Dan Bell movies, cinema features and reviews

Though it conjures up some compellingly freaky ways to visualise internalised misogyny, there's more to irritate than intrigue

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

The case of Maureen Kearney makes for a fury-inducing, though oddly slow, paranoid thriller of intimidation and harassment

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

The director's alleged "final" movie is another heavy-handed revolt against modern Britain, but its optimism eventually wins through

Mia Hansen-Løve changes lanes for a deceptively light romance about a woman, played by Léa Seydoux, dealing with love and loss

Norwegian filmmaker Bent Hamer's bleak but well-crafted look at Rust Belt America is a deadpan delight... until an ill-judged last act

Nicole Holofcener’s low-key look at the lies we tell each other to get by strays from universal comedy into far too niche territory

Emilia Jones and Nicholas Braun headline an adaptation of the acclaimed short story that can't help but feel dated in its message

Phoebe Dynevor and Alden Ehrenreich play a clashing power couple in writer-director Chloe Domont's sharp debut feature

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