
Mutt
Dir. Vuk Lungulov-Klotz
Just based off its title, Mutt is already a film that tackles a state of in-between, and perhaps what makes…

Perpetrator
Dir. Jennifer Reeder
There’s a degree of removal in Perpetrator which some viewers may find jarring: most visibly, in the performances, whose heightened…

The Royal Hotel
Dir. Kitty Green
The Royal Hotel sees Hanna (Julia Garner) and Liv (Jessica Henwick) resorting to take up a dire live-in job behind…
Manodrome
Dir. John Trengove
South African director John Trengove follows-up his debut The Wound with another take on masculinity, this time set in the…

Another Body
Dir. Reuben Hamlyn & Sophie Compton
Sophie Compton and Reubyn Hamlyn’s British-American documentary about the harm of deepfakes won the SXSW Special Jury Award for its…

Master Gardener
Dir. Paul Schrader
As the third instalment in Paul Schrader’s “man in a room” trilogy after First Reformed (2017) and The Card Counter…

Slotherhouse
Dir. Matthew Goodhue
Amongst the google searches for this one you’ll find “Is Slotherhouse a real film?” and that says a lot. When…
Suitable Flesh
Dir. Joe Lynch
The director of one of the few esteemed horror sequels (Wrong Turn 2: Dead End) adapting H. P. Lovecraft? Yes…

Foe
Dir. Garth Davis
Director Garth Davis (who worked with Jane Campion on Top of the Lake) adapts Iain Reid’s novel Foe with little…

Lynch/Oz
Dir. Alexandre O. Philippe
Swiss filmmaker Alexandre O. Philippe gave us the free-flowing fandom doc The People vs. George Lucas in 2010 and hasn’t…

The Last Rider
Dir. Alex Holmes
American cyclist Greg LeMond, who in 1986 won the Tour de France has been a legend in the sports world,…

Cow
Dir. Andrea Arnold
The film unfolds in the rhythm of a cow’s life: birth, mating, feeding, milking, checkups. Soon, these events become regular…

Piaffe
Dir. Ann Oren
Visual artist Ann Oren’s first foray into feature-length filmmaking is a sensual delight and a gift that keeps on giving.…

Nocebo
Dir. Lorcan Finnegan
Irish director Lorcan Finnegan’s follow-up to the social dystopia Vivarium, too, centers around the trials and tribulations of a nuclear…

Coup de Chance
Dir. Woody Allen
The humor, oh the humor! It’s a breath of fresh air to be laughing with a Woody Allen film and…

Pearl
Dir. Ti West
It’s rare to see a prequel surpass its antecedent, but Pearl is that exception. You can watch it before or…

You Were My First Boyfriend
Dir. Cecilia Aldarondo
“Imagine a nightmare when you had to relive your adolescence,” says Cecilia Aldarondo at the beginning of her third film,…

Elena Knows
Dir. Anahí Berneri
After working on Prime’s TV series Verdict, Argentinian director Anahí Berneri has now made her Netflix debut with Elena Knows,…

Show Me Love
Dir. Lukas Moodysson
Set in the small town of Åmål, western Sweden, the debut feature by Lukas Moodysson (We Are the Best), is…

Little England
Dir. Pantelis Voulgaris
Little England is one of those rare cases in small-nation cinemas, where a film was equally appealing to mainstream and…

Viva
Dir. Paddy Breathnach
Shrooms director Paddy Breathnach has als dipped his toes in romcoms and thrillers, but this queer Bogota-set drama has a…

The Forest for the Trees
Dir. Maren Ade
More than a decade before she made Toni Erdmann, German filmmaker Maren Ade turned her eye on a small-town school,…

August at Twenty-Two
Dir. Sophia Castuera
Sophia Castuera’s first feature after two indie shorts seems like a low-key affair, but it fits neatly into a canon…





















