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Luzzu casts its net with a devoted Maltese fisher as storm clouds gather
Alex Camilleri’s impressive debut evokes the traditions and dwindling options for proud fisher and family man Jesmark as the tide retreats on his way of life.
By Nikki Baughan
Holy Spider ensnares us in an Iranian psycho killer’s gruesome misogyny
By John Bleasdale
Triangle of Sadness: Ruben Östlund’s savage castaway satire finds humanity all at sea
By Christina Newland
Alex Garland on Men, his shapeshifting rural chiller: “All folk horror owes The Wicker Man something”
By Lou Thomas
Crimes of the Future: insurgent surgery with David Cronenberg’s plastic people
By Giovanni Marchini Camia
Aftersun peers through rosy girlhood memories to a father’s hidden gloom
By Leigh Singer
New ways of being: how queer Asian films are moving beyond identity politics
By Ren Scateni
Jerry Lee Lewis: Trouble in Mind lets the Killer try to shoot straight
By Leigh Singer
EO: Jerzy Skolimowski’s donkey fable decries human greed and folly
By Christina Newland
Three Thousand Years of Longing teems with Idris Elba’s Djinn-soaked tales
By Leigh Singer
Armageddon Time: James Gray reflects on his New York boyhood and loss of racial innocence
By Giovanni Marchini Camia
One Fine Morning: Léa Seydoux steps out as a Mia Hansen-Løve life-pilgrim
By Sophie Monks Kaufman
Men encircles Jessie Buckley’s grieving widow with Rory Kinnear’s dead ringers
By Kim Newman
Streaming watchlist: 10 LGBTQ+ films from East and Southeast Asia
By Christopher Brown and Yi Wang
The Eight Mountains is a sublime saga of male friendship in the high Alps
By John Bleasdale
Enys Men: Mark Jenkin entrances with lichen on a phantasmic Cornish stone island
By Virginie Sélavy
5 things to watch this weekend – 20 to 22 May
By Samuel Wigley
Emergency digs high racial satire from broad frat-buddy jeopardy
By Jason Anderson
Mark Jenkin’s new film Enys Men to be distributed by the BFI
Mark Jenkin’s new film Enys Men to be distributed by the BFIRoboCop review: a flamboyant indictment of American society
By Sean French
Top Gun: Maverick shows Tom Cruise can still get his rockets off
By Kim Newman
The Innocents stages the moral growth of children with a supernatural twist
By Anton Bitel
Final Cut! makes a self-satisfied muddle out of its zombie-horror spoof
By Christina Newland
Announcing July 2022 at BFI Southbank: Satyajit Ray, Glenda Jackson, In the Black Fantastic and more
Announcing July 2022 at BFI Southbank: Satyajit Ray, Glenda Jackson, In the Black Fantastic and moreTokyo Vice gives its crime-world probings the Michael Mann stamp
By Jason Anderson
Benediction: Terence Davies’ Siegfried Sassoon portrait is a film of waning power
By Alex Ramon
A-ha: the Movie finds Norway’s synth-pop legends still haunted by the fame dream
By Simran Hans
Pleasures and pains of the flesh: women, physical autonomy and the New French Extremity
By Nikki Baughan