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Exit 8 review: An elegant horror that forces the unfortunate hero’s paranoid mindset on the viewer
Trapped in an endless passageway, the protagonist must scan his surroundings for anomalies
Michael review: Two hours of cosplay karaoke – and absolutely no suggestion of impropriety
Jaafar Jackson does a good job channelling his late uncle, but this is a sanitised, corporatised cash-in
Primavera director Damiano Michieletto: ‘Wexford is in my heart. It’s an important part of my story’
Crafting a film, he notes, is an adjacent but separate skill set from staging opera
Four new films to see this week: Lee Cronin’s The Mummy, Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Wizard of the Kremlin, The Blue Trail
Jack Reynor, Jennifer Lopez, Paul Dano, Alicia Vikander and Jude Law feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of April 16th, 2026
The Blue Trail review: Ageing rebel’s spirit reawakens in defiant journey down the Amazon
Gabriel Mascaro’s exuberant film blends dystopian sci-fi with real-world concerns about elder care
The Wizard of the Kremlin review: Jude Law lends gravitas to this clunky drama
Too often the film feels like a prestige television series compressed into an unwieldy feature length
Couture director Alice Winocour: ‘Angelina Jolie was a punk when she was younger. She still has that spirit’
The French director immersed herself in the fashion world for her upcoming movie, which stars Jolie as a film-maker who learns during Paris Fashion Week that she has breast cancer
Four new films to see this week: Father Mother Sister Brother, Undertone, You, Me & Tuscany, The Stranger
Tom Waits, Cate Blanchett, Halle Bailey, Benjamin Voisin and Rebecca Marder feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of April 10th, 2026
Father Mother Sister Brother review: The lowest point of Jim Jarmusch’s wildly uneven film is sadly the Dublin section
Jim Jarmusch’s anthology of three family dramas is wildly uneven – Cate Blanchett and Vicky Krieps are miscast
Undertone review: Creepy Catholic iconography adds to unease of debut director’s eerie chiller
Ian Tuason shot the film in his own childhood home, where he cared for both parents at the end of their lives
The Stranger director François Ozon: ‘The Cure are one of my favourite groups. It was good to put Killing an Arab in the context of the book’
The French film director on the challenges and appeal of adapting Albert Camus’s tricky novella
Four new films to see this week: Fuze, Kim Novak’s Vertigo, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, Amélie
Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Kim Novak and Audrey Tautou feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of April 3rd, 2026
Amélie review: Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s hit remains a uniquely Gallic whimsy
Audrey Tautou brings warmth and fragility to Paris-set shaggy character study, re-released and remastered in 4K for its 25th anniversary
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie: A breathless, galaxy-spanning scramble. At least it’s short
A-listers from Jack Black to Glen Powell crash in and out of a story that ricochets between tropes and recycled gaming platforms
Four new films to see this week: Four Prosecutors, DJ Ahmet, Orwell 2+2=5 and Below the Clouds
Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Alexander Filippenko, Arif Jakup and Agush Agushev feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of March 27, 2026
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