Ankle-deep in ducks
McCartney, McKellen, Rohrwacher and Barthelme star in our top 10 for 29 May 2026
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To meet you in the falling rain...
Paul finds a new direction at the end of the world
Cathedral swoopings
The honeyed, potent swoon of the Cocteau Twins
Rich conceptual orrery
A review of the Magnetic Fields reissued 69 Love Songs, and a Q&A with Stephin Merritt
The last days of disco
Pet Shops Boys in the rock and roll years
Scary monsters
Dry Cleaning explain how art and humour are our best defence from techbro supercreeps
Losing in front of your home crowd
Heaven doesn’t seem to be your home
Farewell cheerless marshes
Hooray for Hollywood
You know your luck too well
Four years of scandal, acclaim, revenge and betrayal
Good times for a change
It is your sacred mission to restore the sanctity of the Pop Moment
THE CHRISTOPHERS
McKellen carries the whole thing quite magnificently on his pale, scrawny, octogenarian shoulders
KÖLN 75
By capturing the skronky zeitgeist, Fluk enriches our experience of the performance more vividly than a conventional biopic
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DJ AHMET
The script hits its beats with the precision of a well-programmed 808, and occasionally with similar predictability
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ROSE OF NEVADA
If you are willing to let the salt, grit and spray of Jenkin's film seep into your bones, this is his most disquieting work yet.
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THE STRANGER
An overly polite rendition of a venerable classic
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MIROIRS NO. 3
A modest addition to a great director's filmography
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FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER
Three moody jazz variations in a very minor key
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LA GRAZIA
After the overblown Parthenope, "Diet Sorrentino" is no bad thing
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SOUND OF FALLING
Like the Bergman of Fanny and Alexander filming Gaston Bachelard’s The Poetics of Space
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RESURRECTION
Directed by: Bi Gan Starring: Jackson Yee, Shu Qi, Mark Chao Certificate: 15 Released: 13 March 2026 Rating: 8/10 Bi Gan’s first feature, Kaili Blues (2015), made when he was just 25, was notable for a remarkable 41-minute road trip accomplished in a single bravura shot. Midway through,
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DEAD MAN’S WIRE
Directed by: Gus Van Sant Starring: Bill Skarsgård, Dacre Montgomery, Al Pacino Certificate: tbc Released: 20 March 2026 Rating: 7/10 "There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down brothers on the instant replay," insisted Gil Scott-Heron in 1970, but not even he could foresee our present
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SIRÂT
Directed by: Oliver Laxe Starring: Sergi López, Bruno Núñez, Stefania Gadda Certificate: 15 Released: 27 February 2026Rating: 8/10 Galician director Oliver Laxe is shaping up to be modern cinema’s austere poet of mystical revelation. Mimosas (2016) was the kind of film that Sufi poets might have made if
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THE SECRET AGENT
Directed by: Kleber Mendonça Filho Starring: Wagner Moura, Maria Fernanda Cândido, Udo Kier Certificate: 15 Released: 20 February 2026Rating: 9/10 Last year Walter Salles’ I’m Still Here began as a rapturous love letter to the lost Rio of his youth. Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent feels
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NOUVELLE VAGUE
Directed by: Richard Linklater Starring: Guillaume Marbeck, Zoey Deutch, Aubry Dullin Certificate: 12A Released: 30 January 2026 Rating: 8/10 Richard Linklater has perfected the knack of making films so charming you want to find a quiet corner in them and curl up with glee. With last year’s Blue