Nikki Baughan
Based in London
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Reviews’Brace Your Heart’ review: Quietly powerful exploration of trauma and community in a remote Swedish mountain village
Amanda Kernell follows Charter and Sámi Blood with nuanced tale of a female Sámi reindeer herder struggling to make her mark
Reviews‘Stuffed’ review: Jodie Comer and Harry Melling bond over taxidermy in bold, bracing gothic musical
The debut of UK filmmaker Theo Rhys premieres in Toronto’s Discovery strand
Reviews‘The Echo Chamber’ review: Andrea Pallaoro turns Bernardo Bertolucci’s final script into precise, somewhat odd study of love and dependency
Alicia Vikander, Luca Marinelli and Susan Sarandon star in London-set Venice competition title
Reviews‘Primetime’ review: Robert Pattinson is ‘To Catch A Predator’ host Chris Hansen in visually striking, dramatically contrived thriller
Merritt Wever is also memorable in Lance Oppenheim’s feature debut, which bows in Venice competition
Reviews‘Our Share Of Sand’ review: A move from the UK to rural India proves a painful rite-of-passage in quietly powerful debut
Shalini Adnani’s level-headed Venice Critics Week titles features a strong performance from newcomer Maya Mehta
Reviews‘Wild Horse Nine’ review: John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell command Martin McDonagh’s potent 1970s character study
The director’s Easter Island-set fifth feature premieres in Venice competition and looks set for awards attention
Reviews‘My Notes On Mars’ review: Lili Horvat opens Venice’s Giornate degli Autori with genre-coded tale of love, desire and control
Mackenzie Davis and Rupert Friend star in this enigmatic English-language relationship drama set in Hungary.
Reviews‘Pretty Babies’ review: Hollywood dreams turn into a nightmare in gritty, uneasy US debut
Tyler-Marie Evans’ Edinburgh competition premiere follows starry-eyed two high-schoolers attempting to make it to LA
Reviews‘Snapshot’ review: A killer stalks Victorian London in inventive but stilted period found-footage horror shot through a pinhole lens
Joseph Archer’s feature debut premieres in Edinburgh before heading to FrightFest
Reviews‘Concrete Land’ review: Sensitive observational doc follows an exiled Afro-Palestinian-Bedouin family in Jordan
Asmahan Bkerat’s intimate feature was filmed over eight years and premieres at Locarno
Reviews‘The End Of Oak Street’ review: Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor face a prehistoric threat in fun, fast-paced creature feature
David Robert Mitchell’s follow-up to ’Under The Silver Lake’ and ’It Follows’ opens in US and UK cinemas on August 14
Reviews‘Ancestral Beasts’ review: Indigenous Canadian horror effectively draws on the spectre of generational trauma
Writer/director Tim Riedel’s creature feature premiered at Fantasia
Reviews‘Black Zombie’ review: Fascinating doc reclaims the zombie from Western culture and returns it to its African roots
Maya Annik Bedward’s film won Fantasia’s Northern Excellence Award for Canadian filmmaking
FeaturesSix talking points from the Venice 2026 lineup: Studios and female directors go missing
In Competition, just one title out of 20 is directed by a woman.
Reviews‘No Rest For The Wicked’ review: Atmospheric Danish queer drama makes the most of its 1860s Faroe Islands setting
Kasper Kalle’s Fantasia Cheval Noir title stars Pilou Asbaek and newcomer Egor Venned
Reviews‘The Siege Of Paradise’ review: Gar O’Rourke follows ‘Sanatorium’ with gentle, thought-provoking look at the impact of mass tourism
O’Rourke’s enjoyable documentary travels to the tourist hot spot of Cinque Terre, on Italy’s northwestern coast
Reviews‘The Lost Children Of Tuam’ review: Sensitive, unfussy drama follows investigation into Irish mother and baby home
Liam Neeson produces Frank Berry’s respectful drama, which stars Monica Dolan as Galway historian Catherine Corless
Reviews‘You’ll Never Believe Who’s Dead’ review: A Sligo family attempts to pull off a Christmas heist in raucous Irish black comedy
Dallan Shovlin’s entertaining debut stars Ardal O’Hanlon, Michelle Fairley and Stephen Rea, and premieres at Galway Film Fleadh
Reviews‘Learning To Breathe Under Water’ review: Winning Irish heartwarmer takes a child’s eye view of healing from grief
Rory Kinnear, Maria Bakalova and Ezra Carlisle impress in Rebekah Fortune’s well-observed feature
Reviews‘Rain Catcher’ review: A London street photographer loses his grip on reality in intriguing, twisty neo-noir
Dudley O’Shaughnessy impresses in Michele Fiascaris debut feature, premiering in Karlovy Vary’s Proxima competition.