Lisa Bor movies, cinema features and reviews

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

The new nightmare from the Midsommar director is alternatively intense, chilling, and anxious, though is let down by a laggy middle

Adam Solomons talks to the Ukrainian director about his Cannes hit and how even a non-political film can be bastardised by war

Sierra Pettengill explores the history of police violence to counter civil unrest, probing the status of images as material memories

Shekhar Kapur's London-set film clearly wants to emulate the Richard Curtis classics, but it can't even get the basics right

Jesse Eisenberg is brilliantly cast against type in a fascinating, flawed thriller with too many moving parts to do its subject justice

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

This sombre and surprisingly stylish debut from British filmmaker Adura Onashile skilfully explores notions of family and seperation

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

Sam Mendes' first film as writer-director proves misguided, failing as both a love letter to cinema and as an exploration of societal ills

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