Dylan Huw

José Ramón Soroiz gives a spirited performance as a newly single gay man whose sexual freedom is cut short by illness in this well-crafted crowdpleaser that puts its focus squarely on the people. 26 September 2025 Reviewed from the 2025 San Sebastian Film Festival For Vicente (José Ramón Soroiz), septuagenarian protagonist of wry Spanish drama-comedy Maspalomas, the metaphorical closet was his refuge and trap for the first 50 years of his life.

The acclaimed actor makes imaginative choices with his first feature, an exploration of addiction and homelessness led by an outstanding performance from Frank Dillane. 30 September 2025 In the opening scenes of his directorial debut Urchin, Harris Dickinson keeps us at a distance from his protagonist Michael (Frank Dillane).

Co-conceptualised by documentarian Courtney Stephens and actor-writer Callie Hernandez, Invention gives metafictive form to the all-consuming, inarticulable uncanniness of fresh grief. We encounter Carrie (several characters’ names are slight variations on their performers) dazedly navigating the bureaucratic blandness accompanying the death of her father.