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Dead Man's Wire (2025) 92% 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) 86% 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) 90% 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) 95% 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) 92% 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) 30% 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 At the Sea (2026) 35% EDIT “This is the kind of film in which characters express their agonies with bursts of interpretative dancing. It could almost have been cooked up by a big Hollywood studio expressly to discredit the very idea of arthouse cinema.” – Observer (UK) Feb 19, 2026 Full Review The Blood Countess (2026) 82% EDIT “Mischievously but lovingly sending up vampire lore, as well as Huppert’s lofty image, it’s a slight but highly marketable treat.” – New Statesman Feb 19, 2026 Full Review We Are All Strangers (2026) 91% EDIT “This involving, if slightly over-extended, drama isn’t afraid to tug the heartstrings... But it is an intelligent film in a mode of Asian domestic drama thematically adjacent to such auteurs as Hirokazu Kore-eda and Edward Yang.” – Screen International Feb 19, 2026 Full Review Rose (2026) 100% EDIT “On one level, it’s a manifesto for self-invention and for gender equality, with Rose as a sort of domestic Joan of Arc fighting the established order. It’s also a meticulously mounted historical study, and a starkly beautiful one.” – Screen International Feb 19, 2026 Full Review Everybody Digs Bill Evans (2026) 100% EDIT “This is a bold film about a protagonist who barely speaks while everyone talks around him. Lie’s nuanced, mumbling reserve is astonishing; Laurie Metcalf and a bullishly affable Bill Pullman are terrific as his folks.” – New Statesman Feb 19, 2026 Full Review The Red Hangar (2026) EDIT “Scripted by Luis Emilio Guzmán, the film succinctly and with intense control conveys a sense of events happening in a nightmare rush in a world that has changed literally overnight. ” – Screen International Feb 19, 2026 Full Review Nina Roza (2026) 80% EDIT “There's a lot at stake thematically -- both in terms of heritage and identity, and of more specific art-market questions. But the film's ruminative tone and self-consciously moody stylistics make for an overall solemnity that is hard to engage with.” – Screen International Feb 17, 2026 Full Review Queen at Sea (2026) 95% EDIT “More than holding its own alongside other prominent dramas about the ravages of age, Queen at Sea tackles its themes fearlessly, thanks to rigorous execution and a quartet of superb performances.” – Screen International Feb 17, 2026 Full Review Dao (2026) EDIT “Dao’s sheer capaciousness will either pull viewers in completely or deter them, but anyone willing to immerse themselves in its teasing drift between realism and experiment will find it a compelling proposition.” – Screen International Feb 14, 2026 Full Review Only Rebels Win (2026) EDIT “Most successful overall is the interplay between Benrachid and Abbass. He has a warm, gentle demeanour, affectingly portraying an easy-going, tender-hearted but fallible young man, while Abbass gives a characteristically authoritative performance. ” – Screen International Feb 14, 2026 Full Review Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (2025) 98% 3/5 EDIT “There are themes of cultural conflict that the film raises, but is too delicate to fully confront, and the gratingly twinkly score doesn’t help. Still, there is undeniably beauty here — if you can handle it all being a bit watery. ” – Financial Times Feb 12, 2026 Full Review Crime 101 (2026) 88% 4/5 EDIT “The film is manifestly aware of its ancestors, among them the Michael Mann canon, Walter Hill’s The Driver and the Steve McQueen titles that are prominently namechecked. That’s some calibre; Crime 101 pretty compellingly measures up to it. ” – Financial Times Feb 11, 2026 Full Review The Chronology of Water (2025) 90% 3/5 EDIT “The film isn’t entirely compelling — its relentlessness may distance you as much as draw you in... But you have to applaud Stewart and Poots for climbing on to a high board and diving in fearlessly.” – Financial Times Feb 6, 2026 Full Review
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