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I Hate Suzie review: Billie Piper’s tabloid target enters meltdown mode
Piper plays an erratic actor stumbling from one crisis to another in this provocative and spiky pseudo-autobiographical drama.
By Hannah McGill
Disclosure review: the progress and missteps of trans representation on screen
By Juliet Jacques
Little Girl review: a cinematic act of kindness to trans children
By Juliet Jacques
Miss Juneteenth review: a former beauty queen chases the American Dream
By Melanie Hoyes
Schemers review: scrappy metal memoir hits the wrong key
By Matthew Taylor
Never Gonna Snow Again review: a magical mystery masseur in the land of the bourgeoisie
By John Bleasdale
Enola Holmes review: Sherlock’s teen sister loosens some Victorian stuffing
By Thomas Flew
Little Birds review: Anaïs Nin erotic encounters in 1950s Tangier
By Andrew Collins
Tesla review: sparks of brilliance fail to carry this eccentric biopic
By Leila Latif
The Devil All the Time review: a deadening slab of American gothic
By Henry K Miller
Away review: more science and less soap would make this space opera soar
By Trevor Johnston
Bill & Ted Face the Music review: the Gen X dad dudes unleash their daughters
By Thomas Flew
Ratched review: Ken Kesey’s Big Nurse gets botched surgery
By Hannah McGill
Nocturnal review: a stripped-down portrait of British coastal malaise
By Tim Hayes
White Riot review: the story of rock’s anti-racist revival
By Sukhdev Sandhu
The Eight Hundred review: a puffed-up reprise of the defence of Shanghai
By Tony Rayns
Cuties review: preteen pressures in the age of lost innocence
By Winnie M Li
The Human Voice review: Pedro Almodóvar goes short and free
By Elisabet Cabeza
Get Duked! review: a rampant Highland ramble
By Kaleem Aftab
Real review: rebuilding Black lives in Portsmouth
By Trevor Johnston
She Dies Tomorrow review: Kate Lyn Sheil’s death drive goes viral
By Anton Bitel
The Painted Bird review: a stately, pitiless vision of innocence crushed by war
By Kim Newman
The Roads Not Taken review: Sally Potter grapples with the power of the past
By Violet Lucca
Koko-di Koko-da review: animals, nursery rhymes and murders
By Philip Kemp
The New Mutants review: X-Men spinoff traps super-teens in a haunted house horror
By Kim Newman
Mulan review: live-action Disney remake feels more retrograde than the original
By Kambole Campbell
I’m Thinking of Ending Things review: Charlie Kaufman’s new nightmare surpasses all expectations
By Trevor Johnston
Les Misérables review: 24 hours of violence in the Paris streets
By Catherine Wheatley
Sócrates review: a Brazilian teenager battles loss and homophobia
By Matthew Barrington