Exhibiting Forgiveness review – André Holland powers moving father-son drama
A standout turn from the Moonlight star helps to ignite a powerful story of an artist forced to reconnect with his abusive father
A Real Pain review – Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin lead pat buddy dramedy
The pair play to expected types in an endearing yet often forced film about cousins visiting Poland to pay respects to their grandmother
The Outrun review – Saoirse Ronan is remarkable in a sensitive recovery drama
The Oscar nominee gives one of her greatest performances as a young woman grappling with addiction in a moving and delicate adaptation of Amy Liptrot’s memoir
Power review – damning documentary traces the history of US policing
Yance Ford’s followup to Oscar nominated documentary Strong Island is a visually elegant, if a little dry, look at a problematic instituion
Love Me review – Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun explore love in oddball sci-fi
The Oscar-nominated actors star as a buoy and a satellite falling for each other after the world has ended in a head-scratching experiment
‘Our full potential is on the other side of fear’: a vertigo-inducing look at ‘rooftopping’
Premiering at Sundance, documentary Skywalkers: A Love Story, follows a Russian couple known for daredevil stunts
Freaky Tales review – Pedro Pascal-led 80s anthology isn’t freaky enough
Captain Marvel directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck have made a bizarrely misjudged hodgepodge of gore, needle drops and nostalgia
Girls State review – compelling follow-up to hit documentary
In 2020, filmmakerss Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine struck gold with their film on a mock government program for 1,000 teenage boys. Now, it’s the girls’ turn.
Ghostlight review – charming tale of DIY Shakespeare theater
Triangle of Sadness star Dolly De Leon steals scenes in an endearing story of a real family wrapped up in a lo-fi staging of Romeo and Juliet
Sundance 2024: the biggest films to look out for from this year’s festival
Films starring Saoirse Ronan and Kristen Stewart and documentaries on US policing and Amazon union to premiere
Greta Gerwig named jury president of the Cannes film festival 2024
The Oscar-nominated writer and director of Lady Bird and Barbie was praised by the festival for ‘breaking down barriers and elevating intelligence and humanism’
Sundance 2024: Kristen Stewart, Saoirse Ronan and Steven Yeun lead lineup
The 40th edition of the Utah-based film festival will also feature new films from director Steven Soderbergh and actor turned film-maker Chiwetel Ejiofor
The Shadow of the Day review – old-fashioned romantic drama with war lurking on the horizon
As Italy succumbs to the fascists, a war veteran and small-town restaurateur falls for a beautiful stranger in Giuseppe Piccioni’s robustly made and excellently acted prewar melodrama
Body swaps, timewarps and other fresh hell – the Sitges film festival 2023
Catalonia’s annual celebration of strange screen tales included a murderous birthmark, weretigers and a therapist overcome with ancient evil
The Kitchen review – high-energy drama of near-future rundown housing estate
Kibwe Tavares and Daniel Kaluuya co-direct a drama about a funeral-service worker looking for a way out of the chaotic housing block of the title