The Visitor Review (KVIFF 2025)
From the outset, it’s a poem. Starting off as a well-shot home video, becoming a feeling, ending up as a...
Film Festivals
Alongside our in-depth reviews from some of the world’s biggest film festivals, you’ll also find the latest film news, exclusive features, trailers, interviews, and everything in between. We cover festivals from across the globe, including the Glasgow Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Fantasia International Film Festival, and FrightFest, bringing you the latest from the world of cinema all year round.
The Love That Remains Review (KVIFF 2025)
Walking down the brick-paved streets of Karlovy Vary, I was struck by the odd poster for The Love That Remains....
How Come It’s All Green Out Here Review (KVIFF 2025)
A sober, gently resonant take on individuality caught within the intangible heritage of family. Nikola is a Serbian director who...
Welded Together Review
‘Welded Together’ is a story both resonant in subject and impressionable in its uniqueness. Katya is only now, at the...
Cielo Review (SXSW London 2025)
Part of the joy that comes with festival season is seeing the best of what world cinema has to offer,...
A Missing Part Review (SXSW London 2025)
A Missing Part plays as part of this year's inaugural SXSW London... There is no concept of shared custody in...
The Surfer Review
We’re pretty comfortable with Nicolas Cage being weird on-screen now, but there’s something sinister that lies in Lorcan Finnegan’s The...
The Wedding Banquet Review
Director Andrew Ahn has made a virtue out of a necessity. Re-working Ang Lee’s early 90s Oscar nominated The Wedding...
To The West, In Zapata Review (Visions du Réel Festival 2025)
There are few cinematic works that convincingly argue for the enduring relevance of tales. When one such film emerges, it...
Redux Redux Review (Overlook Film Festival 2025)
High-concept Sci-Fi shocker blending narrative elements of The Terminator and Groundhog Day to entertaining effect. Irene is a grieving mother...
Restless Review (Glasgow Film Festival 2025)
Restless sees a cake-baking empty nester locking horns with an anti-social party beast in this engrossing kitchen sink horror drama...
Four Mothers Review (BFI Flare 2025)
The second feature from director Darren Thornton, Four Mothers, is a heartwarming film that just about stays on the right...
Sanatorium Review (CPH:DOX 2025)
Seldom do we encounter a film (let alone documentary) coming from Ukraine that does not directly and urgently address the...
Zlatan’s Nose Review (CPH:DOX 2025)
‘Zlatan’s Nose’ started as a crime-investigating documentary, then turned into fiction, then a portrait, then observational film. What an insightful...