THREE STARS A pastry afficiando is wrestling with temporal temptation. The Pope drops by to help out. COMEDY DRAMA ITALY Italian #HOLYCANNOLI Starring Pif, Carlos Hipólito Religion and romance have long made for uneasy bedfellows, but HOLY CANNOLI finds a novel way to bring the two together: through Italian cakes. Inspired by a meeting with the Pope, Pif’s comedy-drama considers what happens when earthly appetites and heavenly intervention become difficult to distinguish. It

FOUR STARS A billionaire businessman has caused a chain of climate catastrophes. Now he's trying to save humanity, and maybe make a buck or two along the way. COMEDY DRAMA US English #DIGGERMOVIE Starring Tom Cruise, Riz Ahmed Climate change has provided fertile ground for cinematic satire, from the suburban absurdities of DOWNSIZING to the apocalyptic finger-pointing of DON’T LOOK UP! Alejandro González Iñárritu joins that lineage with a considerably bigger shovel, digging

THREE STARS A Danish architect wins a competition to design a new monument for Paris. It goes well until politicians and bureaucrats weigh in on the project. PERIOD DRAMA FRANCE French #LAGRANDEARCHE Starring Claes Bang, Sidse Babett Knudsen Australian audiences will feel an uncomfortable sense of déjà vu watching THE GREAT ARCH. Here is the story of attempting to build a grand architectural vision while politicians and bean-counters try to square the curve. Leaders want sta

THREE AND A HALF STARS Wile E. Coyote has had enough of ACME products exploding in his face. He gets lawyered up and takes on the corporation. COMEDY ANIMATION US English #COYOTEVSACME Starring Wile E. Coyote (Genius), Will Forte Anyone who grew up believing that Wile E. Coyote was a victim of poor product testing rather than his own questionable engineering was on to something. Frustrated by the failure of his latest rocket boots, Wile hires a lawyer in that weird nexus wher

THREE AND A HALF STARS Young Nico is sent to spend the summer with his great aunt in Sicily. The first thing she does is confiscate his mobile phone. PERIOD DRAMA ITALY Italian #GIOIAMIA Starring Marco Fiore, Aurora Quattrocchi There’s a considerable amount to like about SWEETHEART (GiIOIA MIA), Margherita Spampinato’s gentle coming-of-age story about an eleven-year-old Roman boy, Nico (Marco Fiore), sent to spend the summer with his great-aunt Gela (Aurora Quattrocchi) in a

THREE AND A HALF STARS France falls to the Nazis. In exile, General De Gaulle foments a resistance movement that would change the course of the war. PERIOD DRAMA FRANCE French #DEGAULLE Starring Simon Abkarian, Simon Russell Beale DE GAULLE: RESISTANCE is an ambitious and surprisingly gripping historical epic which makes its considerable running time feel rather less daunting than it has any right to. This is a defiantly mounted first chapter in a larger story, charting Char

TWO AND A HALF STARS An ambassador has died as has the husband of an aristocrat. Could the two events be related? Fortunately Detective Maigret is on the case. DRAMA FRANCE French #MAIGRET Starring Denis Podalydès, Irene Jacob The sheen in which Pascal Bonitzer has wrapped MAIGRET AND THE DEAD LOVER is a delight of nostalgia-France, from the trench coat and pipe, to the cafés, galleries and restaurants. Denis Podalydès makes a terrific Maigret, all weary stares and Gallic imp

TWO AND A HALF STARS With a new show coming up, artist Erika Tracy hires inexperienced Elliot as her sexual muse. What could possibly go wrong? COMEDY US English #IWANTYOURSEX Starring Olivia Wilde, Cooper Hoffman It’s been a while between drinks for Gregg Araki. More than a decade, in fact, which is a long time for a filmmaker who once made sexual transgression look like a competitive sport. I WANT YOUR SEX is his return to feature filmmaking, and while it’s certainly raises

FOUR STARS As Palestinian villages revolt against British colonial rule, Yusuf has to navigate competing interests and escalating unrest. PERIOD DRAMA PALESTINE Arabic, English #PALESTINE36 Starring Karim Daoud Anaya, Jeremy Irons Annemarie Jacir’s PALESTINE 36 is an engaging, impeccably produced historical drama about how the future of Palestine was being shaped by decisions that would reverberate for generations. Set during the 1936 Arab Revolt against British rule, it is a

TWO AND A HALF STARS An aging, alcoholic and faithless writer summons his ex-wife and estranged sons. There is something on his mind he wants to discuss. DRAMA UK English #ANDSONS Starring Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton Families have a habit of sweeping uncomfortable truths under the carpet, but the Dyer family appears to have run out of rug. Bill Nighy plays Andrew Dyer, a celebrated novelist who has spent two decades hiding from the world after detonating his own family with a