Four new films to see this week: Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, How to Train Your Dragon, Tornado and Lollipop
A quartet of movies released in the week of June 13th, 2025
Jane Austen Wrecked My Life director Laura Piani: ‘I didn’t want to do a film about a woman who is saved by a man’
The French director’s Austen-influenced romcom with a clever spin was inspired by a stint working at Paris bookshop Shakespeare and Company
Tornado review: A singular, if rarely easy, watch about double-crossing rogues on the rampage
John Maclean returns to the austere storytelling that defined Slow West, his well-regarded debut, in a film of stark silences and oppressive atmospherics
Lollipop review: This socially aware film is maddening, urgent viewing
Daisy-May Hudson’s first scripted feature builds on her documentary Half Way’s poignant account of the challenges faced by a single mum and the family’s encounters with bureaucracy
‘I couldn’t resist the fact that the sharks weren’t the monsters’: Sean Byrne on making the thriller Dangerous Animals
The cult Australian director’s latest movie pits the oceans’ apex predators against human savagery
Your Monster: Audacious debut swerves from romcom to horror. Be prepared for it to cast a spell
Writer-director’s auspicious debut sustains audacious tonal balancing act
Dangerous Animals review: Jaws meets Wolf Creek in this watery Ozploitation movie
Not especially gripping or intriguing, but it rattles along as effective B-movie gore
Four new films to see this week
Sundance hit The Ballad of Wallis Island is a cult comedy fave in the making. Plus a strong French melodrama, a troubled British couple on the move, and another routine Karate Kid retooling
The Ballad of Wallis Island review: Is this crowd-pleaser one of the best British films of all time?
Richard Curtis thinks so, and the melancholic, wry and character-driven comedy has already developed a cult following
The Ballad of Wallis Island: ‘Anyone can hypothetically write Carey Mulligan into their little thing. She was top of our list’
Tim Key and Tom Basden’s new film has been almost two decades in the making. It’s well worth the wait
Karate Kid: Legends review – The villain’s an unruly MMA fighter named Conor. Insert your own joke
The latest addition to the franchise lacks the fun of earlier films in the series
Cannes 2025: Julian Assange makes for unlikely new star, walkouts at warts-and-all Shia LaBeouf film - and Brigitte Bardot is back
Cannes Diary: Plus reviews of Alpha, Highest 2 Lowest and Pillion
When the Light Breaks review: Emotionally astute drama is a bonsai miniature of overwhelming grief
Elín Hall is a revelation, her blank features signalling multitudes as she tries to get through a period of sudden mourning
Paul Mescal tries hard but ultimately The History of Sound is flimsy
Cannes Festival: Adaptation of Ben Shattuck’s musically themed short story brings Mescal together with Josh O’Connor
Cannes 2025: An emotional screening of My Mom Jayne, and Kristen Stewart’s ‘big Cannes energy’
Cannes Diary: Plus reviews of The Chronology of Water, Nouvelle Vague and Die, My Love