The British critic and programmer was a world renowned expert in East Asian cinema, helping to bring many major Asian filmmakers to international attention.

Jonathan Romney pays tribute to the Hungarian auteur whose uncompromising vision reshaped the possibilities of cinematic time and space, most famously in his seven-hour magnum opus Sátántangó.

Special Mention: Yes Dir. Nadav Lapid The Secret Agent Dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho Magellan Dir. Lav Diaz

Except Exit 8, The Chronology of Water and A Story About Fire, there’s no order of precedence.

Our annual international critics’ poll of 2025's best movies shows cinema thriving in a year of troubles

Hungarian director Ilfikó Enyedi’s new film Silent Frie…

A tremendously beautiful masterpiece. So restrained, so elegant. How long have we yearned to commune heart-to-heart with all living things, to converse flesh-to-spirit? Tender and beautiful, here plan...

Park Chan-wook’s latest film No Other Choice is a wildly successful anti-genre experiment, and more precisely, a dark, full-tilt revenge thriller that is complete anti Parasite. On the surface it func...

There are indeed some striking and moving moments of shallow sentimental value, but one must also admit that if anyone familiar with Ingmar Bergman’s great films (probably no one nowadays) will notice...

Film is a dream-making machine, and Bi Gan spends two and a half hours making us dream, interpreting those dreams, and finally destroying them. Five stories, five histories, the Fantasmer leads us thr...

Bob Ferguson (Leonardo DiCaprio) is laying on the couch…

If, somehow or in someways or just someone can help save nowadays creative drought and lack of inspiration Hollywood, there’s maybe one and only person could do, that is, Paul Thomas Anderson: His new...

No Rank, chronological order

A truly abstract experimental film masterpiece of art reach its peak of cinematic art: when Andy Warhol chose to present double projections of 1960s New York’s underground scenes split screen, it invi...

A list of 10 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Gang of Four (1989), Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974), Love on the Ground (1984), Duelle (1976) and La Belle Noiseuse (1991).

The festival served up its richest edition in years, with multiple standouts among the twenty-two films in contention for the Palme d’Or.

A list of 10 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Contempt (1963), Pierrot le Fou (1965), Breathless (1960), In Praise of Love (2001) and Histoire(s) du cinéma (1989).

A list of 10 films compiled on Letterboxd, including The Meetings of Anna (1978), Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975), Je Tu Il Elle (1974), No Home Movie (2015) and News from ...

A list of 100 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Persona (1966), The Meetings of Anna (1978), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Tokyo Story (1953) and Apocalypse Now (1979).