Various movies, cinema features and reviews

This dreamlike doc might lack punch, but it's an effective study of the self-inflicted hopelessness of the 21st century world

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

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

Terrible jokes, cringe-worthy performances, and jaw-droppingly ugly VFX work make for a truly wretched blockbuster experience

Mark Lyken's film captures the mundane joys of Hawick life through a breezy 90 minutes that entertains without saying much

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

Pierre Creton's poetic fifth feature draws together the worlds of sex and nature in a Normandy-set tale about an apprentice gardener

This documentary is inevitably filled with sadness, but also packed with laughs in the company of one of Hollywood's funniest actors

Norwegian director Kristoffer Borgli spins a fearless rom-com about a woman who chooses to engineer her own self-destruction

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