Four new films to see this week: Scream 7, Sirat, All You Need Is Kill and Amplified
Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox and Sergi López feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of February 27th
Amplified: The Exportation of the Culture Wars – disquieting study of weaponised rhetoric
Mike Sheridan’s first feature begins as study of toxic US discourse and expands into sobering excavation of Dublin unrest
All You Need Is Kill: Imaginative time-loop anime never leaves viewers feeling stuck
Kenichiro Akimoto’s film departs from Hollywood cousin Edge of Tomorrow with Skittle colours and shift in perspective
Oliver Laxe on the making of desert rave epic Sirat: ‘You jump into the abyss’
‘Film-maker of the senses’ on his apocalyptic, Oscar-nominated sensation and being a ‘freak’ in Spain
Four new films to see this week: The Secret Agent, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, The Testament of Ann Lee and The Moment
Charli XCX, Rose Byrne, Amanda Seyfried and Wagner Moura feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of February 20th, 2026
Oscar nominee Rose Byrne: ‘When I go through passport control in Ireland they say welcome home’
The star on the ‘incendiary’ If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, her Australian identity and women in comedy
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You: Maternal stress becomes searing, breathless psychodrama
Rose Byrne, Jessie Buckley’s biggest Oscar rival, is extraordinary in Mary Bronstein’s film
The Secret Agent: Danger hums in nervy Brazilian thriller
Labyrinthine film set during military dictatorship evokes 1970s conspiracy chillers
Four new films to see this week: ‘Wuthering Heights’, Crime 101, The Day the Earth Blew Up and Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
Margot Robbie, Jacob Elordi, Chris Hemsworth and Mark Ruffalo feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of February 13th, 2026
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain review: Playful, gorgeous and emotionally impactful
This animation, set in 1960s Japan, reimagines an early colonial childhood as a period of intense metaphysical speculation
Life under Saddam Hussein: ‘A child being asked to bake a cake without flour or sugar was not absurd’
Hasan Hadi’s film The President’s Cake centres on a deceptively simple premise: every year, schoolchildren were selected to make offerings for Saddam’s birthday, an impossible burden
The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie revels in its cartoonish artifice
Directed by Peter Browngardt, the film is steeped in the grammar of the Looney Tunes’ golden age
Four new films to see this week: A Quiet Love, Send Help, My Father’s Shadow and Twinless
Rachel McAdams, Sope Dirisu, Dylan O’Brien, James Sweeney and Aisling Franciosi feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of February 6th, 2026
Twinless review: Grief is seldom this entertaining
James Sweeney turns what initially feels like a jolly, quirky bromance into something far darker, more complex and hilarious
My Father’s Shadow review: An intimate family portrait and a deceptively sprawling portrait of Lagos
Akinola Davies jnr’s film quietly marries personal and national histories in Nigeria