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Lady (2026) B EDIT “If “Lady” is more successful as a series of interconnected vignettes, than as one fluid narrative, it has a moving ending up its sleeve.” – IndieWire Jan 23, 2026 Full Review The Stimming Pool (2024) EDIT “The film elides conventional descriptions. It is something truly collective – radical in ways that challenge not just neurodiverse stereotypes, but the film industry’s standard ways of telling a story. ” – Sight & Sound Nov 5, 2025 Full Review Sentimental Value (2025) 97% EDIT “Scene-setting unfolds at an assured and pleasurable pace, offering opportunities for all of the actors to set out the parameters of their performances as Trier delivers riffs on familiar film industry mores.” – Sight & Sound Nov 4, 2025 Full Review Frankenstein (2025) 85% 5/5 EDIT “Guillermo del Toro handles Mary Shelley’s canonical text with the tenderness of a butterfly, exulting in the author’s wisdom and sense of high tragedy while bringing his own steampunk spin to the material.” – Little White Lies Oct 17, 2025 Full Review Bugonia (2025) 88% 3/5 EDIT “Stone and Plemons’ verbal battles of wits are worth the price of admission, even if the script co-written by Will Tracy is overly reliant on culture war jargon. ” – Time Out Oct 15, 2025 Full Review Silent Friend (2025) 100% EDIT “Gergely Pálos’s cinematography makes us feel the intimacy of watching someone who is watching you. ” – Little White Lies Sep 5, 2025 Full Review Duse (2025) 67% EDIT “The film unfolds via a series of vignettes that have a tendency to go into convoluted details, labouring every beat of meandering conversations between peripheral characters. ” – Little White Lies Sep 3, 2025 Full Review The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) 95% A- EDIT “Hania has form in metafiction, however this is a step up even from the queasily gripping “Four Daughters.” The gravity of the subject has sharpened her storytelling instincts.” – IndieWire Sep 3, 2025 Full Review The Stranger (2025) 88% B- EDIT “The level of craft present in creating the mood is transfixing and the film works as a fever dream... But as an explicit adaption of the book by a mind in the process of birthing existentialism, it does not quite have the requisite courage or strangeness.” – IndieWire Sep 2, 2025 Full Review Cover-Up (2025) 98% 5/5 EDIT “He emerges as a flawed human rather than a bastion of perfect judgement. This is not a perfect documentary either... Yet perfection is not the point when something impossible has been bottled: it's something called the truth.” – Little White Lies Sep 1, 2025 Full Review At Work (2025) B+ EDIT “Full of throwaway insights into the micro-climate of a particularly hellish economic landscape, “At Work” is an engaging story about a man trying to write an engaging story with a diamond of hard-won wisdom at its core. ” – IndieWire Aug 29, 2025 Full Review Ghost Elephants (2025) 100% B EDIT “For those willing to piece the picture together from its most glorious sections, this is an affectionate and affection-inducing pursuit of real animals and unreachable dreams. ” – IndieWire Aug 28, 2025 Full Review Young Mothers (2025) 95% B+ EDIT “A great deal of mastery is present in the balancing of disparate storylines and the blending of contrasting emotional landscapes. Individual insecurity is offset by release-valve relationships in a film that...is stronger than it looks.” – IndieWire May 24, 2025 Full Review Resurrection (2025) 89% C+ EDIT “It feels for long stretches like [Resurrection] has been designed to lock us out of our own brains, forcing us to wade through the treacly sludge of bored incomprehension amidst the nagging suspicion that we are not so cineliterate after all. ” – IndieWire May 24, 2025 Full Review Woman and Child (2025) 71% B+ EDIT “A few structural issues threaten to tip the balance from cinematic melodrama into TV soap as the bad news keeps on coming, but Izadyar’s sustained emotional conviction carries the vision onwards. ” – IndieWire May 22, 2025 Full Review The History of Sound (2025) 70% 2/5 EDIT “Hermanus gestures towards a sweeping story and in the process loses the pulse of the material that is there. As the window dressing is lavishly built up, the love story itself slips away.” – Independent (UK) May 22, 2025 Full Review A Private Life (2025) 81% EDIT “ Foster finds small moments to bring to life and Auteuil is afforded some charming moments, however the rest of the cast is frittered away in a forgettable flick that is much more filler than killer.” – Little White Lies May 21, 2025 Full Review The Little Sister (2025) 83% EDIT “This is a character study about a character that remains out of view.” – Little White Lies May 18, 2025 Full Review Nouvelle Vague (2025) 91% 2/5 EDIT “Full of inside cinema jokes while, on the flip side, offering a film history 101 class, Linklater has not worked through the contradictions in his approach. ” – Little White Lies May 18, 2025 Full Review Die My Love (2025) 74% 3/5 EDIT “Each of Ramsay’s previous films, save Ratcatcher, had source texts with knotty plots to scaffold her visions. Here, she brings out the big guns visually and in Lawrence’s performance too fast and Grace’s unhinged behaviour lacks the edge of surprise.” – Independent (UK) May 17, 2025 Full Review Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk (2025) 98% EDIT “This is a slight, ambling documentary that now has a permanent shadow over it. Its leading lady deserved a stronger film and a longer life.” – IndieWire May 17, 2025 Full Review Eddington (2025) 68% 4/5 EDIT “This is Aster’s funniest film to date, and makes use of an ever expanding and shifting cast to dot the 150-minute runtime with well-observed comic details and visual payoffs. ” – Independent (UK) May 16, 2025 Full Review The Plague (2025) 97% B+ EDIT “This is a film that harnesses its many offbeat and potent powers in service of a unique strain of reassurance. I left feeling lighter and more able to unmask.” – IndieWire May 16, 2025 Full Review Case 137 (2025) 92% B EDIT “The great Léa Drucker is -- this year -- proving that she can play restrained and responsible adults... As Stéphanie, she convinces as a focused and intelligent professional with an easy charm that papers over the script’s disinterest in her inner life.” – IndieWire May 15, 2025 Full Review Last Breath (2025) 79% 4/5 EDIT “The deep, dark subaqueous world becomes the stage for a gripping survival drama. Parkinson and cinematographer Nick Remy Matthews understand this underworld realm as a place of gauzy slowness where dread unfolds at a measured pace.” – Time Out Mar 13, 2025 Full Review
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