Film

Silvia Lara is the recipient of the inaugural Deutsche Bank Frieze Los Angeles Film Award. Her film comprises poetic vignettes, capturing the essence of life in her home town of Whittier, California through the perspective of its residents

Despite a brilliant performance by Carey Mulligan, the post-#MeToo thriller is an anti-climax 

The films and books that kept us afloat in a calamitous year

The much-hyped festive blockbuster staring Kristen Stewart may be sold as heart-warming seasonal tale, but it presents as a painful watch, wrapped-up in outdated clichés of the queer experience

Remi Weekes transposes the classic haunted house genre to a mouldering council flat inhabited by South Sudanese refugees

The five-film series is an epic, tender portrait of London’s West Indian community

John Kelsey on how the French iconoclast rewrites film history, one image at a time

The new Netflix documentary is a distraction from the drive to regulate tech companies, including Netflix itself

The filmmaker’s latest documentary, Swimming Out till the Sea Turns Blue, is an object study of the generations affected by industrialization

Luca Guadagnino’s new HBO series treats identity like an Instagram filter

How Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings, Ed Webb-Ingall and Ayo Akingbade approach the closure of public space

The gothic tales of notorious racist H.P. Lovecraft provide source material for HBO’s new show about ‘the hauntedness of Black life’

The first blockbuster to return to theatres demonstrates Hollywood’s eagerness to ‘exploit bodily presence for profit’ during the pandemic

Primer (2004) asks what happens when history is always hanging in the balance

The artist’s exhibition at Galerie Imane Farès, Paris, shows the multiple faces of resistance

Amidst cycles of protest, Zoé Samudzi considers Mati Diop’s film in which young men ‘return’ to the shores of Dakar from their fatal attempt to emigrate overseas

Coel's show ‘I May Destroy You’ daringly takes on the intricacies of sexual violence

‘First Cow’, the director’s seventh feature film, which began streaming 10 July, offers a humanistic alternative to the grand myths of Manifest Destiny

Mark Cousins’s ‘Women Make Film’ celebrates 130 years of cinema by 183 female directors 

In the director’s sweeping new Vietnam War film, it is never clear ‘who is the colonizer and who is the colonized’