Awards, out now, Reviews

BAFTA 2026 winners

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
BAFTA 2026 winners

★★★, BFI London Film Festival 2025, Cannes Film Festival 2025, coming of age, first feature, Iraq, oscars, out now, Reviews

The President’s Cake (2025) (Mamlaket al-qasab)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
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.

★★★★, BFI London Film Festival 2025, Cannes Film Festival 2025, France, Netflix, out now, Reviews, USA

Nouvelle Vague (2025)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆

Breathless (A Bout de Souffle) and Citizen Kane are generally accepted to be the most influential films ever made: Jean-Luc Godard and Orson Welles, their directors. Breathless was on television recently: it is now part of film history.

★★★, BFI London Film Festival 2023, Chris Drew, Female Filmmakers, On Demand, out now, Reviews, UK

H is for Hawk (2025)

By Alexa Dalby

★★★☆☆
Claire Foy plays an academic devastated by bereavement who finds solace in a connection with a goshawk in Philippa Lowthorpe’s true-story drama H is for Hawk.

BFI London Film Festival 2025, Female Filmmakers, out now, Reviews, Toronto, UK, USA

Hamnet (2025)

By Chris Drew

★★★★☆
The story of the marriage between Agnes and William Shakespeare and how unthinkable tragedy helped the playwright create Hamlet is told in Chloe Zhao’s emotional adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel Hamnet.

Awards, out now, Reviews

Golden Globes 2026

By Alexa Dalby

★★★★☆
The Golden Globes awards are on 11 January 2026. WINNERS, Nominations, predictions and snu.bs