In the second instalment of Dag Johan Haugerud’s Oslo trilogy, changing a catheter proves just as intimate as spontaneous sex

Freakier Friday, which reunites the Oscar-winner with Lindsay Lohan, is good clean fun. But its themes mean a lot to an actor who has had her share of personal trials

A quartet of movies released in the week of August 8th, 2025

The tragic cycle is composed of the same beats that defined such superior films as The Godfather and Animal Kingdom

Nisha Ganatra’s zinger-laden sequel smartly reunites the original stars as body-swapping mother and daughter

A quartet of movies released in the week of August 1st, 2025

Latest iteration of A24’s ‘grief is the real horror’ subgenre leans heavily on body horror to drive emotion

At its best, the Danish drama thrives in the fuzzy intersection of memory, identity and making stuff up

For her role in Petra Volpe’s feature the German actor shadowed nurses in Zurich but found even in wealthy Switzerland working conditions are tough

A quartet of movies released in the week of July 25th, 2025

Ariella Mastroianni is mesmerising as woman struggling with fractured family and fragmented psyche

Sweeping intergenerational study of a fractured German family somehow finds a rhythm

The son of Richard O’Brien has made a documentary about his father’s camp musical creation that became a monster cult hit

Jonás Trueba’s film initially evokes mature classics, before veering into playfully modernist territory

Athina Rachel Tsangari’s first English-language film, adapted from the Jim Crace novel, is meticulously crafted yet oddly two-dimensional