Lance Lim 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

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

The Lock, Stock director stamps down on a lot of his usual flourishes for an earnest war movie about brotherhood and honour

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

Filmmaker Joost van der Wiel's look at Nils Leidal, self-exiled but still active on social media, wastes an intriguing premise

The latest in Keanu Reeves' most consistent franchise is its best, partly thanks to a better-than-perfect turn from Donnie Yen

Mia Goth gives a terrifyingly hypnotic, career-defining turn in Ti West's wildly entertaining and colourful confection of a movie

Despite some brilliant Gremlins-esque puppet work, Jon Wright's film wastes too much time on a sub-Straw Dogs plot

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

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