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Ryan Gosling – Jacket Man

If you ever find yourself wandering the streets of east London on a Friday night, maybe a few virgin Sea Breezes into your evening, you’ll likely see

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Ready or Not 2: Here I Come review – here comes…

When you have a hit film these days, inevitably the question always arises about a sequel. There’s very little studios love more than a bit of valuable IP,

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Forbidden Fruits – first-look review

Channeling the spirits of movies like Mean Girls and The Craft, Forbidden Fruits follows a group of young women working at a mall as they fight over group control, seek belonging, and

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Project Hail Mary review – an entertaining…

The sci-fi subgenre of ​“ordinary man with remarkable but niche skill set ends up reluctantly saving the world” somehow still finds fertile ground in 2026

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Scarlet review – a disappointing offering from an…

Across his two-decade feature career, Mamoru Hosada has stuck to a handful of thematic preoccupations. Family in all its complexity; forgiveness over revenge, and an earnest

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Resurrection review – see it on the biggest…

Despite a framing device that vaguely ties its disparate stories together, there’s an extent to which Bi Gan’s Resurrection is essentially a glorified anthology film. But oh,

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If you don’t play, you can’t win: Desert Hearts…

Forty years on, the film is often branded ​‘the lesbian Brokeback Mountain’. Though it’s a rather lazy point of comparison (not least because it predates both

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A Private Life review – a limp and convoluted…

The sight of Jodie Foster speaking fluent French is the most engaging element of this limp and convoluted psychodrama from the usually reliable Rebecca Zlotowski.

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Sirāt review – a truly staggering, major film

Euphoria and devastation are the twin emotional poles that prop up the lopsided big top that is Oliver Laxe’ Sirât, a film about life, death, and

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Diving into the SXSW film line-up

In a landscape where film festivals have had to jostle violently for the attention of sales agents and studios, it helps if you’ve cultivated a specific vibe