I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning Review (Cannes Film Festival 2026)
Movies about male friendship are particularly rare, especially working-class ones. In I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning, director Clio Barnard...
Film Festivals
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Her Private Hell Review (2026 Cannes Film Festival)
Ever get the feeling a director just isn’t for you? Watching Her Private Hell, Nicholas Winding Refn’s first film since...
Jim Queen Review (2026 Cannes Film Festival)
Jim Queen (or Jim Queen and the Quest for Chloroqueer, to give it its full title) is a total riot....
Club Kid Review (2026 Cannes Film Festival)
Films written, directed by and starring the same person tend to fall into two camps: horribly mediocre, or worse. Then...
Parallel Tales Review (2026 Cannes Film Festival)
Picture this: you are at the Cannes Film Festival, about to watch a film starring three of France’s most celebrated...
Sanguine Review (2026 Cannes Film Festival)
Sanguine, which translates from French as “blood”, is the newest film from Marion Le Coroller, a director who clearly has...
John Lennon: The Last Interview Review (2026 Cannes Film Festival)
When Cannes announced that there would be a special screening of Steven Soderbergh’s new documentary, John Lennon: The Final Interview ,...
Fatherland Review (2026 Cannes Film Festival)
Paweł Pawlikowski’s Fatherland is undoubtedly one of the most highly anticipated films in competition at this year’s Cannes Film Festival,...
Parasisi Review (2026 Hot Docs Festival)
Parasisi brings us to Kawemhakan. The village, formerly also known as Anapaikë, sits on the border with French Guiana, on...
Affection Review (2026 Overlook Film Festival)
Jessica Rothe shines in Affection, a fascinating yet flawed sci-fi horror mystery from debut director BT Meza. After surviving a...
Drag Review (2026 Overlook Film Festival)
Drag fuses farcical slapstick humour with wince-inducing gore and palm-sweating tension to deliver a highly entertaining and often vicious housebreak...
Rebuilding Review (2026 Manchester Film Festival)
Josh O’ Connor can always be found at the scene of the crime, when that crime is a devastatingly beautiful...
Our Hero, Balthazar (2026 Manchester Film Festival)
If ever there was a movie for our time, it is Our Hero, Balthazar. The film, directed by longtime Safdie...
Chatlines Review (2026 Manchester Film Festival)
You won’t be able to stop crying your heart out for Chatlines, the newest feature film from Lloyd Eyre-Morgan and...