Film and Arts Festivals·Film and Television·LGBTQ+ Rosebush Pruning (Berlinale) review – Aïnouz delights in exploring the writhing bed of maggots behind a facade of wealth and beauty by Neil Baker 19th February 2026
Editors' Choice·Film and Television·Music and Dance A Complete Unknown (review) – engaging, elegant and alluring yet somewhat pedestrian by Calum Cooper 12th January 2025
Film and Television Casting has been announced for Karim Aїnouz’s Rosebush Pruning for MUBI by Neil Baker 28th September 2024
Film and Television A Rainy Day in New York (review) – not even Chalamet, Fanning, and Law can save this film from becoming a soggy, disappointing mess by Neil Baker 6th June 2020
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2 Counterattack: Youth (review): A real pub setting elevates the intimacy between four lifelong friends in Gain Amy Park’s drama
3 Black Church Bay (BFI London Film Festival) review: Jones film is muddy, grey and open-ended as its knotty, unnerving tale unfolds
4 Josephine (BFI London Film Festival) review: De Anaújo and team cut to the bone of dense issues with devastating precision
5 Coward (BFI London Film Festival) review: Achingly beautiful and deeply intimate, this is Lukas Dhont’s best film to date
6 Whalefall (review): Austin Abrams is swallowed whole by a sperm whale in a bizarre rather than exciting survival movie
7 TV Choice: Brad Caleb Kane breathes new life into the Friday the 13th franchise this Halloween as we return to Crystal Lake
8 Iván & Hadoum (BFI London Film Festival) review: Ian de la Rosa’s sun-drenched love story is tender, real and organic in construction
9 Nightborn (BFI London Film Festival) review: Hanna Bergholm’s movie revels in wince-inducing horror, leaving the audience squirming
10 These Violent Delights (review): Hampson and Sansom’s passionate take on Romeo and Juliet marks the arrival of a new generation
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