Maya Ali movies, cinema features and reviews

With none of the saving graces of Tetris, Air, or Barbie, this ambition-free look at the Beanie Baby craze is pure mediocrity

From eye-opening documentaries to intimate dramas, we highlight the films that might have slipped beneath your radar this past year...

The tragically departed star casts a long shadow over Ryan Coogler's intermittently excellent but otherwise bloated sequel

Maya Hawke and Camila Mendes star in an entertaining though ultimately undercooked high school riff on Strangers on a Train

Joel Edgerton stars in the writer-director's third "man in a room" movie in a row, a character study that both confounds and absorbs

With the year at the halfway point, our writers choose their favourite films, from Bollywood bangers to belated blockbusters

Giuseppe Tornatore helms a loving, exhaustive look at his former collaborator Ennio Morricone, arguably cinema's greatest composer

A remarkable lead turn make this bullying drama worth seeing, even as it gets caught awkwardly between social realism and allegory

Bolivian workers find themselves afflicted with a strange disease in writer-director Kiro Russo's opaque but not unrewarding mystery

To coincide with the release of Moonfall, Rafaela Sales Ross looks back on the CG-obsessed director's explosive canon...

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