Rating: 2.0★
There's something genuinely exciting about a film tournament format that forces you to watch cinema from corners of the world you'd never normally visit. My "Movie World Cup" has already thrown up some wonderful surprises, but it also drops you in front of films
Rating: 4.0★
There's a particular kind of pressure that surrounds a film like this. When a director of Hayao Miyazaki's stature comes out of retirement, again, to make the film he's apparently been building towards for decades, the weight of expectation is immense. The Boy and
Rating: 4.0★
One of the most devastating pieces of cinema I have ever experienced. That is not hyperbole, and I want to be upfront about that before we go any further. Bahman Ghobadi's Turtles Can Fly is the kind of film that sits in your chest long after the credits
Rating: 3.5★
There's a genuine audacity to what Moustapha Akkad attempts here, and for the most part, he pulls it off. The Message sets itself one of the most extraordinary creative challenges in the history of historical epic filmmaking: tell the story of the birth of Islam, with the Prophet
Rating: 2.5★
That opening sequence is something special. We're dropped into a quaint fishing village, Marat heading out to sea with his wife while her younger sister watches from the docks. Then, without warning, a colossal sandstorm rolls in across the horizon, swallowing everything in its path. It's
Rating: 3.5★
Everyone was talking about Saltburn when it landed, and honestly, I get it. Emerald Fennell's psychological thriller is the kind of film that burrows under your skin and refuses to let go, even when, maybe especially when, it's doing things you find completely daft. I came
Rating: 3.5★
There's a moment early in It Was Just an Accident where you catch yourself laughing, and then almost immediately feel guilty for it. That tonal shift, from dry, deadpan comedy to something far darker and more suffocating, is exactly what Jafar Panahi pulls off in his 2025 film,
Rating: 2.5★
There's a Coca-Cola bottle falling out of a plane and landing in the Kalahari Desert, and somehow that single image tells you everything you need to know about what you're in for. I took a trip back to 1980 to watch Jamie Uys's
Rating: 2.5★
There's something genuinely stirring about sitting down with a film that carries the weight of a nation's entire cinematic identity on its shoulders. The Island of Contenda holds the remarkable distinction of being the very first feature film both set in and produced entirely by native
Rating: 3.5★
Some films hit you like a fist. Soleil O is one of them. Med Hondo's 1970 debut feature follows an educated man from Mauritania who arrives in Paris with every reason to believe in the promise of the colonial "motherland," only to find door after door
Rating: 4.0★
Some films don't just stay with you. They haunt you. Jasmila Žbanić's Quo Vadis, Aida? is one of those films. From its opening scenes, you feel the dread settling in, and it never, ever lifts. This is one of the most gut-wrenching viewing experiences I&
Rating: 3.0★
There's a photograph at the heart of Jonah, and everything falls apart because of it. One man, one camera, one enormous fish leaping in the background, and suddenly a quiet Tanzanian fishing village is never the same again. It sounds almost whimsical, and for a brief moment it
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