Features and reviews
Discover the latest from the BFI, the UK’s lead organisation for film, television and the moving image.
The Eight Mountains is a sublime saga of male friendship in the high Alps
Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch’s adaptation of Paolo Cognetti’s novel tracks two boys’ deepening bond as men apart from society and at one with nature.
By John Bleasdale
Enys Men: Mark Jenkin entrances with lichen on a phantasmic Cornish stone island
By Virginie Sélavy
Emergency digs high racial satire from broad frat-buddy jeopardy
By Jason Anderson
RoboCop 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
Tokyo 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
Conversations with Friends dampens Sally Rooney’s love quadrangle
By Ruairí McCann
The Essex Serpent draws Claire Danes and Tom Hiddleston into its misty late-Victorian maws
By Kate Stables
The Quiet Girl: silence turns tender for a young Irish family outcast
By Katie McCabe
The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson is a harrowing Australian western told through a feminist, indigenous lens
By Ben Nicholson
Everything Everywhere All At Once shows life as an fathomless multiverse
By Ben Walters
Vortex: Gaspar Noé divides and punctures a couple in their dotage
By Adam Nayman
This Much I Know To Be True shows Nick Cave live and unchained
By Leigh Singer
We’re All Going to the World’s Fair is a film that’s as captivating and scattered as the internet itself
By Nicole Flattery
Doctor Strange in The Multiverse of Madness: An inventive trip through the Marvel universe
By Kim Newman
The Velvet Queen takes viewers on a quasi-mystical, indulgent search for a snow leopard
By Jonathan Romney
The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent: A tongue-in-cheek caper that breaks on the rocks of self awareness
By Ben Walters
Happening is a gripping film about the realities of abortion in the 1960s
By Catherine Wheatley
Revolution of Our Times: A powerful tribute to Hong Kong’s protest movement
By Tony Rayns
The Northman is not your average swords-and-shields epic
By Beatrice Loayza
Prayers for the Stolen captures the threat of an omnipresent drug cartel
By Maria Delgado
You Are Not My Mother: an unsettling slice of folk horror set in the Dublin suburbs
By Katie McCabe
The Andy Warhol Diaries is a sublime meditation on queerness, art and talent
By Nicole Flattery
Compartment No. 6 forces a chalk-and-cheese couple into a cramped train carriage
By John Bleasdale
True Things: an uneasy psychological character study
By Rebecca Harrison