Rating: 2.0★
There's a particular kind of disappointment reserved for films where the most interesting thing about them is the press release. Where the Road Runs Out holds the genuine, undeniable distinction of being the first feature film ever shot in Equatorial Guinea, and look, that really is something worth
Rating: 3.5★
I can't believe I'm about to say this, but here we go: I genuinely like Barbie. I, a 37-year-old man, sat down, watched it, and came out the other side having had a proper good time. I even quite like Ken, which is a
Rating: 3.5★
Roger Ebert called Z his favourite film of 1969. It made history as the first film ever nominated for both Best Picture and Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards. It sits near the top of Letterboxd's all-time charts and is routinely name-checked whenever anyone
Rating: 3.0★
There's a version of this film that would've been one of the best horror pictures in years. Guillermo del Toro taking on Frankenstein, with a cast that includes Oscar Isaac, Christoph Waltz, Lars Mikkelsen and Mia Goth, shot through with his trademark gothic grandeur? On paper,
Rating: 3.0★
There's a moment watching We, Students! where you genuinely feel the weight of ambition pressing down on three young men who deserve so much better than what the world is handing them. Georges, Moïse, and Ernest are economics students in Bangui, full of grand plans for their country,
Rating: 2.5★
There's a particular kind of frustration that comes from watching a film fumble a genuinely great idea, and The Pod Generation had me feeling that frustration almost from the first frame. The premise is properly interesting: in the near future, couples can carry their baby in a detachable
Rating: 2.0★
There's a genuinely compelling story buried somewhere inside Village at the End of the World. A tiny settlement of roughly 59 people clinging to existence in the very north of Greenland, their population dwindling, their way of life under very real threat of extinction. That's the
Rating: 3.5★
There's a particular kind of dread that comes from watching something go horribly wrong on live television. Late Night with the Devil, directed by Cameron and Colin Cairnes, understands that completely, and it weaponises it to genuinely unsettling effect. I went in completely blind, as I always try
Rating: 1.5★
Sometimes a film baffles you in ways you genuinely weren't expecting. I went into Bobby Boermans' Dutch action thriller Invasion (or Invasie, as it's known in its home country) completely blind and with an open mind, and I came out the other side scratching my
Rating: 3.0★
Kiyoshi Kurosawa is one of those filmmakers I find genuinely hard to stop thinking about. There's a quality to his work, the way he uses deep focus and elongated shots to make you feel something lurking just outside the frame, that keeps pulling me back. Even when a
Rating: 3.0★
Sometimes a film feels like it's standing right at the edge of a cliff, ready to jump, and then it just... doesn't. That's Murina in a nutshell. It's a sun-scorched, salt-sprayed Croatian drama with every ingredient you'd want,
Rating: 3.5★
There's something genuinely exciting happening in South Asian cinema right now, and Fawzia Mirza's The Queen of My Dreams sits right in the middle of it. I came to this one hot on the heels of watching Joyland, another film that had me completely gripped, and
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