Alan Ball 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

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

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 eye-opening documentaries to intimate dramas, we highlight the films that might have slipped beneath your radar this past year...

As another year draws to a close, our writers choose their favourite films, from daring debuts to boundary-breaking blockbusters

As the month-long celebration kicks off again, Steph Green offers a pathway into the most morally murky of all movie genres...

To mark the release of Crimes of the Future, Steph Green sorts the body-obsessed auteur's vast filmography from worst to best...

Gabriel Byrne gives a solid lead performance in this tale of a terminally ill philanderer, but the film around him often grates

Though it doesn't quite land a satisfying conclusion, this is a chilling and uncomfortable piece of work from director Eskil Vogt

To coincide with the release of Parallel Mothers, Fedor Tot delves into the great Spanish filmmaker's vast and transgressive canon...

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