Ben Young movies, cinema features and reviews

With the year at the halfway point, our writers choose their favourite films, from daring documentaries to box office bombs

From classics to cult favourites, our team highlight some of the best one-off screenings and re-releases showing this week in the capital

From classics to cult favourites, our team highlight some of the best one-off screenings and re-releases showing this week in the capital

Hannah Peterson's deft, heartbreaking debut film explores trauma through the perspectives of three people touched by tragedy

Carolina Cavalli's film about a friendless young woman brilliantly captures the anxiety and social ineptitude of the post-COVID youth

This absurdist Estonian animation from Mikk Mägi and Oskar Lehemaa makes for a maddeningly immature and hilarious ride

Kaouther Ben Hania's immersive doc finds potent truths in its re-enactments, but loses focus as it gradually abandons its premise

The latest film from acclaimed writer-director Anthony Chen tells the story of three disaffected youths, but ultimately feels underdone

David Lowery brings his earthy sensibilities to another remake in a muddled but thematically interesting swashbuckling adventure

This miserable and pointless debut feature from writer-director Emannuelle Nicot has nothing to say about its traumatic subject matter

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