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The Crossing uses striking animation techniques but its story struggles to pick up momentum
Director Florence Miailhe’s animated refugee tale is beautifully rendered with oil paint on glass, but doesn’t successfully cohere as a drama.
By Alex Dudok de Wit
Venom: Let There Be Carnage serves up a strangely affecting superhero sequel
By Kim Newman
Flee is an astonishing animated portrait of a young refugee
By Alex Davidson
Il Buco takes viewers on a meditative dive through the caves of Calabria
By Ben Nicholson
“You throw Black people in a western and it’s like sci-fi”: Director Jeymes Samuel on The Harder They Fall
By Christina Newland
Curse of The Chippendales explores the gender dynamics of stripping in the 1980s
By Rebecca Harrison
Our Men: a refined and quietly impressive military drama
By Nicole Davis
Boiling Point captures a chef’s night from hell filmed in one continuous shot
By Philip Concannon
Succession returns for a third season with another spectacular Roy family feud
By Caspar Salmon
Mike Leigh: the naked truth
By Andy Medhurst
The Harder They Fall: a brilliantly over the top revenge tale
By Leila Latif
Squid Game is a winning addition to the burgeoning dystopia subgenre
By Anne Billson
The North Water takes viewers on a brutal voyage to the Arctic
By Hannah McGill
No Time to Die brings Daniel Craig’s tenure as Bond to a disappointing end
By Kim Newman
The Many Saints of Newark can’t escape the baggage of The Sopranos
By Henry K Miller
Gallivanting with Andrew Kötting, Big Granny and little Eden
By Iain Sinclair
Rose Plays Julie is a mythic thriller about women and violence
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
30 great films playing at BFI London Film Festival 2021
30 great films playing at BFI London Film Festival 2021Michael Kenneth Williams, forever Omar in The Wire (1966-2021)
By Leila Latif
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
Jean-Paul Belmondo: the face of the New Wave, the body of popular cinema (1933-2021)
By Ginette Vincendeau
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
“It was a solid Black middle-finger to the racist American film industry”: Merawi Gerima on Haile Gerima
By Merawi Gerima
“Giving voice to the common individual”: Zak Ové on Horace Ové
By Zak Ové