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4/5
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Nouvelle Vague
(2025)
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Alexa Dalby
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It’s fascinating and historically accurate as far as anyone can tell: you feel you can see film history in the making. It’s Linklater’s labour of love. A must-see for all those interested in the cinema.
Posted Jan 27, 2026
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3/5
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H Is for Hawk
(2025)
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Alexa Dalby
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Foy does a superb job of capturing Helen’s emotional journey and clearly put in the work with the bird handling as she certainly convinces. She has a lot of material to sink her teeth into.
Posted Jan 20, 2026
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4/5
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It Was Just an Accident
(2025)
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Alexa Dalby
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Like Vahid, Panahi is generous. His filmmaking concentrates on morality without showiness.
Posted Dec 05, 2025
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3/5
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Pillion
(2025)
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Alexa Dalby
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The cinematography by Nick Morris is stunning and conveys both the restriction of BDSM and the freedom of biking on the open road.
Posted Nov 17, 2025
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4/5
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Dragonfly
(2025)
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Alexa Dalby
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I don’t know if it’s really a horror film, though there’s a sense of menace, but it’s a must-see.
Posted Nov 03, 2025
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2/5
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Odyssey
(2025)
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Alexa Dalby
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Hopefully Odyssey is a satire. It’s put together like a cut and shut, when two halves of different, crash-damaged cars are welded together to create a whole car.
Posted Nov 03, 2025
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4/5
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Urchin
(2025)
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Alexa Dalby
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Now we know what it feels like to be inside the head, with its highs and lows, of a recovering addict in contemporary urban Britain.
Posted Oct 06, 2025
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4/5
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The Librarians
(2025)
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Alexa Dalby
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The title makes these unassuming women seem like super-heroes, which the documentary shows they are.
Posted Sep 26, 2025
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3/5
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Paul and Paulette Take a Bath
(2024)
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Alexa Dalby
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It seemed like a great idea but it didn’t work for me, even as an imaginative twist on the romcom. Not even a comic one.
Posted Sep 04, 2025
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4/5
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Late Shift
(2025)
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Alexa Dalby
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Late Shift is full of building tension as the shift wears on and you feel something awful is going to happen, partly due to the atmospheric music soundtrack...the everyday details of hospital nursing and the patients are really gripping, never boring.
Posted Jul 29, 2025
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Sound of Falling
(2025)
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Alexa Dalby
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...[Sound of Falling is] an exhilarating experience, frustrating at times, but in the best, most challenging way. If Terence Davis and David Lynch made a movie together, it would look and sound like this.
Posted May 14, 2025
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3/5
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Four Mothers
(2024)
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Alexa Dalby
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...a charming and funny, heart-warming, rather cosy Irish take on getting old and being gay...
Posted Apr 03, 2025
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3/5
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Misericordia
(2024)
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Alexa Dalby
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Misericordia is a strange mixture of sex, death and anti-religion...
Posted Mar 28, 2025
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3/5
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The Stimming Pool
(2024)
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Alexa Dalby
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[The Stimming Pool] gives an unusual insight into what it means to be neurodivergent and the special edge it gives to creativity.
Posted Mar 28, 2025
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4/5
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When Fall Is Coming
(2024)
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Alexa Dalby
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The film has all the teasing and overturning of expectations that you have come to expect from Ozon, together with an element of gayness.
Posted Mar 24, 2025
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4/5
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On Falling
(2024)
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Alexa Dalby
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[On Falling is] full of subtle details – reading them gives a picture of a kind of life in Britain today, and what it’s like for someone trying hard, failing and falling through the cracks.
Posted Mar 12, 2025
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3/5
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The Message
(2025)
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Alexa Dalby
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It’s a strange film, somehow compelling in its mystery.
Posted Feb 21, 2025
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4/5
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Paternal Leave
(2025)
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Alexa Dalby
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Paternal Leave is an emotional coming of age film made more intense by the excellent acting of Juli Grabenhenrich as a determined, also adrift, 15-year-old trying to find her own path.
Posted Feb 19, 2025
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4/5
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Maria
(2024)
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Alexa Dalby
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...an incredible performance by Angelina Jolie as the iconic Maria Callas.
Posted Jan 15, 2025
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4/5
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A Complete Unknown
(2024)
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Alexa Dalby
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...a non-showy, well-written and well-acted biopic that avoids standard biopic tropes.
Posted Jan 15, 2025
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3/5
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From Ground Zero
(2024)
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Alexa Dalby
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It’s almost too much to bear, though somewhat sanitised and personalised from what you see in news reports.
Posted Jan 10, 2025
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3/5
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The Universal Theory
(2023)
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Alexa Dalby
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It’s amazing, absorbing, dreamlike, much too long, cleverly done and it enjoys the journey rather than the destination.
Posted Jan 10, 2025
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4/5
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La Luna
(2023)
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Alexa Dalby
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Billed as a comedy, this is questionable, as the film’s underlying very serious themes are the battle between Muslim tradition and modern society, domestic violence, attitudes to women and women’s independence.
Posted Jan 10, 2025
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4/5
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Under the Volcano
(2024)
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Alexa Dalby
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A day trip to a volcano is a potent symbol.
Posted Jan 10, 2025
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4/5
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The Taste of Mango
(2023)
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Alexa Dalby
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It may be slight in length but it packs a powerful punch for freedom for women worldwide.
