All articles by Nikki Baughan – Page 5
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Reviews‘Extra Geography’ review: Two teen girls attempt to learn the language of love in uneven UK debut
Molly Manners’ boarding school drama is based on a short story by Rose Tremain
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Reviews‘The Incomer’ review: Domhnall Gleeson seeks common ground in quirky Scottish comedy
Louis Paxton’s debut feature makes the most of its remote Scottish island setting
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FeaturesSeven Oscar nominations talking points: voters love international, Warner Bros soars and ‘Wicked 2’ sinks
The steadily increasing international outlook of the US Academy Awards has been confirmed once again.
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Reviews‘28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’ review: Jack O’Connell, Ralph Fiennes fuel blistering horror
Nia DaCosta confidently takes the reigns for bold, brutal instalment of the longstanding horror franchise
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Reviews‘Becoming Victoria Wood’ review: Tender doc celebrates talent and tenacity of pioneering UK comic
Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders and Maxine Peake are among friends and colleagues paying tribute to Wood’s comedy genius
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FeaturesFilms of the year 2025: Nikki Baughan
Nikki Baughan is Screen International’s reviews editor.
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Reviews‘The Housemaid’ review: Amanda Seyfried and Sydney Sweeney play dirty in schlocky adaptation
Paul Feig directs a dull, style-over-substance adaptation of Freida McFadden’s viral novel
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Reviews‘Goodbye June’ review: Helen Mirren and impressive cast ground Kate Winslet’s sentimental debut
Mirren and Winslet star alongside Andrea Riseborough, Toni Collette, Johnny Flynn and Timothy Spall in Netflix tear-jerker
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Reviews‘Mailin’ review: Lyrical Argentinian doc explores the nature of memory in the aftermath of abuse
Maria Silvia Esteve’s visceral second feature makes its bow in IDFA competition