribution model for a
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Nuri Cihan Özdoğan's debut feature Dead Dogs Don't Bite takes its premise more or less straight from the headlines. After China stopped accepting the world's plastic waste in 2018, Turkey became one of the biggest destinations for Europe's discarded rubbish, and the
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There is a particular kind of Iranian film that takes something tiny, a debt, a misunderstanding, a single object, and stacks an almost unbearable amount of pressure on top of it. My Daughter's Hair, the first feature from director Hesam Farahmand, belongs firmly to that tradition, and it
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