Togo
Togo is the perfect family film for Disney+ and it is these original stories that the entertainment company should be focusing on, not remake after remake
Ip Man 4: The Finale
Ip Man 4 is a more profound and dramatic turn in this franchise and a film that perfectly echoes the ludicrous flair of 1970s martial arts features with joy
Hala
Hala is a piece of specifically South Asian representation, showing promising signs for more Pakistani, Indian, Bengali, Sri Lankan and more stories to be told, because brown girls deserve to see themselves in film
The Gentlemen
Guy Ritchie's The Gentlemen puts the acclaimed director back on track to his not too distant glory days of Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch
Bombshell
An eye-opening and memorable look into one of the first major successes of the #MeToo movement
Don't Let Go
Boasting a terrific premise but sticking to a somewhat conventional narrative, Don’t Let Go is an entertaining film that leaves much to be desired
Little Women
Greta Gerwig delivers on all the classic aspects of the novel while also modernizing the film to reflect today’s brand of feminism
Akira - 30th Anniversary
It is nostalgic yet contemporary feeling, it is fast-paced yet divinely deep, it is colourful yet depressingly bleak, and its elements are that of fantasy yet are showcased with a sense of reality
I Lost My Body (J'ai perdu mon corps)
A piece that is bold and experimental, creating a compelling and emotional tale unlike anything else to come out this year
Cats
Every viewer of Cats has to make a choice: will they try to stay objective, keeping a mental distance from these horrifically rendered chimaeras with the mutated faces of some of the world’s most recognizable talent, or will they allow themselves to fall head-first down the rabbit hole
Tenet (Prologue)
If this is truly a taste of what will be seen next July, then it is clear that Tenet has the right pieces to become Christopher Nolan’s magnum opus
Lucy in the Sky
Without Portman's outstanding talent, Noah Hawley's directorial debut befalls a cruel fate of avant-garde absurdity
Uncut Gems
“The Safdie Brothers prove once again that they are directors unmatched with Uncut Gems”
The Nightingale
Kent follows up her directorial debut, The Babadook, with a daring and harrowing examination of colonialism and abuse during 18th century Tasmania that proves itself to be a confronting, yet tricky film to watch
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
The Rise of Skywalker is a chaotic disappointment, from its incongruous start to its fumbled and laborious finish
Abominable
Abdominable maintains the dull and generic Western ideals that cause far more issues and concerns than complaints of being an unoriginal and dull affair
Zombi Child
Bertrand Bonello's Zombi Child is the quintessential metaphorical representation of both eating too much than one can swallow, and starving itself to the point of death
Paradise Hills
Alice Waddington's directorial debut and feministic science-fiction mystery, Paradise Hills, is one covered in societal and gender politics wrapped around a plot that is something in the middle of Lost meets The Stepford Wives.
Black Christmas
A disappointing and lifeless entity that has a profound and engaging conversation on socially conscious feminism and rape culture but unfortunately underwhelms the film’s main attraction of spills and chills
Alien - 40th Anniversary
There are very few movies in cinematic history that can claim their significant position in all of the genres and style of filmmaking that it takes part in. Ridley Scott's 1979 seminal classic Alien is one of them