International Reviews
AMRUN Review: Austere and Solitary Observer with Confused Psyche
Jasper Billerbeck, Laura Tonke, Lisa Hagmeister, and Kian Köppke star in this historical drama.
MĀRAMA Review: Combining the Personal and Political, In Gothic Form
Ariana Osborne, Toby Stephens, and Umi Myers star in writer/director Taratoa Stappard's gothic horror mystery.
MILE END KICKS Review: Contemporary RomCom Captures a Challenge of Epic Proportions
Barbie Ferreira, Devin Bostick, and Stanley Simons star in director Chandler Levack's music-laced romantic comedy.
THE CHRISTOPHERS Review: Art Forgery Comedy-Drama Excels On Every Level
Steven Soderbergh's film stars Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel, with James Corden, Jessica Gunning.
Diagonale 2026 Review: MOTHER'S BABY Masks a Paranoid Thriller Within an Ambiguous Psychological Portrait
Marie Leuenberger and Claes Bang star. Austrian filmmaker Johanna Moder tackles post-partum depression and potential psychosis as a slow-burning paranoid thriller, where maternal anxiety is filtered through an unreliable perspective and edged with traces of dark humour.
CHAO Review: Joyful and Hilarious Comic Adventure
Director Yasuhiro Aoki's stellar debut feature explodes on the screen with controlled chaos.
EXIT 8 Review: Purposely Repetitive, Yet Never Dull Horror Thriller
Genki Kawamura directed; Kazunari Ninomiya and Yamato Kochi star.
GILDA Blu-ray Review: The Atypical Noir Gets a Fresh Restoration
Probably like many people of my and slightly older generations, I was first introduced to Gilda from a scene in The Shawshank Redemption, during which the prisoners are watching the film and one insists that his friend pause in asking a request until...
Diagonale 2026 Review: WHITE SNAIL Subverts Girl-Meets-Boy Into Anti-Romance
Austrian-German filmmakers Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter's fiction debut reworks social drama conventions into a psychologically driven, docu-fiction hybrid centred on an unstable relationship shaped by loneliness, death and an implied autocratic backdrop.
HAMLET Review: Thrillingly Cinematic Internal Journey Into Personal Hell
Riz Ahmed, Morfydd Clark, and Joe Alwyn star in director Aneil Karia's modern-day adaptation.
THE LAND OF SOMETIMES Review: Careful What You Wish For
Ewan McGregor, Alisha Weir, Andrei Shen, Asa Butterfield, Helena Bonham Carter, and Mel Brooks star in the British animated musical adventure.
Diagonale 2026 Review: PORTRAIT OF NOWNESS Assembles a Fragmented Mosaic
Co-created by Juri Rechinsky and Mario Hainzl, the film constructs a first-person docu-experiment in which body-camera footage across multiple continents reframes notions of everyday life through contrasting conditions of normalcy.
Diagonale 2026 Review: THE STORIES Turns Familiar Tragicomic Family Saga Tropes into Finetuned Crowd-pleaser
Abu Bakr Shawky's film unfolds as a multi-generational family saga that situates an intimate love story within the shifting social and political landscape of Egypt from the 1960s to the 1990s.
Diagonale 2026 Review: WAX & GOLD Probes Memory and Myth of Ethiopia's Beloved Autocrat
Austrian filmmaker Ruth Beckermann uses the spatial and historical layers of the Hilton Addis Ababa to examine how the legacy of Haile Selassie is constructed, negotiated and contested through personal memory, archival material and competing narratives.
Diagonale 2026 Review: ROSE, Sandra Hüller Excels in Period Drama Examining Pursuit of Freedom Through Cross-dressing
Austrian filmmaker Markus Schleinzer's third feature casts Sandra Hüller as a woman who adopts a male identity within a Protestant farming community during the Thirty Years' War in order to secure property, labour autonomy and social legitimacy otherwise inaccessible to her.
BEN-HUR 4K UHD Review: Battles Between Good and Evil Look More Spectacular Than Ever
William Wyler's 1959 classic stars Charlton Heston and Stephen Boyd. Features on the new 4K edition showcase more details of vivid filmmaking and cinematography.
THE STRANGER Review: Senseless Actions, Racist History
François Ozon adapts Albert Camus' classic novel, giving a deeper context of understanding the protagonist's senseless actions, based on France's racist colonial history.
THE KILLER Review: John Woo's Achingly Romantic Bloodbath Returns to Cinemas
The power of the gun is terrible and beautiful in equal measure in the work of John Woo, the inarguable alpha dog of the Hong Kong heroic bloodshed genre, whose unrelentingly and entertainingly violent streak in the late 80s and...
ALPHA Review: Violent Grief and Desperate Love
Grief is not a straight line that slowly leads from deep sorrow to acceptance and remembrance; it comes in waves, and can reignite like a bonfire at the strangest moments, even decades on. Fear can likewise come like an tornado...
THE STRANGER Review: Cool Aloofness
Francois Ozon's new version of Albert Camus' book debuted at the 2025 Venice Film Festival.
