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The Sweet East: a risky, uncompromising road movie
A high school student falls in with strange and sinister characters as she drifts through America’s East Coast in a surreal picaresque from Sean Price Williams that revels in ideological chaos.
By Catherine Wheatley
The Sweet East: a risky, uncompromising road movie
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Mothers’ Instinct: maternal grief turns deadly in this intense but predictable psychological thriller
By Kate Stables
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Opus: Sakamoto Ryuichi performs his swan songs
By Sam Wigley
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Late Night with the Devil: an underwhelming horror with an ingenious concept
By Adam Nayman
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Baltimore: thrilling heist movie tells the story of Rose Dugdale, a British heiress turned IRA member
By Katie McCabe
From the Sight and Sound archive
“Scorsese has become the threnodist of frustration”: After Hours reviewed in 1986
By Richard Combs
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Immaculate: Rosemary’s Baby reimagined as a giallo in a convent
By Anton Bitel
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The Delinquents: a bank robbery movie that plays like an existential epic
By Adam Nayman
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Robot Dreams: Pablo Berger’s touching silent animation shows how swiftly a bond of affection can mark a life
By Alex Dudok de Wit
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Exhuma: Korean occult horror excavates multiple layers of weirdness
By Anton Bitel
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The New Boy: realism is undercut by magic in Warwick Thornton’s Outback fable
By Jonathan Romney
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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