Alan Young 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

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

Adeline Neary Hay's documentary about her mother's flight from Cambodia compresses decades of family history into just 70 minutes

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

Known for her taboo erotic dramas, the director's remake of 2019’s Queen of Hearts fails to make up its mind on what it wants to be

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

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

Sacha Polak's semi-improvised and well-acted new film explores the destructive power of anger, but bites off more than it can chew

Overrated hack or underrated auteur? Fedor Tot explores the twisty filmmaker's output to mark the release of Knock at the Cabin

Balancing Old Testament Biblical scale with intimate human drama, the director sets a high bar for 2023's blockbuster crop

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