All articles by Nikki Baughan
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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Reviews‘Evil Dead Burn’ review: Latest in long-running horror franchise has lots of gore, little of substance
Infested director Sebastien Vanicek takes the reins for this ultra-violent domestic horror
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Reviews‘Bearhunting’ review: A real-life 19th century bear hunt fuels underpowered German satire
The second feature from Peter Meister will release in Germany in August, following plays at Munich and Shanghai
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Reviews‘Echo Of Tomorrow’s War’ review: Germany’s past seems destined to repeat itself in timely family drama
Nicolas Ehret’s poignant feature debut bows in Munich’s New German Cinema strand
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Reviews‘Minions & Monsters’ review: The half-pint heroes return for a gleefully anarchic animation set in 1920s Hollywood
Christoph Waltz, Allison Janney and Jesse Eisenberg lend their voices to the latest instalment in Illumination’s hit franchise
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Reviews‘Leviticus’ review: Striking performances and a balanced tone elevate unnerving Australian LGBTQ+ horror
Joe Bird and Stacy Clausen impress in Adrian Chiarella’s feature debut
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Reviews‘Labrador - Autopsy Of Silence’ review: Slow-burn Tribeca winner is emotionally-rich Canadian character study
Newcomer Christopher Angatookalook impresses in Rodrigue Jean’s study of guilt, justice and Indigenous identity
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Reviews‘Jail Time Records’ review: Impactful documentary explores the transformative power of music in a Cameroon jail
Dione Roach and Steve Happi’s Tribeca-winning film is executive produced by Taika Waititi and Rita Ora