Reviews
Sirāt
Shocking and confrontational road movie is one to experience on the big screen
The Richest Woman in the World
An ambitious premise reduced to melodramatic clichés
Moi qui t’aimais
Biopic intending to present the enduring love of a celebrated couple flounders in dispiriting cycles of toxicity
Colours of Time
Clumsy approach to dual timeline undercuts light, undemanding drama about love and art across 130 years
The Musicians
Pleasantly diverting comedy-drama with a musical soul that achieves moments of transcendence
Nouvelle Vague
Linklater’s homage to the French New Wave is a joyous affair, even though it surrenders to the myth of its subject
Adulthood
Alex Winter’s goofball crime comedy is more of a tedious trek than an excellent adventure.
Die My Love
Jennifer Lawrence shines in a visceral and stylistically bold look at postpartum depression
Palestine 36
An earlier occupation provides a sweeping historicity but lacks the texture of more intimate works on Palestine
A Magnificent Life
Animated biopic of Marcel Pagnol may be standard fare beneath its surface, but what a gorgeous surface
Hedda
Rather like Hedda herself, this is a garish and attention-seeking, yet ultimately soulless creature
Anemone
Daniel Day-Lewis returns in a rough-hewn, gloomy psychodrama directed by first-timer son, Ronan