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All articles by Nikki Baughan
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Reviews‘Hen’ review: Greek life seen from the perspective of a plucky chicken makes for a compelling drama
Hungarian director György Pálfi’s emotive film takes the point of view of a hen escaping an industrial farm to reflect on humanity
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Reviews‘Good Boy’ review: Dog’s eye-view haunted house horror has plenty of bite
US filmmaker Ben Leonberg’s impressive debut is told from the point of view of its canine protagonist
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Reviews‘Franz’ review: Agnieszka Holland’s creative portrait of Czech writer Franz Kafka
Holland takes an unconventional approach to the biopic, which hits familiar narrative beats
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Reviews‘A Big Bold Beautiful Journey’ review: Colin Farrell and Margot Robbie head schmaltzy romcom
Two troubled souls take a road trip to the past in director Kogonada’s follow-up to ’Columbus’ and ‘After Yang’
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Reviews‘To The Victory!’ review: Toronto’s Platform winner blends fact and fiction in a near-future Ukraine
Writer/director Valentyn Vasyanovych takes the central role of a filmmaker desperate to stay in his homeland
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Reviews‘Blue Heron’ review: Contemplative Canadian debut sees a filmmaker confront her difficult past
Sophy Romvari’s accomplished first feature dramatises her own childhood experiences
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Reviews‘Spinal Tap II: The End Continues’ review: Mockumentary sequel proves gentle swansong for fictional rockers
Director Rob Reiner reunites with stars Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer for follow-up to 1984 classic
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Reviews‘The Long Walk’ review: Powerful Stephen King adaptation journeys through bleak dystopian America
Francis Lawrence directs uncompromising survival horror starring David Jonsson, Cooper Hoffman and Charlie Plummer
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Reviews‘I Swear’ review: Robert Aramayo is exceptional as real-life Tourette’s campaigner John Davidson
Kirk Jones directs this stirring biopic of Davidson, previously the subject of documentaries including ‘John’s Not Mad’
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Reviews‘Good Boy’ review: Stephen Graham and Andrea Riseborough anchor off-kilter morality tale
The pair play a married couple determined to rehabilitate a wayward boy in Jan Komasa’s intriguing Toronto premiere
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Reviews‘Steve’ review: Cillian Murphy impresses at the heart of Netflix’s Max Porter adaptation
The actor reteams with ‘Small Things Like These’ director Tim Mielants for propulsive Toronto premiere
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Reviews‘My Father And Qaddafi’ review: Libyan filmmaker Jihan explores the 1993 abduction of her politician father
Moving documentary looks at what happened to Mansur Rashid Kikhia, an opponent of Colonel Qaddafi’s brutal regime
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Reviews‘Silent Rebellion’ review: A young woman learns to find her voice in 1940s rural Switzerland
Lila Gueneau stars in Marie-Elsa Sgualdo’s accomplished debut which plays out in the aftermath of rape
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Reviews‘Dead Man’s Wire’ review: Bill Skarsgard impresses in Gus Van Sant’s real-life crime caper
The director’s Venice title dramatises the 1977 kidnapping of a mortgage broker by disgruntled landowner Tony Kiritsis
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Reviews‘Roqia’ review: Atmospheric Algerian debut filters civil war through a genre lens
Writer/director Yanis Koussim turns Algeria’s Black Decade into an effective possession narrative
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Reviews‘Rose Of Nevada’ review: George MacKay and Callum Turner star in Mark Jenkin’s atmospheric time-travel tale
Jenkin’s follows up ‘Bait’ and ’Enys Men’ with perhaps his most accessible film to date
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Reviews‘After The Hunt’ review: Julia Roberts heads Luca Guadagnino’s problematic #MeToo drama
Ayo Edebiri, Andrew Garfield and Michael Stuhlbarg also star in this Yale University-set Venice title
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Reviews‘Bugonia’ review: Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons are dynamite in explosive Yorgos Lanthimos thriller
The director’s Venice competition title is a gloriously gonzo, sharply satirical chamber piece
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Reviews‘On The Sea’ review: Helen Walsh follows ‘The Violators’ with sensitive Welsh LGBTQ+ drama
The novelist/filmmaker’s second feature stars Barry Ward and Lorne MacFadyen
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Reviews‘The Legend Of The Happy Worker’ review: Thomas Haden Church and Josh Whitehouse star in uneven Lynchian fable
Adaptation of S.E. Feinberg’s play is directed by Duwayne Dunham, longtime David Lynch editor