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All articles by Amber Wilkinson
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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
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Reviews‘The Gallerist’ review: Natalie Portman and Jenna Ortega crackle in Cathy Yan’s rollicking romp
Yan’s smart third feature makes its debut in Sundance Premieres
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Reviews‘Wicker’ review: Olivia Colman and Alexander Skarsgard are made for each other in charming love story
Eleanor Wilson and Alex Huston Fischer’s second feature also stars Peter Dinklage, Elizabeth Debicki and Richard E Grant
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Reviews‘The Moment’ review: Singer Charli XCX lampoons her Brat-era fame in chaotic mockumentary
Alexander Skarsgard and Rosanna Arquette also star in Sundance premiere
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Reviews‘American Doctor’ review: Hard-hitting doc follows three US doctors on the ground in Gaza
Poh Si Teng’s film proves an emotional gut-punch portrait of life during conflict
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Reviews‘Carousel’ review: Chris Pine and Jenny Slate rekindle a lost love in endearing relationship drama
Rachel Lambert follows ‘Sometimes I Think About Love’ with authentic look at mid-life romance
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Reviews‘Everybody To Kenmure Street’ review: Emma Thompson exec produces immersive Glasgow protest doc
Felipe Bustos Sierra explores 2021 demonstration through interviews, archive footage and reenactments
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FeaturesFilms of the year 2025: Amber Wilkinson
Amber Wilkinson is an Edinburgh-based journalist with more than 20 years’ experience. She has been writing for Screen since 2019.
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Reviews‘A Place For Her’ review: Strong, immersive social drama unravels in a Parisian women’s support centre
Mélisa Godet’s debut feature is powered by an authentic approach and a raft of strong performances
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Reviews‘Behind The Palm Trees’ review: Formulaic Moroccan love triangle drama bolstered by strong performances
Meryem Benm’Barek’s second feature makes its debut in Marrakech competition
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Reviews‘The Woman Who Poked The Leopard’ review: Intense portrait of Ugandan activist Stella Nyanzi
Patience Nitumwesiga profiles the exiled feminist poet in scattergun DOK Leipzig title
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Reviews‘Another Birth’ review: Lyrical Tajikistan drama sees a young girl search for a mythical creature
Busan competition title is first in intended trilogy from US-based Tajik filmmaker Isabelle Kalandar
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Reviews‘Winter Of The Crow’ review: Lesley Manville propels gripping Polish Cold War thriller
The British star captivates as a professor on a deadly trip to 1980s Warsaw in Kasia Adamik’s gritty drama
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Reviews‘Our Time Will Come’ review: Sarajevo documentary winner is study of interracial love in Vienna
Ivette Löcker follows an Austrian woman and a Gambian man as they navigate their relationship