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Wendy Ide's film of the week

Films of the week reviewed by the Observer's film critic Wendy Ide

  • Deniz Celiloğlu and Musab Ekici as Samet and Kenan in About Dry Grasses.

    About Dry Grasses review – rich, engrossing Turkish epic with a twist

    A village teacher is accused of inappropriate behaviour in Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s handsome, beautifully performed, three-and-a-half-hour fable
  • Zoe Ziegler and Julianne Nicholson in Janet Planet.

    Janet Planet review – Annie Baker’s tender, perceptive mother-daughter drama

    Julianne Nicholson and newcomer Zoe Ziegler are a dream team in the Pulitzer prize-winning US playwright’s richly cinematic film debut
  • Maika Monroe in profile as a bedraggled looking Agent Lee Harker in Longlegs, screaming in a car in a dull, grey forest setting

    Longlegs review – Maika Monroe and Nicolas Cage grip in brooding horror thriller

    Monroe plays a dogged, antisocial FBI agent on the trail of Cage’s occult serial killer in the latest buzzy, atmospheric film from Osgood Perkins
  • Eddie Murphy aiming a hand gun in Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F.

    Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F review – Eddie Murphy’s megawatt charisma lights up creaking sequel

    Reprising his role as lovable undercover cop Axel Foley, the actor – and some full-on car-chase carnage – can’t disguise a plot several decades past its sell-by date in debut director Mark Molloy’s slickly packaged action comedy
  • This image released by Searchlight Pictures shows Emma Stone, foreground left, and Jesse Plemons in a scene from "Kinds of Kindness." (Atsushi Nishijima/Searchlight Pictures via AP)

    Kinds of Kindness review – Yorgos Lanthimos reunites with Emma Stone for overlong but admirable triptych

    Stone, Jesse Plemons and Willem Dafoe head the cast in the Poor Things director’s odd three-part study of control whose central idea proves elusive
  • A black and white image of a child behind razor wire looking up at armed border guard.

    Green Border review – an angry and urgent masterpiece about Europe’s migrant crisis

    Agnieszka Holland’s vital drama about refugees stranded between Belarus and Poland could hardly be more topical
  • Jesse Eisenberg in Sasquatch Sunset.

    Sasquatch Sunset review – brilliant bigfoot oddity is unexpectedly moving

    The Zellner brothers follow a family of grunting sasquatches played by Jesse Eisenberg and Riley Keough in a wonderful one-off
  • Viggo Mortensen and Vicky Krieps side by side on horseback.

    The Dead Don’t Hurt review – Vicky Krieps is a woman of substance in Viggo Mortensen’s offbeat western

    The actor-director’s second film behind the camera is a quirky spin on the genre given true grit by its magnetic heroine
  • Léa Seydoux and George MacKay in period costumes.

    The Beast review – Léa Seydoux mesmerises in wildly ambitious sci-fi romance

    Bertrand Bonello’s head-spinning Henry James adaptation set in 1910 Paris, 2014 LA and an AI-controlled 2044 casts a dreamlike spell
  • USA. Anya Taylor-Joy in (C)Warner Bros. Pictures new film: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024). 
Plot: The origin story of renegade warrior Furiosa before she teamed up with Mad Max in 'Fury Road'. 
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    Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga review – renegade warrior Anya Taylor-Joy ignites thunderous action prequel

    George Miller’s world-building spectacle is an assault on the senses that’s given a human heart by its remarkable star
  • Cailey Fleming in IF

    IF review – imaginary friends reunited in a kid-pleasing live-action fantasy

    Actor-director John Krasinski’s animated tale of an anxious tween and her make-believe buddies is not in Pixar’s league, but it boasts a heartfelt sweetness and an engaging young star
  • Kristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian leaning against a pick-up.

    Love Lies Bleeding review – Kristen Stewart keeps it real in deliciously lurid outlaw romance

    Rose Glass’s follow-up to her acclaimed Saint Maud is a scorchingly sexy, darkly violent tale of a gym manager’s love affair with a bodybuilder
  • Mike Faist, Zendaya and Josh O'Connor in Challengers, sitting on a bed smiling

    Challengers review – Zendaya holds court in absurdly sexy three-way tennis romance

    Luca Guadagnino’s sizzling, sharply scripted drama, co-starring Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist, is such fun it’s almost indecent
  • Daisy Ridley as Fran in Sometimes I Think About Dying, standing uneasily in a doorway, looking at other people having a laugh Plot: Fran, who likes to think about dying, makes the new guy at work laugh, which leads to dating and more. Now the only thing standing in their way is Fran herself.
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    Sometimes I Think About Dying review – Daisy Ridley excels as shy office worker in offbeat comedy

    ​Rachel Lambert’s perceptive tale of a ​l​oner with a vividly imaginative inner life​ proves an unexpected showcase for the Star Wars actor​’s talents
  • Kirsten Dunst as a frontline photographer in Civil War.

    Civil War review – Alex Garland’s chilling dystopian thriller of journalists in a conflict-riven US

    The writer-director’s searing drama of reporters in the line of fire strips away political context to focus on the self-perpetuating nature of war
  • ‘Brings a fan’s appreciation to his film-making’: director-writer-star Dev Patel as Kid in Monkey Man.

    Monkey Man review – Dev Patel directs and stars in a bloody revenge thriller

    The British actor’s directorial debut is a visceral love letter to global action cinema that’s an exhilarating, if messy, ride
  • Laure Calamy, centre, in The Origin of Evil with, clockwise from left, Céleste Brunnquell, Dominique Blanc, Jacques Weber, Doria Tillier and Véronique Ruggia Saura.

    The Origin of Evil review – Laure Calamy shines in enjoyably pulpy, Highsmith-esque thriller

    Arriving on a jetset Mediterranean island to meet the wealthy father she has never known, Calamy’s factory worker enters a vipers’ nest of hostility in Sébastian Marnier’s devious French psychodrama
  • Dog holding Robot's hands in a park.

    Robot Dreams review – bittersweet buddy movie is one of the best animations in recent years

    A lonely dog buys himself a robot companion and learns to see the world in a joyous new light in Spanish director Pablo Berger’s exquisite, Oscar-nominated film
  • Hinata Hiiragi (Yori) and Soya Kurokawa (Minato) in Monster, seen from behind looking through a window giving out on to sunlit vegetation

    Monster review – multifaceted mystery from Hirokazu Kore-eda

    The Japanese director of Shoplifters uses different takes on a single story to tell the fraught tale of two troubled boys
  • John Galliano in a big dark coat, hands in pockets, standing in the doorway of a house with a duck egg blue door and light pink facade

    High & Low: John Galliano review – Kevin Macdonald’s candid look at the fashion designer’s implosion

    The film-maker’s frank, even-handed documentary assesses the fallout from the former Dior creative director’s antisemitic tirade and his standing today
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