Alan King movies, cinema features and reviews

Celine Deveaux's French-Portuguese debut can be too quirky for its own good, but a fantastically written lead character keeps it afloat

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

Though slow, this doc about the Naxalite movement and India's bureaucratic state offers great insight into an unexplored world

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

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

The Guard brothers' '70s-set second feature uses the styles of the decade to set itself apart from the Brit-thriller pack

Writer-director James Gunn stays true to himself while delivering a quirky, action-packed, and shockingly emotional sign-off

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

Mia Goth gives a terrifyingly hypnotic, career-defining turn in Ti West's wildly entertaining and colourful confection of a movie

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