★★★★☆ With Luca Guadagnino's terrific Challengers, the acclaimed director of Call Me By Your Name brings us the sub-genre we never knew we needed: the erotic tennis thriller.

★★★★☆ In Alex Garland's Civil War, a group of journalists embark on a road trip to interview the US President amidst a second American Civil War, while exploring media's dehumanizing relationship with ...

★★★★☆ An acerbic social satire, Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Silva's latest reflects a cultural malaise rooted in cultural ennui. More than a casual swipe at modern social trends, Rotting in the Sun ...

★★★★☆ Deep under the ice of the Bering Strait, a tactical exercise on a Russian submarine goes badly wrong. As the bodies of the doomed sub float to the surface, something sinister is hidden inside ...

★★☆☆☆ All good things, they say, must end. Unfortunately for the DC Extended Universe, so too do the messy, mediocre and baffling. A basically entertaining, but flimsy and shallow object, The Flash ...

★★★★☆ The first of a two-parter, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is bigger, bolder and grander than its predecessor, and with little serious competition from Marvel or DC's live-action factories, ...

★★★★★ Returning to South Korea after being adopted in France as a baby, Freddie (Park Ji-min) embarks on an epic journey of self discovery and reinvention. His third feature, Davy Chou’s Return to ...

★★★☆☆ Lola Quivoron's debut fiction feature is an affecting and vital hybrid picture, part crime drama, part character study. Rodeo follows the exploits of Julia (Julie Ledru), a somewhat delinquent ...

After 2011’s Scream 4, the franchise looked to have finally run out of steam before last year’s self-styled legacy “requel” revitalised the series with a new writer-director team and a new cast. Now, ...

More than twelve months after "the slap", the 95th Academy Awards are almost upon us. The recent success of Parasite and Drive My Car appears to have opened the door for more international features to ...

★★★☆☆ As she drives down a narrow, poorly lit road through a forest, a woman is momentarily distracted and veers into the path of an oncoming lorry. Swerving, she avoids catastrophe and stops the car ...

It's hard not to draw parallels with the fatigue we're all feeling and the current landscape of cinema, not least a 'best of' list that this year so strongly reflects a sense of social anxiety, ...