The Silver Lion La Biennale di Venezia goes to... a "beautiful yet soporific drama" from Italy! dmovies.org/2024/09/04/ver…

And Almodovar wins the Golden Lion with his very first feature film in English! This is our four-splat review of the "amusing and enlightening meditation on cancer and suicide": dmovies.org/2024/09/02/the…

Oir editor's dirty favourite to take the Golden Lion @La_Biennale won the Best Screenplay Award instead. Find out more about the historical drama, which he describes as "a cinematic tour-de-force and also a powerful weapon for change in Brazilian politics":

Our editor's second dirty favourite to win the Golden Lion @La_Biennale instead takes home the Special Jury Prize Read his take on this piece of "truly inspiring and evocative filmmaking": dmovies.org/2024/09/05/apr…

"Because of the fly-on-the-wall approach, and the choice to capture almost exclusively the most uplifting moments, it is hard to establish whether Bing set out to criticise the unfettered industrialisation of China, or to celebrate it" LIVE La Biennale di Venezia: dmovies.org/2024/09/08/you…

Family differences and serendipities punctuate this "modern" portrait of Tehran Artist-turned-filmmaker showcases his debut feature La Biennale di Venezia: dmovies.org/2024/09/08/boo…

Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder star in Tim Burton's colourful and disjointed sequel to 1988's Beetlejuice In cinemas everywhere now: dmovies.org/2024/08/28/bee…

Five characters give their impressions of life as queer people of colour, in a world divided by religion and righteousness From @Bronzelens: dmovies.org/2024/09/09/lig…

"The Room Next Door has many of Almodovar's trademarks. The attention to hot and intense colours remains the same" Read our dirty review of this year's Golden Lion winner: dmovies.org/2024/09/02/the…

The director of extraordinary religion drama Apostasy returns with a completely different film: an English folk horror that's visually exuberant and yet fails to engage and scare In cinemas across the nation: dmovies.org/2024/08/16/sta…

A cruel and obese Jude Law is the biggest highlight of this highly conventional period drama about Henry VIII and his sixth and final wife, Catherine Parr Karim Ainouz's most commercial film to date is in cinemas now: dmovies.org/2023/05/22/fir…

Chinese-American doctor has to grapple with her passion for acting and her undocumented mother, in this non-judgmental take on the American Dream From the HollyShorts Film Festival: dmovies.org/2024/09/09/ame…

Seventy-year-old widow from Iran seeks love and affection in a society that blatantly denies women autonomy, freedom and the simple pleasures of life Gently subversive drama is in cinemas on Friday: dmovies.org/2024/02/16/my-…

Kate Winslet stars as iconic war photographer Lee Miller, in this insightful yet dispirited biopic of a woman partly erased from history In cinemas on Friday: dmovies.org/2024/09/10/lee/

"I didn’t want to glorify or demonise psychedelics" The director of The Serena Variations talks about the pressures musicians face, taking drugs, the Niccolò Paganini connection, and much more! dmovies.org/2024/09/10/our…

Ryusuke Hamaguchi's reflection on Manichaeism is ambiguous, contemplative and gently gripping Finally available on VoD: dmovies.org/2024/01/20/evi…

Legendary American director Francis Ford Coppola has compiled a story that works as well onscreen as it would as a literary text In cinemas soon! dmovies.org/2024/05/17/meg…

Six-year-old Cléo isn't ready to give up her nanny Gloria, so they spend their last summer together on an island haunted by colonialism Now on various VoD platforms: dmovies.org/2024/06/11/ama…

Victoria Luxford interviews Ziyu Lou, the director of American Daydream They talk about undocumented immigrants, language barriers, Confucian values, shifting from comedy to drama, and... cooking Chinese food for your cast and crew! dmovies.org/2024/09/11/our…

Yorgos Lanthimos's eerie-silly display of altruism feels like a David Lynch film remade by Peter Greenaway Finally on VoD: dmovies.org/2024/05/18/kin…