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• Ghosts (2020)

  Review preview for Ghosts

  Shot with a fluid intimacy by cinematographer Baris Özbiçer, Oyay's film gathers momentum and an increasingly punk energy as it goes.

  Four lives intersect on day in Istanbul.
• The Ghosts Of Monday (2022)

  Review preview for The Ghosts Of Monday

  The film is pulled in multiple directions at once, and pulled apart.

  The host of a recently cancelled TV series is invited to Cyprus to make a pilot about the tragically famous Hotel Gula where more than a hundred people died in mysterious circumstances 25 years ago.
• Ghosts Of War (2020)

  Review preview for Ghosts Of War

  If Bress had kept things simple, this would have been workmanlike.

  Five soldiers are assigned to hold a French chateau that was formerly occupied by the Nazi high command, only to encounter a supernatural enemy.
• Ghosts With Shit Jobs (2012)

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  Ghosts With Shit Jobs may not hit the bullseye with all of its satirical pot shots, but it is destined to gain a cult following at the very least

  A popular Chinese TV show, Window on the World, looks at life in the economically deprived West in 2040.
• The Ghost Cat And The Mysterious Shamisen (1938)

  Review preview for The Ghost Cat And The Mysterious Shamisen

  Scratchy and distorted though the sound and image might be in places, the warping of tones and blurring associated with old film here actually enhances the atmosphere.

  Supernatural revenge beckons after a woman commits a jealous murder.
• Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai (1999)

  Review preview for Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai

  Forest Whitaker's presence is so forceful that you don't want to think about the absurdity of his character.

  A modern-day contract killer in New York, who works according to the Samurai code.
• Ghost Light (2018)

  Review preview for Ghost Light

  There's an element of luvvieness here that will annoy some viewers but as a whole, the play exhibits a dry wit that keeps it from getting too sentimental.

  A theatre troupe finds itself in trouble after an actor disregards the warnings associated with performing Macbeth.
• Ghost Mask: Scar (2018)

  Review preview for Ghost Mask: Scar

  Though there's a soap opera character to the overarching drama, it's in subtle moments that the film excels.

  A young woman searching for her missing sister meets a mysterious plastic surgeon.
• The Ghost Of Peter Sellers (2018)

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  A must-see warning for all would-be filmmakers.

  In 1973, director-on-the-rise Peter Medak nabbed notoriously difficult comic genius and box-office star Peter Sellers for his new pirate comedy, Ghost In The Noonday Sun. Sellers immediately began sabotaging the film.
• Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance In 3D (2011)

  Review preview for Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance In 3D

  Cage here continues the recent return to his legendary loony best.

  Johnny Blaze returns as the Ghost Rider, who must stop the devil taking human form on earth.
• Ghost School (2025)

  Review preview for Ghost School

  Arsalan really does have something special.

  Rabia, a ten-year-old Pakistani girl, sets out to find why her only school in the village is closed.
• Ghost Ship (2002)

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  By the time the surprise ending is revealed, interest cannot be revived.

  Spooky things happen when a salvage crew board a stricken liner.
• Ghost Stories (2017)

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  When it's not busy trying to impress, the film conjures up a lot of atmosphere and succeeds in disturbing.

  A trio of spooky tales.
• Ghost Town (2026)

  Review preview for Ghost Town

  More poetic than narrative, its disparate stories connecting as a sort of shared elegy to what and whom has been lost.

  Documentary takes a ride in a series of taxis in a Japanese city that was devastated by a 2011 tsunami.
• Ghost Town Anthology (2019)

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  The bleak chill of the Quebecois winter seeps into the very bones of Denis Côté's latest film, giving a sense of aching longing to the action.

  After a man dies in a car accident, time seems to lose all meaning for the residents of a small town... and then strangers begin to appear.
• A Ghost Waits (2020)

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  There's a melancholy undercurrent to the tale throughout, but that only makes its upbeat moments more delightful.

  A man's job requires him to clean a house, which turns out to be haunted. In the course of trying to exorcise the ghost, he falls in love with her.
• Ghost World (2001)

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  Buscemi gives one of his finest performances.

  Teenage rebel makes friends with middle-aged jazz collector and discovers alienation.
• Giant (2017)

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  The story, built on the shifting relationship between the two brothers, holds considerable interest, even though the plot starts to ramble.

  Two brothers find their relationship tested after one of them becomes a magnet for attention because of his gigantism.
• The Giants (2011)

  Review preview for The Giants

  Whenever the three kids are together and, basically, bullshitting and fooling around the way teenage boys do, the film works like a charm.

  Coming-of-age yarn which takes a cue from Mark Twain and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
• Giant Killer Ant (2017)

  Review preview for Giant Killer Ant

  If the concept appeals to you, you're likely to find it one of the most entertaining films of the year.

  When the 1989 'one-hit-wonder' glam metal band Sonic Grave embark on a trip to Coachella in the hope of making a comeback, their peyote trip pit stop in Joshua Tree incites an attack by giant ants.
• Giddy Stratospheres (2021)

  Review preview for Giddy Stratospheres

  The characters feel real, their lives believably chaotic.

  A young woman tries to come to terms with bereavement in the London indie music scene in 2007.
• Gift Horse (1952)

  Review preview for Gift Horse

  The domestic detailing, while interesting, does affect the pace and structure of the film, as for a while the story arc seems rather unclear, before things rev up in the final third.

