Nikki Baughan
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Reviews‘The Fox’ review: Olivia Colman lends her voice to underpowered offbeat Australian satire
Dario Russo’s debut feature also stars Jai Courtney, Emily Browning and Sam Neill.
Reviews‘Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man’ review: Cillian Murphy returns as Tommy Shelby in rousing period actioner
Barry Keoghan and Rebecca Ferguson also star in feature set in 1940, six years after the events of the show’s sixth season
Reviews‘The Bride!’ review: Jessie Buckley and Christian Bale spark in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s high-voltage horror
Gyllenhaal’s audacious remake of 1935’s ‘Bride Of Frankenstein’ also stars Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard and Penelope Cruz
Reviews‘Bucks Harbor’ review: Delicately-woven tapestry of life in rugged New England fishing community
Photojournalist-turned-filmmaker Pete Muller’s documentary plays True/False Film Fest following Berlin premiere
Reviews‘Sad Girlz’ review: Two Mexico City teens cope with the fallout from sexual violence in sensitive, authentic debut
Fernanda Tovar’s assured friendship drama won Berlin’s Generation 14Plus strand
Reviews‘Ivan & Hadoum’ review: Low-key Spanish LGBTQ+ debut explores issues of class and identity
Ian de la Rosa’s accomplished film premiered in Berlin’s Panorama, where it won the Teddy award for Best Feature
Reviews‘A Child Of My Own’ review: Intriguing Maite Alberdi Netflix doc on Mexican fake pregnancy case
The Berlinale Special screening follows ‘The Mole Agent’ and ‘Eternal Memory’
Reviews‘Sleep No More’ review: A decaying Indonesian wig factory hides a dark secret in Edwin’s outré horror
The filmmaker’s follow-up to Locarno winner ’Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash’ bows as a Berlin Special Screening
NewsBerlin film critics poised for wow moment after first four days
’Nightborn’ and ‘Rose’ are among the titles that have impressed so far.
Reviews‘Nightborn’ review: Hanna Bergholm follows ‘Hatching’ with audacious motherhood horror
Seidi Haarla and Rupert Grint star in the director’s English-language Berlin competition title
Reviews‘A Prayer For The Dying’ review: Johnny Flynn and John C. Reilly fight for survival in American West
Berlin Perspectives title is a striking, if tonally uneven debut from Dara Van Dusen
Reviews‘Yellow Letters’ review: Ilker Catak follows ‘The Teachers’ Lounge’ with powerful Turkish drama
Ozgu Namal and Tansu Bicer star in Catack’s meticulously-calibrated Berlin competition title
Reviews‘Sunny Dancer’ review: Bella Ramsey heads confident and upbeat UK teen drama
George Jaques’ second feature also includes Ruby Stokes, Daniel Quinn-Toye and Neil Patrick Harris
Reviews‘Silenced’ review: Damning Australian doc explores the legal backlash to the #MeToo movement
Filmmaker Selina Miles focuses on several high-profile women who have faced defamation cases, including Amber Heard
Reviews‘To Hold A Mountain’ review: Tender, immersive doc follows mountain life in Montenegro
Sundance World Cinema Documentary Grand Prize winner proves both intimate and universal
Reviews‘Shelter’ review: Jason Statham is a killer with a conscience in muscular UK-set actioner
Bill Nighy, Naomi Ackie, Daniel Mays and Bodhi Rae Breathnach also star for director Ric Roman Waugh
Reviews‘Frank & Louis’ review: Petra Volpe follows ‘Late Shift’ with authentic English-language prison drama
Kingsley Ben-Adir and Rob Morgan head intimate story of a dementia care programme in a US prison
Reviews‘Undertone’ review: A podcaster hears something haunting in immersive Canadian horror
Nina Kiri stars in Ian Tuason’s impressive debut, which bows in Sundance Midnight
Reviews‘Saccharine’ review: Natalie Erika James follows ‘Relic’ with potent weight loss body horror
Midori Francis impresses as a medical student going to extreme lengths for the perfect body
Reviews‘Public Access’ review: Fascinating study of US community TV boom exec-produced by Benny Safdie
David Shadrack Smith’s Sundance title uses archive footage to recall the glory days of public access television