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Eleanor the Great

Scarlett Johansson’s Eleanor the Great opens with the kind of friendship rarely given centre stage in cinema –…

By Christina Yang
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Highest 2 Lowest

Directed with his characteristic verve and defiance, Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest begins as a crime thriller, only…

By Christina Yang
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Alpha

Four years after Spike Lee awarded Julia Ducournau the Palme d’Or for Titane, both directors return to Cannes…

By Selina Sondermann
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Exit 8

On a Japanese underground train, a young man (Kazunari Ninomiya) notices another passenger shouting at a mother with…

By Selina Sondermann
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Lucky Lu

In Lucky Lu, Lloyd Lee Choi expands his 2022 short Same Old into a bruising feature debut. Set…

By Christina Yang
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The Richest Woman in the World

There’s a bitter irony in Thierry Klifa’s The Richest Woman in the World (La femme la plus riche…

By Christina Yang
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The Phoenician Scheme

Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme is an opulent, sprawling fever dream of monstrous capitalists, fractured families and pastel-coloured…

By Christina Yang
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The Secret Agent

In 1970s Brazil, there are sharks in the water – in more ways than one. On a beach…

By Selina Sondermann
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Die, My Love

Lynne Ramsay’s Die, My Love plunges deep into Southern Gothic territory, set in an inherited Montana farmhouse, remote…

By Christina Yang
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Pillion

After the success of his BAFTA-nominated short film Wren Boys, we finally see British director Harry Lighton make…

By Selina Sondermann