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The artist’s films at Camden Arts Centre evoke anxiety in the face of world events and the tenderness of collective living

BY Ellen Mara De Wachter |

Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma is full of other movies, yet it ignores the political and dialectical history of movies themselves

BY Masha Tupitsyn |

Narratively, the ‘choose your own adventure’ film is a dead-end, with repetition and wheel-spinning increasingly producing frustration

BY Vadim Rizov |

Director Yorgos Lanthimos does away with the prudish niceties of the Merchant Ivory format with satisfying energy

BY Ian Bourland |

A Beirut-based organization supporting Syrian filmmakers captures the response of contemporary art to the wars of our time

BY Kaelen Wilson-Goldie |

The 16th edition of the festival peddles a political cinematography of hope, honesty and humility

BY Mitch Speed |

‘Each hypnotic frame of No Home Movie lasts just long enough to allow our minds to wander, summoning recollections of domestic spaces’

BY Hedi El Kholti |

Isao Takahata’s landmark 1988 anime, which now receives its US theatrical release, crafts a dark moral universe through moments of poignant stillness

BY Darran Anderson |

In decontextualizing the former Vice President from geo-political circumstance, Adam McKay’s film threatens to add gloss to Cheney’s reputation

BY John Menick |

‘By its closing scenes, I felt compelled to stand up and clap’

BY Yung Ma |

Workshopping a new book project at Porto/Post/Doc, the theorist and filmmaker who diagnosed how Hollywood reinforced patriarchal codes

BY Ela Bittencourt |

It’s possible to think of the director as a troll first and serious director second – this is understandable, but regrettable

BY Vadim Rizov |

Kino Classics’s new release attempts to redress a story of cinema centred on white male accomplishment

BY Nick Pinkerton |

‘Cinematic’ is often overused, but Roeg’s films showed how minds and memories wander back and forth in time, colouring our experience of the world

BY Dan Fox |

The creative friction between director and writer distracts from a film dedicated to quietly empowering the marginalized

BY Charles Bramesco |

Screening as part of the London Palestine Film Festival, recent archival research is uncovering important films once thought lost forever

BY Nathan Geyer |

With the increased telling of refugee stories the film industry may claim to be listening, but the real power remains in the editorial chair

BY Ismail Einashe |

From 14th-century frescos in Siena to a refugee camp in Greece, Astra Taylor's new documentary examines the corrosion of electoral politics

BY Dan Hancox |

Monrovia, Indiana, a folksy, novelistic tale of white America, plays somewhere between documentary, cliché and ghost story

BY Sierra Pettengill |