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Near the end of The Echo Chamber, in competition at this year's Venice Film Festival, Alicia Vikander asks Luca Marinelli, "Do you want me to leave?" Ironically, if the audience had been asked if they wanted an early exit, they might well have taken it.

Is Robert Pattinson out to "catch an Oscar" in Lance Oppenheim's exploration of the rise of Dateline's To Catch A Predator? It has been a busy 2026 for Pattinson. Only Anne Hathaway has had a busier release schedule this year... and with a baby on the way!

There is a certain irony that the documentary about Oasis's sold-out 2025 reunion tour would premiere at the Venice Film Festival. Because it was during the 2024 edition of La Biennale de Cinema that many film critics spent hours in between screenings, and sometimes during, no doubt, in the horrendous Ticketmaster online queues to try [...]

Politics and poetic profanity collide in Martin McDonagh's hilarious and heartbreaking Wild Horse Nine. Two friends, Chris (John Malkovich) and Lee (Sam Rockwell), sit in an airport lounge in Chile in 1973, waiting for a plane to Easter Island for a vacation to see "The Big Heads".

Set in 1990s Singapore, Ah Girl is the directorial debut of Ang Geck Geck Priscilla, who also wrote the screenplay. The drama focuses on seven-year-old Ang Swee Swee (Ong Xuan Jing)-referred to as Ah Girl by her family-as her life is marred by loneliness and coldness from her family.

Human Traffic meets Kneecap in Kieron J. Walsh's energetic, euphoric, ecstasy-fuelled adaptation of Ciarán McMenamin's novel set in his hometown of Enniskillen, aka the eponymous Skintown. It follows a very eventful 48 hours in the life of Vinnie, a young man who dreams of escaping a life spent navigating not only a dead-end job at [...]

Spa Weekend is the latest project from Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, known for writing The Hangover and directing Bad Moms. The comedy stars an ensemble cast that includes Leslie Mann, Anna Faris, Isla Fisher and Michelle Bateau as four lifelong friends. Set in LA, lawyer and single mom Jane (Mann), underappreciated personal assistant Sophie [...]

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Last year, Yu Yang released the sequel to his successful 2019 debut feature, Ne Zha. Although it was the director's second directorial project, Ne Zha 2 not only became the highest-grossing film of 2025 but the highest-grossing animated film ever. In short, the bar is set for China to deliver the next big animated hit: [...]

Unlike the two siblings at the heart of The Incomer, Edinburgh International Film Festival is an open and welcoming festival for films from all over the globe. However, it does not forget its roots. Hence, it opens this year's edition with former Filmhouse and EIFF alumnus Louis Paxton's debut existential comedy.