Rating: 3.0★
There's a moment early in And Then We Danced where a veteran instructor tells the young dancers that traditional Georgian dance contains no love, no sensuality, no individual feeling. It should be rigid, precise, masculine. And you immediately understand the trap that the film is setting, because everything
Rating: 3.0★
There's a specific kind of shame that comes with admitting your thirteen-year-old self got something badly wrong. I first watched Gurinder Chadha's Bend It Like Beckham back in 2002, and my overwhelming memory of it was that it felt cheap, almost like a British
Rating: 3.0★
There's a very specific flavour to early 2000s blockbusters, and The Day After Tomorrow is basically the purest distillation of it. Watching Roland Emmerich's climate disaster epic now, 22 years on, is a genuinely strange experience. Not bad strange, not good strange. Just strange. Like finding
Rating: 3.0★
Kieran Culkin is magnetic in this film. Whatever scene he's in, whatever he's doing, you simply cannot look away from him. That's a good thing, because A Real Pain pretty much lives or dies by whether you buy into his performance, and he more
Rating: 3.0★
There's something quietly disarming about a film that knows exactly what it is. Bye Bye Blue Bird, directed by Katrin Ottarsdóttir, is a low-budget Faroese road movie about two women returning home after seven years away and finding that home no longer quite fits. It's
Muslim International Film Festival (MIFF)
The Pakistani writer-director Seemab Gul built her reputation on short films before stepping up to her first feature, and Ghost School arrives with real festival pedigree, having played in the Berlinale's Generation strand and picked up a Crystal Bear nomination. It reaches UK audiences as part of
Rating: 3.0★
There's a moment watching Cannibal Tours where you catch one of these Western tourists driving a hard bargain over a handcrafted artefact, chipping away at the price with a smile on their face, completely at ease with themselves, and you feel your stomach drop. Not because of anything
Rating: 3.0★
There are some films you feel like you already know before you've even sat down to watch them, and Disney's Cinderella is the textbook example of that. The rags-to-riches fairy tale, the glass slipper, the pumpkin carriage, the wicked stepmother, and that Fairy Godmother
Muslim International Film Festival (MIFF)
Shahad Ameen announced herself with Scales (2019), a stark black and white fable about a girl marked out by her community, which premiered in Critics' Week at Venice and marked her out as one of the most distinctive new voices in Saudi cinema. Six years on, she trades that
Rating: 3.0★
The premise sounds corny, I'll be straight with you. A djinn unleashed by a missile strike into a Tehran apartment block during the Iran-Iraq War. On paper, that reads like the kind of horror concept you might pitch as a joke. But Babak Anvari's Under
Rating: 3.0★
There's a moment early in Listen to the Voices where a grandmother and her teenage grandson are ribbing each other about girlfriends and social media, and it's so warm and unforced that you almost forget you're watching a film. It feels like you'
Rating: 3.0★
My fiancée absolutely loves this film. It sits near the very top of her all-time favourites list, and so I went into it with a certain amount of pressure to feel the same way. I didn't, quite, but I can absolutely see what she sees in it,
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