Cinema in the 2020s has been defined by disruption: streaming upended theatrical habits, the pandemic forced a rethink of what a film release even means, and audiences have increasingly embraced subtitled films like How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies alongside big animation and documentary work. Macca's reviews from the decade reflect that breadth. Browse what he's made of it below.
Country United Kingdom
There is a very specific feeling at the heart of Hindsight that I recognised instantly, and it is the thing that carries Remi R.M. Moses' short further than its slender eleven minutes probably should. This is a warm, nicely observed little film about a young man, his first
Country Australia
Every so often a short comes along with a premise so neat you wonder why no one had done it before, and A Grief Encounter is one of those. James Ashley McLaren's Australian short is a funny, tender and genuinely original little film about a lonely taxidermist and
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
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
Country United Kingdom
I will be honest, for its first twenty minutes I was not at all sure about Lady, and then it pulled a swerve that completely won me over. What begins as a familiar cringe-comedy mockumentary quietly transforms into something far stranger, sadder and more ambitious, and by the end
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