All articles by Nikki Baughan

Rose Plays Julie: Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor on their provocative identity thriller

Gunpowder Milkshake is a frothy glass of female-led action fun

Lisey’s Story gives an author’s grieving wife fantasies and nightmares

Rare Beasts takes a hatchet to romcom pipe dreams

True Mothers is a sympathetic and heart-wrenching adoption drama

The power of fear: 13 memorable British horror debuts

ZeroZeroZero is a globetrotting narcotics thriller where power is the real drug

A year of lockdown: the screen culture that got us through it

Ethos offers up Turkish coffee and cultural contradictions

PVT Chat sees digital dominatrix fantasy collide with grim New York reality

Is this the real life? Behind the scenes on simulation theory doc A Glitch in the Matrix

Christmas and nostalgia: the films that capture that special feeling

Education shows how Britain taught Black boys to fail

Body of Water: How Lucy Brydon’s debut captures the loneliness of living with anorexia

On the Rocks review: Sofia Coppola explores mommy and daddy issues

The outsider: Claire Oakley on her Cornish caravan park thriller Make Up

About bloody time: Saint Frances is a comedy tackling tired taboos about female experience

In Clemency, death row walls in Alfre Woodard’s warden

Fanny Lye Deliver’d: Maxine Peake and Thomas Clay on their 17th-century folk thriller

Watching Women Make Film – How to tackle Mark Cousins’ 14-hour road movie

Kitty Green on The Assistant: “We all know what happens behind that closed door”

Kitty Green on The Assistant: “We all know what happens behind that closed door”

Vivarium: a smart satire on suburban soullessness

Vivarium review: a smart satire on suburban soullessness

Five reasons to watch election drama The Perfect Candidate

System Crasher: a traumatised nine-year-old girl falls through the cracks

Midnight Traveller review: home movies in exile

The best TV series of 2019