Author: Juliette Howard
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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
Élodie Bouchez is magnetic as a determined mother in Laetitia Masson’s Ulysse, a love and resilience epic about…
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Cannes Film Festival: Victorian Psycho (2026) – Zachary Wigon is a fresh voice in horror
Maika Monroe is unrecognizable in Zachary Wigon’s Victorian Psycho, a horror-cum-comedy esque nightmare written by Virginia Feito based…
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Cannes Film Festival: Histoires de la Nuit (2026) – classic home invasion tale is a thrill ride with faults
Based on Laurent Mauvignier’s 2020 novel, Léa Mysius directs this tense and thrilling adaptation of a birthday party…
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Cannes Film Festival: Butterfly Jam (2026) – coming of age drama about the Circassian diaspora is too surface level to ring true
Barry Keoghan and Harry Melling star in this strange drama from Kantemir Balagov in his English-language debut, following…
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Cannes Film Festival: Atonement (2026) – emotional war drama based on real events abides by the rules despite its strengths
Following his Academy Award nominated live action short DeKalb Elementary, Reed Van Dyk directs his first feature Atonement,…
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Cannes Film Festival: Gentle Monster (2026) – Léa Seydoux is a standout in Marie Kreutzer’s tense if dissonant drama
“There is only one thing worse than having children for a female artist”, Catherine Deneuve says in Marie…
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Cannes Film Festival: La Vie d’une Femme (2026) – Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet’s second feature is a soft, joyous experience
Léa Drucker is magnetic as a high-flying surgeon in Charline Bourgeois-Tacket’s second feature film La Vie d’une Femme…
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Cannes Film Festival: Fatherland (2026) – vignette of Thomas and Erika Mann’s Germany road trip falls short
Closely following Oscar winner Ida (2013) and nominee Cold War (2018) is Pawel Pawlikowski’s latest drama Fatherland, a…
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Cannes Film Festival: Amarga Navidad (2026) – Pedro Almodóvar looks inwards in honest take on autofiction
Pedro Almodóvar turns a glaring view on himself and the creative process in his newest film Amarga Navidad…
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Hokum (2026) – Damian McCarthy’s hotel horror will have you squirming in your seat
Adam Scott is strangely magnetic in the dark and twisted horror Hokum, Irish director Damian McCarthy’s latest instalment…
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The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026) – a product of its own critique
It has been twenty years since the team at Runway coined some of the most iconic phrases in…
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Michael (2026) – Hollywoodian biopic of the greatest entertainer of all time is excellently produced but lacks nuance
It’s safe to say that with every new biopic, the entire genre is once again questioned. There is…
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California Schemin’ (2025) – James McAvoy’s directorial debut about two Scots who conned the music industry is an absolute treat
Here is a larger than life film that would feel far-fetched were it not based on a true…
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The Drama (2026) – the most divisive film of the year?
Here we are, only in April, sat before what is doubtlessly the most divisive film of 2026. Last…
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Scream 7 (2026) – it’s time for this franchise’s fresh start
There is nothing quite like the Scream franchise. Pioneering in every way upon its initial release, its rotating…
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Send Help (2026) – Sam Raimi’s comeback about a survivalist getting back at her boss just can’t keep afloat
Four years after Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Sam Raimi returns with the survival bonanza Send…
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Wuthering Heights (2026) – adaptation turned fanfiction
Considering the polemical nature of Wuthering Heights, which has been garnering sceptical interest since its first trailer was…
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If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (2025) – Rose Byrne is exquisite as a stressed mess in Mary Bronstein’s motherhood drama
To say that If I Had Legs I’d Kick You is a revelation of Rose Byrne sounds somewhat…
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No Other Choice (2025) – Park Chan-wook’s black comedy is a feat in originality and creativity, if a little too dragged out
The world of cinema certainly isn’t short of films about men overwhelmed with obstacles of late. There was…
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Rental Family (2025) – Hikari’s dramedy is pleasing if too saccharine
Brendan Fraser returns to the big screen with a somewhat different take on family drama since his 2023…
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