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My Father’s Island (aka Sukkwan Island) review – survival drama takes an ill-advised left-

Anatomy of a Fall’s Swann Arlaud plays a father who gets caught in a dangerous situation with his son in a well-made yet frustrating misfireAs writer-director, Vladimir de Fontenay has taken the central novella Sukkwan Island from David Vann’s autobiographical short-fiction colle

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Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day review – dreamy adaptation reaches for the stars

Woolf’s novel about a headstrong young Edwardian woman takes flight under Tina Gharavi’s direction, with Timothy Spall and Jennifer Saunders among the ensemble castHere is an adaptation, written by Justine Waddell, of Virginia Woolf’s peculiar and tonally elusive work that is all

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Effi o Blaenau review – Greek myth retelling Iphigenia in Splott becomes blistering Welsh-

Leisa Gwenllian is a force of nature as working-class heroine Effi in this big screen version of Gary Owen’s one-woman playThe visceral one-woman play Iphigenia in Splott by Welsh dramatist Gary Owen has overwhelmed audiences and critics since it premiered in 2015, reimagining th

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Rosebush Pruning review – dysfunctional rich family move in strange circles

Jamie Bell and Elle Fanning lead a starry cast in this clumsy satire that provides little fascination in a wealthy family’s suffocating livesSince Jesse Armstrong’s Succession and Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn, wealthy, spoilt, dysfunctional siblings are the new rock’n’roll, and now

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Lady review – outrageous mockumentary is like Saltburn on shrooms

With supreme entitlement, Sian Clifford’s Lady Isabella shines as ‘aristocracy’s answer to the Kardashians’ in this barnstorming comedy Those of us pining for Sian Clifford since the end of Fleabag, in which she played Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s fierce sister, have been rewarded with

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Cactus Pears review – tender and subtle story of forbidden love and a poignant awakening i

The strictures of family and class stand between two young men and their humble dreams of happiness in an assured directorial debut from Rohan KanawadeHere is a really impressive directorial debut from Mumbai film-maker Rohan Kanawade: tender, subtle, candid, scrupulously observe

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How Refugee Week film festival brings migrants’ experience home

From one hostile environment to another, the documentaries and dramas ranging from Nigeria and Syria to British immigration give vivid life to an experience that can feel very remoteAs World Refugee Day approaches on Saturday, this year’s Refugee Week offers a multitude of events

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In the Hand of Dante review – Gerard Butler is jaw-dropping in bizarre Renaissance mafia r

Julian Schnabel’s combustible mix of lowlife cynicism and high art – along with cameos from Martin Scorsese and Al Pacino – powers this outrageous black comedy revolving around Dante’s Divine ComedyThe worlds of Renaissance manuscript scholarship and organised crime come together

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Benita review – Alan Berliner puts new spin on late film-maker’s work in entrancing tribut

After Benita Raphan took her own life in 2021, director and friend Berliner spent years poring over her unfinished work to create a documentary unlike anything elseThis is a one-of-a-kind documentary that has been coaxed and cut together by veteran film-maker Alan Berliner (Intim

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Shadows of Willow Cabin review – secrets fester beneath horny hookup in low budget horror

Two men’s romantic getaway turns creepy in a talky elevated chiller about escaping the binds of the pastThe best elevated horror makes a metaphor out of its writhing emotional subtext, but writer-director Joe Fria sadly can’t make the leap in this low-budget debut that undoubtedl

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Pitfall review – big-hole survival horror is as if cast of Friends strayed into Deliveranc

Laborious and bombastic thriller set in a forest where a maniacal woodsman and a cast of irritating victims converge with gory resultsNo low-budget horror movie can apparently now be greenlighted without featuring the obligatory posse of supremely irritating victims ripe for the

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Supergirl: doggy distress, frontier justice and a new direction for superhero movies – dis

Craig Gillespie’s far-out adventure is something of a quirky oddity compared to bigger blockbuster outings – so why is it failing to fly at the box office?James Gunn’s Superman was the major make-or-break moment for DC’s latest cinematic reboot. And yet its follow-up may ultimate

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