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  • Cannes Film Festival: Ulysse (2026) – Un Certain Regard’s closing film is a beautiful ode to the love of a mother for her child

    Cannes Film Festival: Ulysse (2026) – Un Certain Regard’s closing film is a beautiful ode to the love of a mother for her child

    Juliette Howard

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    May 30, 2026

    Élodie Bouchez is magnetic as a determined mother in Laetitia Masson’s Ulysse, a love and resilience epic about…

  • Cannes Film Festival: Victorian Psycho (2026) – Zachary Wigon is a fresh voice in horror

    Cannes Film Festival: Victorian Psycho (2026) – Zachary Wigon is a fresh voice in horror

    Juliette Howard

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    May 30, 2026

    Maika Monroe is unrecognizable in Zachary Wigon’s Victorian Psycho, a horror-cum-comedy esque nightmare written by Virginia Feito based…

  • Cannes Film Festival: Histoires de la Nuit (2026) – classic home invasion tale is a thrill ride with faults

    Cannes Film Festival: Histoires de la Nuit (2026) – classic home invasion tale is a thrill ride with faults

    Juliette Howard

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    May 30, 2026

    Based on Laurent Mauvignier’s 2020 novel, Léa Mysius directs this tense and thrilling adaptation of a birthday party…

  • Cannes Film Festival: Butterfly Jam (2026) – coming of age drama about the Circassian diaspora is too surface level to ring true

    Cannes Film Festival: Butterfly Jam (2026) – coming of age drama about the Circassian diaspora is too surface level to ring true

    Juliette Howard

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    May 28, 2026

    Barry Keoghan and Harry Melling star in this strange drama from Kantemir Balagov in his English-language debut, following…

  • Cannes Film Festival: Atonement (2026) – emotional war drama based on real events abides by the rules despite its strengths

    Cannes Film Festival: Atonement (2026) – emotional war drama based on real events abides by the rules despite its strengths

    Juliette Howard

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    May 28, 2026

    Following his Academy Award nominated live action short DeKalb Elementary, Reed Van Dyk directs his first feature Atonement,…

  • Cannes Film Festival: Gentle Monster (2026) – Léa Seydoux is a standout in Marie Kreutzer’s tense if dissonant drama

    Cannes Film Festival: Gentle Monster (2026) – Léa Seydoux is a standout in Marie Kreutzer’s tense if dissonant drama

    Juliette Howard

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    May 28, 2026

    “There is only one thing worse than having children for a female artist”, Catherine Deneuve says in Marie…

  • Cannes Film Festival: La Vie d’une Femme (2026) – Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet’s second feature is a soft, joyous experience

    Cannes Film Festival: La Vie d’une Femme (2026) – Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet’s second feature is a soft, joyous experience

    Juliette Howard

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    May 26, 2026

    Léa Drucker is magnetic as a high-flying surgeon in Charline Bourgeois-Tacket’s second feature film La Vie d’une Femme…

  • Cannes Film Festival: Fatherland (2026) – vignette of Thomas and Erika Mann’s Germany road trip falls short

    Cannes Film Festival: Fatherland (2026) – vignette of Thomas and Erika Mann’s Germany road trip falls short

    Juliette Howard

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    May 23, 2026

    Closely following Oscar winner Ida (2013) and nominee Cold War (2018) is Pawel Pawlikowski’s latest drama Fatherland, a…

  • Cannes Film Festival: Amarga Navidad (2026) – Pedro Almodóvar looks inwards in honest take on autofiction

    Cannes Film Festival: Amarga Navidad (2026) – Pedro Almodóvar looks inwards in honest take on autofiction

    Juliette Howard

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    May 23, 2026

    Pedro Almodóvar turns a glaring view on himself and the creative process in his newest film Amarga Navidad…

  • Hokum (2026) – Damian McCarthy’s hotel horror will have you squirming in your seat

    Hokum (2026) – Damian McCarthy’s hotel horror will have you squirming in your seat

    Juliette Howard

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    May 11, 2026

    Adam Scott is strangely magnetic in the dark and twisted horror Hokum, Irish director Damian McCarthy’s latest instalment…

  • The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026) – a product of its own critique

    The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026) – a product of its own critique

    Juliette Howard

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    May 8, 2026

    It has been twenty years since the team at Runway coined some of the most iconic phrases in…

  • Michael (2026) – Hollywoodian biopic of the greatest entertainer of all time is excellently produced but lacks nuance

    Michael (2026) – Hollywoodian biopic of the greatest entertainer of all time is excellently produced but lacks nuance

    Juliette Howard

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    May 5, 2026

    It’s safe to say that with every new biopic, the entire genre is once again questioned. There is…

  • California Schemin’ (2025) – James McAvoy’s directorial debut about two Scots who conned the music industry is an absolute treat

    California Schemin’ (2025) – James McAvoy’s directorial debut about two Scots who conned the music industry is an absolute treat

    Juliette Howard

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    April 18, 2026

    Here is a larger than life film that would feel far-fetched were it not based on a true…

  • The Drama (2026) – the most divisive film of the year?

    The Drama (2026) – the most divisive film of the year?

    Juliette Howard

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    April 7, 2026

    Here we are, only in April, sat before what is doubtlessly the most divisive film of 2026. Last…

  • Scream 7 (2026) – it’s time for this franchise’s fresh start

    Scream 7 (2026) – it’s time for this franchise’s fresh start

    Juliette Howard

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    March 20, 2026

    There is nothing quite like the Scream franchise. Pioneering in every way upon its initial release, its rotating…


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