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Monk in Pieces (2025) 92% EDIT “"A fragmentary but engaging documentary portrait of Meredith Monk, trailblazing icon of New York City's experimental arts and music scene."” – The Film Verdict Jul 13, 2025 Full Review Final Destination (2000) 50% EDIT “Final Destination is pure humbug, but an inspired premise that makes for slick and gripping entertainment. ” – The Times (UK) May 22, 2025 Full Review Starman (1984) 83% EDIT “The cross-country chase plot is unusually listless for Carpenter, a director best known for hard-edged horror and apocalyptic future shockers. But Bridges brings sympathy and credibility to his quasi-messianic hero.” – The Times (UK) May 13, 2025 Full Review Mission: Impossible (1996) 67% EDIT “This big-screen blockbuster makeover of the classic Sixties TV show is essentially one long rollercoaster ride of bravura camera work and sensational stunts. ” – The Times (UK) May 6, 2025 Full Review American Psycho (2000) 68% EDIT “Boldly adapting the notoriously violent novel by Bret Easton Ellis by turning it into a savagely funny satire on corporate sexism and 1980s materialism, the writer-director Mary Harron delivers more black comedy and less graphic gore.” – The Times (UK) Apr 4, 2025 Full Review American Psycho 2 (2002) 23% EDIT “Overcooked cash-in slasher sequel adds a female serial killer but misses the point. ” – The Times (UK) Apr 1, 2025 Full Review Köln 75 (2025) 88% 3/4 EDIT “Ido Fluk's playful period biopic celebrates the remarkable true story of the teenage German girl who made a landmark jazz concert happen against impossible odds.” – The Film Verdict Feb 25, 2025 Full Review Kontinental '25 (2025) 95% 3/5 EDIT “Punky Romanian auteur Radu Jude softens his usual bitingly satirical approach with this serious-minded but minor-key drama about gentrification and liberal guilt” – The Film Verdict Feb 25, 2025 Full Review Idyllic (2025) 3/4 EDIT “Dutch writer-director Aaron Rookus explores the funny side of death, depression and existential despair in this witty family tragicomedy.” – The Film Verdict Feb 25, 2025 Full Review Rains Over Babel (2025) 92% 3/4 EDIT “Colombian writer-director Gala del Sol’s stylish debut feature is an audacious, ambitious, kaleidoscopic carnival of queerness loosely based on Dante’s ‘Inferno’.” – The Film Verdict Feb 25, 2025 Full Review Timestamp (2025) 4/5 EDIT “Filmed in schools all across war-torn Ukraine, director Kateryna Gornostai's timely documentary is a deeply moving ensemble portrait of youthful hope and courage.” – The Film Verdict Feb 25, 2025 Full Review The Light (2025) 14% 1/4 EDIT “German writer-director Tom Tykwer returns to the big screen with a stylish but shallow family psychodrama set in contemporary Berlin.” – The Film Verdict Feb 25, 2025 Full Review Mickey 17 (2025) 78% 2/4 EDIT “Multiple Robert Pattinsons share a risky deep-space mission in 'Parasite' director Bong Joon-ho's visually dazzling but muddled sci-fi comedy thriller.” – The Film Verdict Feb 25, 2025 Full Review What Marielle Knows (2025) 3/4 EDIT “A telepathic schoolgirl reluctantly discovers some disturbing family secrets in German writer-director Frédéric Hambalek's sharp-witted satirical comedy.” – The Film Verdict Feb 25, 2025 Full Review Islands (2025) 96% 3/4 EDIT “Sam Riley and Stacy Martin share dark secrets and smouldering sexual tension in Jan-Ole Gerster's slow-moving but stylish psychological thriller.” – The Film Verdict Feb 25, 2025 Full Review If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) 92% EDIT “Starring Rose Byrne on revelatory form, Mary Bronstein’s high-energy dark comedy takes a deep dive into the nightmarish pressures and surreal horrors of motherhood.” – The Film Verdict Feb 25, 2025 Full Review New Strains (2023) 57% EDIT “Artemis Shaw and Prashanth Kamalakanthan make inventive use of vintage lo-fi video technology in this slight but charming pandemic rom-com” – The Film Verdict May 3, 2024 Full Review The Empire (2024) 59% EDIT “French writer-director Bruno Dumont combines visually dazzling 'Star Wars' parody with small-town farce in this ambitious but muddled space opera.” – The Film Verdict Mar 10, 2024 Full Review Eternal (2023) EDIT “Danish director Ulaa Salim's romantic sci-fi weepie is a glossy but underpowered inner-space odyssey that falls short of its Christopher Nolan-sized ambitions.” – The Film Verdict Mar 10, 2024 Full Review Small Things Like These (2024) 93% EDIT “Cillian Murphy stars in this relentlessly glum but powerful personal project, a soulful literary psychodrama about mercy, complicity and Church crimes in 1980s Ireland.” – The Film Verdict Mar 10, 2024 Full Review Sasquatch Sunset (2024) 71% EDIT “Featuring wordless performances by a heavily disguised Jesse Eisenberg and Riley Keough, this boldly surreal Bigfoot comedy has surprising emotional depth.” – The Film Verdict Mar 10, 2024 Full Review The Devil's Bath (2024) 91% EDIT “Real historical murder cases inspired this relentlessly grim but highly atmospheric psycho-thriller from Austrian writer-director duo Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala.” – The Film Verdict Mar 10, 2024 Full Review Dying (2024) 100% EDIT “German director Matthias Glasner's autobiographical, darkly funny, emotionally raw ensemble drama plays like a three-hour family therapy session.” – The Film Verdict Mar 10, 2024 Full Review Janet Planet (2023) 85% EDIT “Pulitzer-winning stage dramatist Annie Baker paints childhood as a midsummer daydream full of tragicomic adult behaviour in her droll, charming film debut.” – The Film Verdict Mar 10, 2024 Full Review A Different Man (2024) 93% EDIT “Aaron Schimberg's darkly funny body-horror fairy tale takes a satirical scalpel to the beastliness of beauty.” – The Film Verdict Mar 10, 2024 Full Review
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