All articles by Nikki Baughan

Pleasures and pains of the flesh: women, physical autonomy and the New French Extremity

Harry Wootliff on True Things: “I wanted to show a woman who is in touch with her sexuality”

What to watch at Borderlines 2022: 10 films to look out for

Hope addresses the realities of cancer with great sensitivity

Strange new worlds: the craft of Denis Villeneuve

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”

Vivarium: a smart satire on suburban soullessness

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