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It Must Be Heaven (2019) 94% EDIT “The consistent theme of It Must Be Heaven is that the world, not just Elia’s home, is a funny place, but the film is funny in a way that feels tired, often mirthless, and – as reflected in his screen persona – just a little testily supercilious.” – Sight & Sound May 14, 2026 Full Review Fatherland (2026) 96% EDIT “In period drama Fatherland, Polish writer-director Pawel Pawlikowski achieves a film that, in essence, is imposingly heavyweight, yet is executed with rare lightness (not to say concision, at a refreshing 82 minutes).” – Screen International May 14, 2026 Full Review Deerskin (2019) 88% EDIT “A brisk black comedy featuring flourishes of farce. ” – Sight & Sound May 14, 2026 Full Review The Witches of the Orient (2021) 93% EDIT “All this is fun and often exciting, especially as it builds towards the team’s Olympic triumph. ” – Sight & Sound May 14, 2026 Full Review Pig (2021) 97% EDIT “Sarnoski deserves credit for audacity, using the promise of a generic Cage actioner to sneak in what proves to be a contemplative, lyrical film about solitude, self-sufficiency and the real value of taste. ” – Sight & Sound May 13, 2026 Full Review Butterfly Jam (2026) 59% EDIT “An uneven mix of melodrama, eccentricity and hyper-male boisterousness never entirely convinces.” – Screen International May 13, 2026 Full Review The Electric Kiss (2026) 59% EDIT “A certain theatrical stiffness, politely choking the film’s bolder possibilities, is likely to restrict appeal to outlets catering to traditional Francophile constituency.” – Screen International May 12, 2026 Full Review Romería (2025) 89% 5/5 EDIT “A roméria can mean a fiesta or a pilgrimage and this joyous and melancholic journey partakes of both. It has a magnetic lead in Garcia: her quizzical alertness radiates throughout...” – Financial Times May 7, 2026 Full Review The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026) 78% 2/5 EDIT “Beloved zingers from the 2006 collection are reworked for fond recognition, but that only makes DWP2 all the more stale, no matter how many personality cameos (Donatella Versace et al) it is sprinkled with.” – Financial Times Apr 30, 2026 Full Review Hokum (2026) 89% 4/5 EDIT “As the title suggests, this is a sly, self-mocking affair — but convincingly macabre too. ” – Financial Times Apr 30, 2026 Full Review Wild Foxes (2025) 94% 3/5 EDIT “Wild Foxes doesn’t quite transcend the medium range of current European psychological realism. But it shows some distinction in highlighting the footwork rather than the punch.” – Financial Times Apr 30, 2026 Full Review Pompei: Below the Clouds (2025) 98% 5/5 EDIT “Rosi’s most beautiful film yet, Below the Clouds is intensely eloquent about the power of cinema to preserve the past, even while it is being eroded day by day.” – Financial Times Mar 26, 2026 Full Review Splitsville (2025) 84% 2/5 EDIT “Running multiple variations on the vagaries of desire, and the unsoundable depths of male insecurity, Splitsville juggles perilously with cliché.” – Financial Times Mar 26, 2026 Full Review Dead Man's Wire (2025) 91% 4/5 EDIT “This is the most compelling film in years from a director whose work has veered unpredictably between artistic audacity...Van Sant benefits massively from Austin Kolodney’s script, and from a terrific cast. ” – Financial Times Mar 19, 2026 Full Review Heel (The Good Boy) (2025) 88% 2/5 EDIT “...The Good Boy is ultimately more serious-minded than truly caustic, Komasa too sober a director to really let rip with the story’s blacker aspects. ” – Financial Times Mar 19, 2026 Full Review Resurrection (2025) 91% 5/5 EDIT “It’s a perplexing, sometimes infuriating work, but an entrancing one — a magnificent hothouse anomaly.” – Financial Times Mar 12, 2026 Full Review Everybody To Kenmure Street (2026) 100% 4/5 EDIT “At a time when battles are raging to preserve the right to protest, and in the year of Minnesota citizens uniting to resist ICE, this episode of neighbourhood history has international resonance.” – Financial Times Mar 12, 2026 Full Review The Love That Remains (2025) 94% 5/5 EDIT “What makes the film special, besides the beauty of Pálmason’s own camerawork, is the way it is structured: in fragmentary style, focusing on imagery rather than narrative, resembling a filmed mood board or a visual poem with densely patterned rhymes.” – Financial Times Mar 12, 2026 Full Review Chronicles from the Siege (2026) EDIT “The film offers an intense, dispassionate tapestry of life, death and the contrasting elements of courage and deep human imperfection -- but it also crackles, buoyantly and sometimes explicitly, with the affirmative energies of cinema.” – Screen International Mar 10, 2026 Full Review Flies (2026) EDIT “Overall, the stylistic execution makes for a combination of austerity, warmth and dogged taciturnity that’s not unlike Olga herself.” – Screen International Mar 10, 2026 Full Review Project Hail Mary (2026) 94% 3/5 EDIT “Project Hail Mary is shamelessly calculating and somewhat spurious in its fabrication of childlike wonder, but then, people said that about Close Encounters of the Third Kind and E.T.” – Financial Times Mar 10, 2026 Full Review Apollo 13 (1995) 92% EDIT “Curiously, gripping as it is, Apollo 13 is a non-drama. It's a suspense story whose outcome we already know... What appeals is the inexorability of it all -- the sense that there only can be one outcome, and that it will be good.” – New Statesman Feb 27, 2026 Full Review Scream 7 (2026) 31% 1/5 EDIT “...the main problem is that we have seen it all done before, over and over and with more gusto, for three decades now — as the film unwisely keeps reminding us. ” – Financial Times Feb 26, 2026 Full Review Wolfram (2025) 96% EDIT “Warwick Thornton delivers a film at once visually awe-inspiring and narratively under-fuelled. A quasi-sequel to his 2017 magisterial ‘outback Western’ Sweet Country­, it lacks that film’s taut narrative logic and sense of peril.” – Screen International Feb 24, 2026 Full Review Rosebush Pruning (2026) 27% EDIT “It’s also lusciously styled -- there are few directors as creative with colour as Aïnouz. But it’s a bloodless affair, its shock tactics utterly mechanical. ” – Screen International Feb 19, 2026 Full Review
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