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The New Boy: realism is undercut by magic in Warwick Thornton’s Outback fable
A young indigenous boy with perplexing powers is forcibly brought to a Christian orphanage led by the alcoholic Sister Eileen (Cate Blanchett) in Warwick Thornton’s sketchy, fragmented drama.
By Jonathan Romney
The New Boy: realism is undercut by magic in Warwick Thornton’s Outback fable
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Banel & Adama: Ramata-Toulaye Sy’s elemental love story has the air of a parable
By Annabel Bai Jackson
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Drive-Away Dolls: a lesbian road trip comedy that feels authentic to the 1990s but stuck there, too
By Simran Hans
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Monster: Koreeda Hirokazu’s elegant and imaginative expression of childhood
By Guy Lodge
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Imaginary: a sufficiently creepy domestic ghost story
By Kim Newman
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High & Low: John Galliano: a thoughtful, expansive portrait of a disgraced fashion designer
By Nick Bradshaw
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Origin: Ava DuVerney’s book biopic presents an ambitious study of caste systems
By Kate Stables
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Copa 71: the fascinating story of the unofficial Women’s World Cup
By Rachel Pronger
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The Dead Don’t Hurt: a ruminative state-of-the-nation western
By Anton Bitel
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Lisa Frankenstein: patchy zombie teen horror goes gravedigging in 1980s pop culture
By Anton Bitel
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Suspended Time: an affectingly vulnerable lockdown chronicle
By Nicolas Rapold
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A Different Man: a discomfiting but darkly hilarious story of a man with two faces
By Jessica Kiang
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Dune: Part Two: an impressive sci-fi war saga
By Kim Newman
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Janet Planet: Annie Baker’s warm, understated portrayal of a mother-daughter relationship
By Lou Thomas
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Four Daughters: the facts and fictions of a Tunisian family’s history blur in this fascinating hybrid documentary
By Jonathan Romney
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Black Tea: a labyrinthine multicultural love story
By Nick James
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Abiding Nowhere: a beautiful addition to Tsai Ming-liang’s Walker film series
By Nick James
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Pepe: Pablo Escobar’s philosophical hippo takes viewers on a radically inventive journey
By Jonathan Romney
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Architecton: a daunting look at the rubble of our existence
By Nicolas Rapold
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Spaceman: Adam Sandler and an alien spider embark on a mission to Jupiter in this dull sci-fi
By Jessica Kiang
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Dahomey: Mati Diop’s otherworldly documentary gives voice to looted African artefacts
By Rachel Pronger
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Small Things like These: this grimy, moving portrait of 1980s Ireland knows the power of restraint
By Jessica Kiang
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Perfect Days: Wim Wenders captures the beauty of the everyday in his best fiction film since Wings of Desire
By Nick James
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Out Of Darkness: a brutal, horrifying entry in the canon of prehistory on screen
By Kim Newman
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Memory: early-onset dementia and past traumas complicate a new relationship in Michel Franco’s warmest film to date
By Alex Ramon
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This is Me…Now: A Love Story: a musical extravaganza fuelled by fairytales, metaphors, and obsessions
By Elena Lazic
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River: a two-minute time loop traps a group of hospitality workers in this breezy Japanese sci-fi
By Josh Slater-Williams
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Madame Web: an unnecessary but lightly likeable addition to the Spider-verse
By Kim Newman
From the Sight and Sound archive
“Dazzling entertainment that wants us to luxuriate in violence as we condemn it”: Fight Club reviewed in 1999
By Charles Whitehouse