Alan Mak movies, cinema features and reviews

Celine Deveaux's French-Portuguese debut can be too quirky for its own good, but a fantastically written lead character keeps it afloat

Packed with enough jokes and visual inventiveness to get around the corporate feel, this follow-up to Little Women is a vibrant treat

Though slow, this doc about the Naxalite movement and India's bureaucratic state offers great insight into an unexplored world

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

British-Moroccan director Fyzal Boulifa's second film tips its hat to the grand Hollywood tradition, but this mother-son tale feels slight

Leonor Serraille's gorgeous new film, about an Ivorian family in France, balances a grounded tale with splashes of the surreal

The Game of Thrones actor stars opposite Scoot McNairy in this twisty tale of drug smuggling, set in the American Midwest

The cult director's 1988 film brings his trademark subversiveness into the mainstream through its deft exploration of music history

With its haphazard structure and dull framing device, Annette Apon's biography of Leonie Brandt is made unnecessarily confusing

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

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