Latest Staff Picks
The films listed below are Alice's Latest Staff Picks, finding their way into this category generally as a result of agreement between staff that they have real merit for one reason or another. Most titles represent a safe choice for those that find choosing a film difficult or are bewildered by Alice's depth and breadth...
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Priscilla (2023)
6.6/10
Director: Sofia Coppola
Starring: Cailee Spaeny, Jacob Elordi
When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock 'n' roll superstar becomes someone entirely une... Read more
Scrapper (2023)
7/10
Starring: Harris Dickenson, Lola Campbell
Living alone in her London flat, 12-year-old Georgie must confront reality when her estranged father, Jason, shows up out of nowhere. Uninterested in... Read more
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023)
7.2/10
Starring: Maya Rudolph, John Cena, Micah Abbey, Shamon Brown Jr., Seth Rogen, Jackie Chan,...
After years of being sheltered from the human world, the Turtle brothers set out to win the hearts of New Yorkers and be accepted as normal teenagers.... Read more
Sisu (2023)
6.9/10
Starring: Jorma Tommila, Aksel Hennie, Jack Doolan
During the last days of World War II, a solitary prospector crosses paths with Nazis on a scorched-earth retreat in northern Finland. When the soldier... Read more
You Won't Be Alone (2022)
6.4/10
Director: Goran Stolevski
Starring: Noomi Rapace, Anamaria Marinca, Alice Englert, Felix Maritaud, Carloto Cotta, Sa...
Set in an isolated mountain village in 19th century Macedonia, You Won't Be Alone follows a young girl who is kidnapped and then transformed into a wi... Read more
Living (2022)
7.2/10
Director: Oliver Hermanus
Starring: Bill Nighy, Alex Sharp, Adrian Rawlins, Oliver Chris, Michael Cochrane, Lia Will...
In 1950s London, a humorless bureaucrat decides to take time off work to experience life after receiving a grim diagnosis. Read more
Triangle of Sadness (2022)
7.3/10
Director: Ruben Östlund
Starring: Woody Harrelson, Zlatko Buric, Iris Berben, Amanda Walker, Oliver Ford Davies
In Ruben Östlund's wickedly funny Palme d'Or winner, social hierarchy is turned upside down, revealing the tawdry relationship between power and beaut... Read more
Babylon (2022)
7.2/10
Director: Damien Chazelle
Starring: Brad Pitt, Diego Calva, Margot Robbie, Flea, Olivia Wilde
A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravi... Read more
The Fabelmans (2022)
7.6/10
Director: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, Gabriel LaBelle, Judd Hirsch, David Ly...
Growing up in post-World War II era Arizona, young Sammy Fabelman aspires to become a filmmaker as he reaches adolescence, but soon discovers a shatte... Read more
The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
7.7/10
Director: Martin McDonagh
Starring: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon, Pat Shortt, Barry Keoghan
Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both of them. Read more