All articles by Nikki Baughan
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
Pleasures and pains of the flesh: women, physical autonomy and the New French Extremity
By Nikki Baughan
Harry Wootliff on True Things: “I wanted to show a woman who is in touch with her sexuality”
By Nikki Baughan
What to watch at Borderlines 2022: 10 films to look out for
By Nikki Baughan
Hope addresses the realities of cancer with great sensitivity
By Nikki Baughan
Strange new worlds: the craft of Denis Villeneuve
By Nikki Baughan
Rose Plays Julie: Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor on their provocative identity thriller
By Nikki Baughan
Gunpowder Milkshake is a frothy glass of female-led action fun
By Nikki Baughan
Lisey’s Story gives an author’s grieving wife fantasies and nightmares
By Nikki Baughan
Rare Beasts takes a hatchet to romcom pipe dreams
By Nikki Baughan
True Mothers is a sympathetic and heart-wrenching adoption drama
By Nikki Baughan
The power of fear: 13 memorable British horror debuts
By Nikki Baughan
ZeroZeroZero is a globetrotting narcotics thriller where power is the real drug
By Nikki Baughan
A year of lockdown: the screen culture that got us through it
By Henry Barnes, Whelan Barzey and others
Ethos offers up Turkish coffee and cultural contradictions
By Nikki Baughan
PVT Chat sees digital dominatrix fantasy collide with grim New York reality
By Nikki Baughan
Is this the real life? Behind the scenes on simulation theory doc A Glitch in the Matrix
By Nikki Baughan
Christmas and nostalgia: the films that capture that special feeling
By Nikki Baughan
Education shows how Britain taught Black boys to fail
By Nikki Baughan
Body of Water: How Lucy Brydon’s debut captures the loneliness of living with anorexia
By Nikki Baughan
On the Rocks review: Sofia Coppola explores mommy and daddy issues
By Nikki Baughan
The outsider: Claire Oakley on her Cornish caravan park thriller Make Up
By Nikki Baughan
About bloody time: Saint Frances is a comedy tackling tired taboos about female experience
By Nikki Baughan
In Clemency, death row walls in Alfre Woodard’s warden
By Nikki Baughan
Fanny Lye Deliver’d: Maxine Peake and Thomas Clay on their 17th-century folk thriller
By Nikki Baughan
Watching Women Make Film – How to tackle Mark Cousins’ 14-hour road movie
By Nikki Baughan
Kitty Green on The Assistant: “We all know what happens behind that closed door”
By Nikki Baughan
Vivarium: a smart satire on suburban soullessness
By Nikki Baughan
System Crasher: a traumatised nine-year-old girl falls through the cracks
By Nikki Baughan