Maria Sid 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

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

Swedish-Costa Rican director Nathalie Álvarez Mesén explores female desire and emancipation using non-professional actors

Maria Schrader's powerfully-acted film shows how journalistic integrity and female solidarity sparked a global movement

Actor-turned-director Manuela Martelli’s brilliant character study immerses viewers in the paranoid political landscape of 1970s Chile

Halina Reijn's film updates classic genre tropes with a cast of young narcissists who make for great murder victims but bad company

Mariano Cohn and Gaston Duprat mix big laughs with formal ambition for a comedy that loves and mocks its subjects equally

As the latest take on Persuasion comes to Netflix, Steph Green highlights some of the author's finest screen adaptations to date

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