Mirrah Foulkes’s wildly stylised feature dramatises the off-stage violence at a small-town sideshow, with Damon Herriman as a thuggish puppetmaster and Mia Wasikowska as his vengeful wife, writes Anton Bitel.
What was Stanley Kubrick really like? Speaking after his death, his wife Christiane and daughters Anya and Katharina set the record straight about the difference between the man and the mythology in this extended conversation with Nick James from our September 1999 issue.
Kasi Lemmons’ long overdue Harriet Tubman biopic focuses on her courageous missions to free slaves from their monstrous captors, but adds a compelling spiritual dimension to the action, writes Nikki Baughan.
A talented footballer kicks back against her misogynist husband in order to progress her career in Soheil Beiraghi’s portrait of Iran’s rigged separation game, say Philip Kemp.
Andrew ‘Rapman’ Onwubolu directs and provides a grime chorus to this gritty tale of youth violence expanded from a popular web series, writes Matthew Taylor.
East Londoners rehearse a play about their own marginalisation at a community garden in this organic, collaborative documentary about changing spaces and peripheral people, writes Ben Nicholson.
Filmmaker Ben Berman’s attempt to record John Szeles’s farewell tour is beset by unexpected competition and navel-gazing interludes in this offbeat doc, writes Matthew Taylor.
From his YouTube sensation Shiro’s Story to his friendship-across-the-gangwar-divide feature debut Blue Story – Andrew ‘Rapman’ Onwubolu, a rapper with a camera and a vision, tells Will Massa how he took the film industry by storm.
Director Thomas Heise’s family take centre-stage in this intimate essay film that documents a turbulent time with a warm and personal touch, writes Jordan Cronk.
Nature’s resilience is put to the test in Disney’s sequel to its animated Arctic-kingdom blockbuster, in which millennial poster princesses Elsa and Anna inherit a world convulsed by environmental trauma, says So Mayer.