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Emergency

A feature-length adaptation of the 2018 short film of the same name by director Carey Williams and screenwriter…

By Umar Ali
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The Road Dance

Based on the novel by John Mackay, Richie Adams’s The Road Dance is an occasionally emotionally battering yet…

By Matthew McMillan
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Rhino

Depicting a chaotic 1990s Ukraine, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Rhino portrays a young man embroiled…

By Catherine Sedgwick
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The Innocents

The Innocents is not for the fainthearted. The audience meets Ida (Rakel Lenora Fløttum), a nine-year-old Norwegian girl…

By Emma Kiely
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Benediction

Terence Davies’s plaintive biopic, about decorated soldier Siegfried Sassoon, explores the turbulent life of the anti-war activist and…

By Lauren Devine
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This Much I Know to Be True

“A whole lot of terrible shit happens when me and Warren get into a room. But there are…

By Andrew Murray
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Vortex

Gaspar Noé, generally a director of provocations, has made an elegant and candid feature in a lesser-spotted minor…

By Joseph Owen
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Everything Everywhere All at Once

It's always exciting when writer/directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert – collectively known as Daniels – team up…

By Guy Lambert
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Father Stu

Marking the directorial debut of Rosalind Moss, Father Stu takes us on the spiritual odyssey of foul-mouthed Stuart…

By Matthew McMillan