Maybe the thin air got to the creatives behind Paddington in Peru and left them a touch lightheaded.

What Happyend understands is that a dystopian hellscape never looks like one.

If you’ve been waiting for a quiet, contemplative, un-howly werewolf flick, Wolf Man is for you.

Italy’s 2023 box office champ There’s Still Tomorrow and director Paola Cortellesi have a few things to say. Sit down, Barbie.

Better Man takes its central metaphor to extremes and turns the biopic on its head.

Huzzah! It’s a new SEA Hellhole Thriller, Octopus with Broken Arms. Brace for impact.

Kiyoshi Kurosawa almost gets there in his grey market, online mob screed Cloud. Almost.

We Live in Time is standard romantic tearjerker fare. But at least it has Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield.

Still not sure who they are in Them, Behind the Door.

As part 3s go, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 isn’t bad. Plus it has Keanu Reeves.

Well, at least The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim is just one film.

Donnie Yen positions himself as more than just an ass-kicker in The Prosecutor.

Jill Leung drops another time-and-space bending romance in Last Song for You, and holy crap it works.

This again. No, really. Mufasa: The Lion King is every Disney remake ever.

Here isn’t Forrest Gump II, but it might as well be.

Conclave is a religious thriller about an election, so there’s plenty of backstabbing and manipulation.

Oh come on, you know there’s worse out there than Kraven The Hunter.

Hou Hsiao-hsien protégé Huang Xi’s multi-generational drama Daughter’s Daughter is a classic woman’s picture.

Jia Zhangke heads back to his favourite wells in Caught by the Tides.

Strange Darling runs the cat-and-mouse serial killer genre through a sexual politics blender. It’s fabulous.