★★★★☆
In a small Cornish town, Morwenna’s low-key existence is irrevocably changed when she falls for the mercurial Inga. Their burgeoning relationship is significantly complicated as Inga is a mythical Selkie in Isabel Daly’s charming comedy Washed Up.
★★★★☆
Marianne Faithfull is a much-misunderstood icon. Broken English, this documentary made to set the record straight made near the end of her life, by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, also features myriad stars of music and film.
★★★★☆
Sirat by Oliver Laxe is a desert survival story — and one of the year’s most gripping films
★★☆☆☆
Amanda Seyfried portrays the founder of the Shaker movement in director Mona Fastvold’s historical drama The Testament of Ann Lee, co-written by Brady Corbet.
★★★★☆
BAFTA 2026 winners
★★★★☆
Despite her attempts to avoid it, a nine-year-old rural schoolgirl in Iraq wins the dubious prize of being the one chosen in her class to make a birthday cake to celebrate the dictator’s birthday in The President’s Cake, directed by Hasan Hadi.
★★★★☆
BAFTA 2026 winners
★★★★☆
The Golden Globes awards are on 11 January 2026. WINNERS, Nominations, predictions and snu.bs
★★☆☆☆
The Kitchen Brigade is a wish-fulfilment comedy about the topical issue of migration to the European Union.
★★★★☆
A man beset by illness heads to his grandfather’s rural home which may be plagued by mysterious spirits, as acutely observed through the eyes of the man’s loyal dog Indy in Good Boy.
★★★★☆
Oscars Nominations / Winners 2026
★★★★☆
Oscars 2025 Shortlist
★★★★☆
International Oscars shortlist
★★★☆☆
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★★★☆☆
The Convert by Maori director Lee Tamahori, angry as his country is colonised by the British, set in 1834.
★★☆☆☆
Portraits of Dangerous Women describes itself as a British comedy drama. Oh dear.
