Contributor David Jenkins

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Review

Mission: Impossible: The Final Reckoning review – delivers the big swings

Ethan and the team take another crack at foiling a self-learning AI monster that’s hellbent on a global apocalypse.

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3
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Festivals

Enzo – first-look review

Robin Campillo completed this final feature by Laurent Cantet, a beautiful, bittersweet study of a teenage boy finding his way in life.
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Review

It’s Not Me review – an innovative homage to Carax’s main muse

Leos Carax delves through his own personal archive in this glorious essay film that’s in thrall to Jean-Luc Godard.

4
Anticipation
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4
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Review

The Extraordinary Miss Flower review – an eccentric music doc

Unearthed love letters provide creative fuel for Icelandic singer Emilíana Torrini in this charming, music-fuelled character study.

4
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
3
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Review

Julie Keeps Quiet review – a slick, steely piece of storytelling

A young tennis star refuses to open about an abusive coach in Leonardo Van Dijl’s impressive feature debut.

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4
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3
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Review

The Penguin Lessons review – think Dead Penguins Society

Steve Coogan co-stars with a penguin in this gentle dramedy from Peter Cattaneo that never quite matches up to the true story.

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2
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Festivals

The 2025 Cannes Film Festival line-up is here!

Wes Anderson, Kelly Reichardt, Joachim Trier and Julia Ducournau are among the contenders for this year’s Golden Palm.
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Review

The Return review – skirts on the am-dram

Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche star as Odysseus and Penelope in Uberto Pasolini's retelling of Homer's epic.

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Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
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Review

The Amateur review – extremely solid, extremely unspectacular

Rami Malek struggles in this boilerplate thriller as a CIA operative out to kill the men that murdered his wife.

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2
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2
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Review

When Autumn Falls review – another year, another Ozon

This lightweight Chabrolian country drama from François Ozon sees an elderly retiree with a complex past trying to do right by her family.

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Anticipation
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Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect

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