All articles by Amber Wilkinson
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Reviews‘Roma Elastica’ review: Marion Cotillard anchors fractured, excessive Italian 1980s drama
Bertrand Mandico’s Cannes Midnight title also stars Noemie Merlant and Isabella Ferrari
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Reviews‘Women On Trial’ review: Charlotte Gainsbourg leads a persuasive dramatisation of landmark 1972 French abortion trial
Lauriane Escaffre and Yvo Muller revisit the historic Bobigny case through the eyes of lawyer and activist Gisele Halimi
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Reviews‘Too Many Beasts’ review: Alexis Manenti and Ella Rumpf anchor a genre-bending French crime story
Sarah Arnold’s debut feature caper makes its bow in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight
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Reviews‘La Gradiva’ review: Observant French debut captures volatile youths on an Italian school trip
Marine Atlan’s Cannes Critics’ Week title is set against the landscape of Pompeii
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Reviews‘Words Of Love’ review: Hafsia Herzi stars in energetic, lighthearted French family drama
Rudi Rosenberg’s Un Certain Regard title follows a young girl’s attempts to connect with her absent father
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Reviews‘What Comes From Sitting In Silence?’ review: Uneven study of Mumbai’s first female Islamic court
Sophie Schrago’s fly-on-the-wall doc plays Visions du Reel’s National Competition
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Reviews‘Closure’ review: Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival winner is sombre, humanistic study of loss
Michal Marczak’s documentary follows a Polish father as he searches for his missing son
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Reviews‘The Way Elsewhere’ review: Meditative, abstract hybrid doc follows a trio of Athens taxi drivers
Photojournalist turned filmmaker Eirini Vourloumis’s debut documentary premieres at Thessaloniki
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Reviews‘We Are Stardust’ review: Absorbing doc follows Norwegian citizen scientist on hunt for cosmic dust
Filmmaker Elisabeth Rasmussen joins musician Jon Larsen on his 10 year search for valuable micrometeorites
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Reviews‘Just Look Up’ review: US climate activism doc shows passion, but covers familiar ground
Joshua Oppenheimer and Adam McKay executive produce lightweight portrait of protest group Climate Defiance
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Reviews‘Replica’ review: Fascinating if limited study of Chinese women embarking on AI relationships
Chouwa Liang’s Thessaloniki Documentary Festival premiere is a follow-up to her 2022 short ‘My AI Lover’
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Reviews‘Derek Vs Derek’ review: A British farming feud roots gentle environmental documentary
James Dawson’s appealing, insightful film bows in Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival
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Reviews‘Sentient’ review: Powerful, challenging exploration of biomedical animal testing
Tony Jones’ hot-button film plays Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival after a Sundance premiere
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Reviews‘Forever Is Now’ review: Immersive, balanced portrait of Ireland Green Party leader Eamon Ryan
Neasa Ni Chianain’s fly-on-the-wall documentary follows 18 months in Ryan’s professional and personal life
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Reviews‘The Education Of Jane Cumming’ review: Real-life 19th-century scandal inspires elegant, toothless period drama
Sophie Heldman’s second feature is set in an all-girls Scottish boarding school
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Reviews‘In A Whisper’ review: Hiam Abbass is magnetic in sensitive Tunisian LGBTQ drama
Lelya Bouzid’s nuanced Berlin competition title is set over six days of mourning
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Reviews‘Chasing Summer’ review: Josephine Decker’s latest is smart, sexy Texas-set crowdpleaser
Comedian Iliza Shlesinger writes and stars in the latest feature from the ’Madeline’s Madeline’ and ‘Shirley’ director
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Reviews‘Knife: The Attempted Murder Of Salman Rushdie’ review: Alex Gibney documents the author’s moving road to recovery
Film follows the acclaimed writer and his wife as they heal from the 2022 knife attack on Rushdie
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Reviews‘Gail Daughtry And The Celebrity Sex Pass’ review: Zoey Deutch heads limp LA-set sex parody
‘Wet Hot American Summer’ director David Wain returns to Sundance with old-school romp
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Reviews‘Soul Patrol’ review: Powerful portrait of the first Black special operations unit in Vietnam
Filmmaker J. M. Harper follows up ’As We Speak’ with moving look at the cost of war