Posted Jan 10, 2025
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4/5
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Memories of a Burning Body
(2024)
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Alexa Dalby
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Watch this and weep for women’s lives... Memories of a Burning Body is an incredibly moving docufiction.
Posted Nov 22, 2024
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3/5
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The Convert
(2023)
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Alexa Dalby
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The Convert is an uneven but enjoyable, angry epic by a director with a robust anti-colonial, pro-first-nation worldview, particularly pertinent now as Charles III is controversially touring Australia.
Posted Nov 22, 2024
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4/5
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The Crime Is Mine
(2023)
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Alexa Dalby
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Another exceptional film from Ozon.
Posted Oct 21, 2024
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Mother Vera
(2024)
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Alexa Dalby
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This documentary is a beautiful, atmospheric monochrome portrait of Mother Vera, a nun in a Belarusian convent in the freezing winter snow.
Posted Oct 21, 2024
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3/5
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Aïcha
(2024)
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Alexa Dalby
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Aïcha is a gripping story about the evolution of a woman and it has a very serious centre about the state of Tunisian society.
Posted Oct 21, 2024
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3/5
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Who Do I Belong To
(2024)
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Alexa Dalby
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Who Do I Belong To includes many other threads, which makes it seem unfocused with a scattergun approach – though still searing, atmospheric (thanks to an overly insistent, portentous score by Peter Venne) and effective.
Posted Oct 21, 2024
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2/5
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Portraits of Dangerous Women
(2024)
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Alexa Dalby
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Nothing and no one in this disjointed film bears any relation to real people or their reactions or their behaviour or how they speak to each other.
Posted Oct 11, 2024
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3/5
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My Eternal Summer
(2024)
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Alexa Dalby
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My Eternal Summer is a strong and tender debut for a new Danish writer/director.
Posted Oct 03, 2024
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4/5
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The Goldman Case
(2023)
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Alexa Dalby
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The Goldman Case is an absorbing, well-acted and unfortunately still relevant examination of historical bias, painstakingly put together from reports and transcripts.
Posted Oct 03, 2024
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4/5
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Girls Will Be Girls
(2024)
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Alexa Dalby
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Girls Will Be Girls, the feature debut of writer/director Shuchi Talati, is a lovely, involving, coming-of-age, first love and mother/daughter relationship film with a hard centre, though it can seem slow.
Posted Sep 20, 2024
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3/5
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The Queen of My Dreams
(2023)
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Alexa Dalby
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The Queen of my Dreams is a very enjoyable film that hides its depths, a very meaningful debut for its writer/director.
Posted Sep 20, 2024
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3/5
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Maldoror
(2024)
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Alexa Dalby
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The colour palette is muddy, with rain-sodden industrial landscapes, grey skies, reflecting the pervading atmosphere of decay in Maldoror.
Posted Sep 20, 2024
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3/5
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Seven Days
(2024)
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Alexa Dalby
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Beautifully shot, Seven Days powerfully conveys the reality of Iran, the fear of the police on the secret escape route, the desperation of those who attempt it and Maryam’s determination...
Posted Sep 20, 2024
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4/5
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Shahed (The Witness)
(2024)
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Alexa Dalby
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It’s a gripping thriller as well as a huge metaphor... When the revolution starts, it will be women who started it.
Posted Sep 09, 2024
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4/5
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TWST - Things We Said Today
(2024)
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Alexa Dalby
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Not just for fans, Ujica’s fascinating documentary is a graphic, telling essay on the state of America, then and now.
Posted Sep 09, 2024
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3/5
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Mistress Dispeller
(2024)
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Alexa Dalby
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... A fascinating glimpse of human nature and China on the inside.
Posted Sep 04, 2024
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3/5
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Manas
(2024)
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Alexa Dalby
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The film has extraordinary access to Amazonian communities and the rainforest environment and campaignes for women’s issues – this seems like a doomed battle when the status quo is so entrenched but maybe Marcielle has the strength to understand why.
Posted Sep 04, 2024
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3/5
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Firebrand
(2023)
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Alexa Dalby
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Despite its historical shortcomings, Firebrand is still gripping in a Sunday-evening, Catherine Cookson-serial kind of way.
Posted Sep 04, 2024
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3/5
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Le Mohican
(2024)
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Alexa Dalby
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The Mohican is a fascinating, high-quality thriller set in beautiful countryside, where the traditional way of life starts to align with modernity.
Posted Sep 04, 2024
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3/5
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Vittoria
(2024)
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Alexa Dalby
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Although there are some fictionalised scenes in the film, this is a lovely, positive fact-based drama about the mysteries of the human heart and what it feels.
Posted Sep 04, 2024
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3/5
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Quiet Life
(2024)
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Alexa Dalby
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Quiet Life is a highly stylised film. It is shot with an unmoving camera, giving the impression of a series of still portraits.
Posted Aug 30, 2024
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3/5
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Super Happy Forever
(2024)
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Alexa Dalby
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... It turns out to be a nice, poignant film about love after all.
Posted Aug 30, 2024
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3/5
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Black Dog
(2024)
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Alexa Dalby
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It’s full of little things that are realistic on their own, but quite meaningful in a subtle way.
Posted Aug 28, 2024
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3/5
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Night Courier
(2023)
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Alexa Dalby
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A glossy, helter-skelter, thrilling watch, fascinating in what it reveals about a closed society in transition.
Posted Aug 28, 2024
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4/5
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Kneecap
(2024)
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Alexa Dalby
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For sheer excitement, don’t miss it.
Posted Aug 28, 2024
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