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Rose Plays Julie is a mythic thriller about women and violence
Desperate Optimists’ potent new film poses ethical dilemmas and undercuts Eurowestern narrative traditions with every twist of the plot and shift in tone.
By So Mayer
Gunpowder Milkshake is a frothy glass of female-led action fun
By Nikki Baughan
Prisoners of the Ghostland sends Nic Cage on an uninspired action movie mission
By Tony Rayns
Martyrs Lane invites an angelic, ghostly child into a family home
By Josh Slater-Williams
The White Lotus satirisises the empty lives of a Hawaiian resort’s wealthy clientele
By Kate Stables
Spencer is a portrait of a royal on the verge of a nervous breakdown
By John Bleasdale
Uprising looks back to the trauma and fury stoked by the 1981 New Cross Fire
By Alex Ramon
Shorta follows Danish police playing good cop, bad cop
By Adam Nayman
Paris Calligrammes takes an autobiographical trip back to 1960s Paris
By Hannah McGill
Demonic exorcises psychodramatic fears through virtual reality
By Anton Bitel
Candyman reawakens old horrors in gentrified Cabrini-Green
By Kaleem Aftab
Souad tears apart two Egyptian sisters
By Ela Bittencourt
Sabaya documents the dangerous rescue of enslaved Yazidi women
By Becca Voelcker
Pig follows Nicolas Cage sniffing out his porcine companion’s whereabouts
By Jonathan Romney
1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything is more than just a nostalgia-fest
By Leigh Singer
Sophie: A Murder in West Cork presents the facts of an ongoing Irish investigation
By Michael Brooke
Dead Flash proves Bertrand Mandico is best tolerated in smaller doses
By Jessica Kiang
The Legionnaire examines racial tensions amongst Roman riot police
By John Bleasdale
She Will unearths feminine trauma buried by time
By Caitlin Quinlan
Wildland pulls at the family ties of a Danish crime dynasty
By Katherine McLaughlin
Wendy takes flight with a new take on the Peter Pan story
By Farran Smith Nehme
I’m Your Man test drives the perfect robot partner
By Leila Latif
New Order clashes the corrupt against the exploited in a Mexican dystopia
By Maria Delgado
Mad God writhes through an underworld drenched in bodily fluids
By John Bleasdale
CODA sings a feel-good, crowdpleasing, familiar tune
By Jessica Kiang
Josee, the Tiger and the Fish fails to make a splash with a rote teen romance
By Andrew Osmond
Zola turns a legendary Twitter thread into unforgettable cinema
By Anna Smith
Boys from County Hell reawakens a bloodthirsty beast under an Irish bypass
By Kim Newman
The Suicide Squad regroups its gang of DC supervillains for a US cover-up mission
By Kim Newman