All Reviews articles
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Reviews‘>1.5°C Pyropolitics And The New World’ review: Slight but urgent doc observes the human cost of climate change
Austrain filmmaker Lukas Marxt’s study of the 2025 LA wildfires premieres at DOK Leipzig
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Reviews‘Magic Atlas’ review: Chinese-language animation deploys multiple techniques to striking, confounding effect
Sun Xun’s experimental feature plays DOK Leipzig and Tokyo after a Locarno premiere
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Reviews‘Sukiyaki’ review: Tokyo opener is sprawling, feel-good drama about Japanese singer Kyu Sakamoto’s 1963 global hit
Takahisa Zeze’s biopic hits Japanese cinemas on Christmas Day
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Reviews‘Letters From The Silenced Country’ review: Mixed-media documentary proves a raw, disquieting study of Belarusian resistance
Andrei Kutsila’s film plays DOK Leipzig after winning Venice’s Golden Globes Impact prize for documentary
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Reviews‘The Other’s Profile’ review: Unfocused, uneven Italian drama puts influencer culture in the spotlight
Pilar Fogliata and Ginevra Francesconi impress in Francesco Bruni’s Rome premiere
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Reviews‘The Liberation’ review: A remarkable Carrie Coon powers Guy Nattiv’s expertly-observed US cult drama
Lily James, Tracy Letts, Odessa Young and Bella Ramsey also impress in a film based on Nattiv’s own grandmother
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Reviews‘Clayface’ review: The Batman villain gets an edgy spin-off in James Watkins’ gory, predictable body horror
The latest from DC Studios stars Tom Rhys Harries as the Hollywood star turned vigilante
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Reviews‘Ghosts: The Possession Of Button House’ review: Beloved BBC sitcom makes a charming transition to the big screen
The first Ghosts feature reunites the cast with series director Simon Hynd and opens in UK cinemas on October 23
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Reviews‘7 Miles Out’ review: Carol Morley adapts her semi-autobiographical novel into a vibrant study of life in ’70s and ’80s Stockport
Lucy Halliday and Leila Entwistle star in writer/director Morley’s London Film Festival competition premiere
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Reviews‘Flesh And Fuel’ review: A French trucker finds love on the road in sensitive, mature debut
Alexis Manenti and Julian Swiezewski spark in the Zurich Golden Eye-winning feature
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Reviews‘Klara And The Sun’ review: Jenna Ortega stars in Taika Waititi’s overstuffed adaptation of the Kazuo Ishiguro novel
Source: London Film Festival ‘Klara And The Sun’ Dir: Taika Waititi. New Zealand/US/UK. 2026. 116 mins Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2021 novel Klara And The Sun feels well-suited to our times: it describes a polluted, unequal future world through the eyes of Klara, an AI-powered android – an ‘Artificial ...
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Reviews‘Forgotten Island’ review: DreamWorks’ Philippines-set adventure is a vivid celebration of folklore and friendship
’Puss In Boots: The Last Wish’ directors Joel Crawford and Januel Mercado serve up an entertaining family adventure
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Reviews‘Act 3’ review: Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor muse on the nature of storytelling in rich, moving documentary
The filmmakers’ latest non-fiction work premieres in London Film Festival competition
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Reviews‘Whalefall’ review: Breathless survival thriller puts a terrific Austin Abrams right in the belly of the beast
Josh Brolin and Elisabeth Shue also star in Brian Duffield’s crowd-pleasing adaptation of the novel by Daniel Kraus.
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Reviews‘Frank And Percy’ review: Ian McKellen and Roger Allam lift good-natured, syrupy London-set romantic comedy
The film is the latest collaboration between McKellan, director Sean Mathias and writer Martin Sherman
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Reviews‘Hilol’ review: Uzbekistan identity crisis drama makes the most of the country’s striking landscape
Nargiza Bakayeva gives a strong performance in Botir Abdurakhmanov’s Busan competition debut
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Reviews‘Between Two Lovers’ review: Innocuous Japanese polyamory drama benefits from strong cast led by Masami Nagasawa
Tasuku Emoto and Shizuka Ishibashi also star in Nanako Hirose’s Busan competition title
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Reviews‘The Day After Sunday’ review: A weekend in Tokyo reveals difficult truths in Takuya Kato’s stylish third feature
The writer/director’s follow-up to ‘Grown-ups’ and ‘Fly On’ premieres in Busan competition
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Reviews‘The Sea Speaks His Name’ review: Urgent drama explores the dangers and rewards of political activism in 1990s Indonesia
Busan competition premiere reunites director Yosep Anggi Noen with his ‘24 Hours With Gaspar’ star Reza Rahadian
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Reviews‘Wildwood’ review: Animation studio Laika break new ground with dazzling stop-motion adventure
The latest work from the ‘Coraline’ and ‘Kubo’ studio features the voices of Jacob Tremblay, Carey Mulligan and Peyton Elizabeth Lee