Hot Milk: A heated affair, an overbearing Fiona Shaw and some shameful Irish sexuality
The acclaimed director explains why she is ‘very interested in outsiders’ and why she decided to give an Irish angle to her adaption of Deborah Levy’s novel
Four new films to see this week: 28 Years Later, Elio, Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story, and S/He Is Still Her/e
A quartet of movies released in the week of June 20th, 2025
Elio star Yonas Kibreab: ‘I saw my first Pixar movies when I was four, so to be in one is surreal’
Filipino-American actor (15) plays a misfit kid whisked across the galaxy in Pixar’s latest bid for renewed box-office dominance
S/He Is Still Her/e review: Genesis P-Orridge film offers invaluable glimpses into a radical life
P-Orridge lived many selves, spanning punk rebellion, gender reinvention, occult philosophy and more
Elio review: Pixar’s all-ages pleasures are in short supply in strangely half-formed animation
Creative shifts during the film’s troubled production are all too evident in its on-screen storytelling
Four new films to see this week: Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, How to Train Your Dragon, Tornado and Lollipop
A quartet of movies released in the week of June 13th, 2025
Jane Austen Wrecked My Life director Laura Piani: ‘I didn’t want to do a film about a woman who is saved by a man’
The French director’s Austen-influenced romcom with a clever spin was inspired by a stint working at Paris bookshop Shakespeare and Company
Tornado review: A singular, if rarely easy, watch about double-crossing rogues on the rampage
John Maclean returns to the austere storytelling that defined Slow West, his well-regarded debut, in a film of stark silences and oppressive atmospherics
Lollipop review: This socially aware film is maddening, urgent viewing
Daisy-May Hudson’s first scripted feature builds on her documentary Half Way’s poignant account of the challenges faced by a single mum and the family’s encounters with bureaucracy
‘I couldn’t resist the fact that the sharks weren’t the monsters’: Sean Byrne on making the thriller Dangerous Animals
The cult Australian director’s latest movie pits the oceans’ apex predators against human savagery
Your Monster: Audacious debut swerves from romcom to horror. Be prepared for it to cast a spell
Writer-director’s auspicious debut sustains audacious tonal balancing act
Dangerous Animals review: Jaws meets Wolf Creek in this watery Ozploitation movie
Not especially gripping or intriguing, but it rattles along as effective B-movie gore
Four new films to see this week
Sundance hit The Ballad of Wallis Island is a cult comedy fave in the making. Plus a strong French melodrama, a troubled British couple on the move, and another routine Karate Kid retooling
The Ballad of Wallis Island review: Is this crowd-pleaser one of the best British films of all time?
Richard Curtis thinks so, and the melancholic, wry and character-driven comedy has already developed a cult following
The Ballad of Wallis Island: ‘Anyone can hypothetically write Carey Mulligan into their little thing. She was top of our list’
Tim Key and Tom Basden’s new film has been almost two decades in the making. It’s well worth the wait