  A British crew man a US destroyer that has been brought out of retirement to help the war effort - and head on a dangerous mission.
• The Gig Is Up (2021)

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  There are several places where statistics are given without context, and the background reading is a gloss of imagery.

  Documentary digs into the gig economy.
• Giliap (1975)

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  The real and the absurd walk arm in arm here.

  The tribulations and potential romance of a small town hotel waiter.
• The Gilligan Manifesto (2018)

  Review preview for The Gilligan Manifesto

  Soling's own argument is stronger than these but only if one considers the series as propaganda flying so far beneath the radar that one wonders how much influence it could actually have.

  A documentary arguing that Gilligan's Island was intended to sell the idea of Marxism to Americans.
• Gil Scott-Heron And His Amnesia Express - Tales Of Gil (1990)

  Review preview for Gil Scott-Heron And His Amnesia Express - Tales Of Gil

  More than enough for fans to enjoy.

  Performance by the social commentator.
• Gimme Truth (2026)

  Review preview for Gimme Truth

  Does a good job of carrying the general viewer from laughter to sympathy and concern – maintaining a healthy awareness of how ludicrous many of these ideas are, yet reminding us of the vulnerability of many believers.

  Delve deep into the world of conspiracy theories in North America in this documentary.
• The Gingerbread Man (1998)

  Review preview for The Gingerbread Man

  In the end, the story twists itself stupid.

  A lawyer falls for a one-night stand girl and tries to protect her from her father.
• La Gioia (2025)

  Review preview for La Gioia

  This is a movie layered with meaning. A lipstick smudge turns into stigmata, a kiss can make you float and strangle you at the same time.

  Gioia is a high school teacher who has never known love beyond the suffocating grip of her parents, with whom she still lives. Her life shifts when she encounters Alessio, a student who uses his body as a means to get a few hundred euros to help his struggling mother.
• Gipsy Queen (2019)

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  If part of the trajectory has a familiar feel, it is given fresh verve by the social-realist backdrop.

  A Roma woman, who was the Roma Gypsy Queen, returns to boxing after becoming disillusioned with her life.
• Giraffe (2019)

  Review preview for Giraffe

  Remnants of bygone ways of life are beautifully shot in Giraffe.

  A Danish summer: A tunnel is being built to connect Denmark and Germany. An ethnologist comes to the island of Lolland to study its inhabitants and record their traditions and objects.
• Girl (2018)

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  Directed with admirable understatement and restraint.

  A teenage trans girl dreams of becoming a ballerina.
• Girl (2020)

  Review preview for Girl

  Bella Thorne gives a spiky, hard-eyed performance in the lead role as a young woman who had already steeled herself to do very bad things and just needs to find someone new to do them to.

  A young woman returns to her small hometown intent on killing her abusive father only to discover someone murdered him the day before. As the girl searches for answers, she uncovers a family legacy more dangerous than she'd imagined.
• Girl (2023)

  Review preview for Girl

  Although the issues of trauma and recovery being dealt with here are not exactly easy watching, Onashile shoots the film with a fluidity and grace.

  Eleven-year-old Ama and her mother, Grace, take solace in the gentle but isolated world they obsessively create. Ama’s growing up threatens the boundaries of their tenderness and forces Grace to reckon with a past she struggles to forget.
• A Girl's Band (2018)

  Review preview for A Girl's Band

  Watching the film I fell in love with at least half a dozen great bands and female performers.

  A former bassist chronicles the stories of female musicians in Argentina, their music and their activism.
• Girls Girls Girls (2022)

  Review preview for Girls Girls Girls

  The performances are all first class, with any one of the three leads capable of carrying a film on her own.

  Mimmi, Emma and Rönkkö are girls at the cusp of womanhood, trying to draw their own contours. In three consecutive Fridays two of them experience the earth-moving effects of falling in love, while the third goes on a quest to find something she’s never experienced before: pleasure.
• Girls On Film 2: Before Dawn (2017)

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  An excellent collection of short films on lesbian themes.

  An anthology of short films with lesbian characters.
• Girls On Film 3 (2018)

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  Impressively diverse.

  A compendium of short films about lesbian and bisexual women.
• Girls Will Be Girls (2024)

  Review preview for Girls Will Be Girls

  Panigrahi is pitch perfect in her debut role.

  In a strict boarding school nestled in the Himalayas, 16-year-old Mira discovers desire and romance. But her sexual, rebellious awakening is disrupted by her mother who never got to come of age herself.
• Girl America (2024)

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  Exploitation, abuse and neglect are only a part of the story. There is also a fearless pursuit of joy.

  A girl in an orphanage employs fantasy as a means of escape.
• The Girl And The Spider (2021)

  Review preview for The Girl And The Spider

  The Zürchers carefully construct their web of relationships, showing how a small vibration somewhere can lead to unexpected consequences elsewhere.

  Tensions ebb and flow as a young woman moves apartment.
• A Girl At My Door (2014)

  Review preview for A Girl At My Door

  This film includes a lot of material that will make viewers uncomfortable, but never gratuitously.

  A policewoman tries to help a young girl who is being abused by her violent stepdad.
• A Girl From Mogadishu (2019)

  Review preview for A Girl From Mogadishu

  A story brought dazzlingly to life by the talents of its veteran cast and crew

  The true story of Ifrah Ahmed, who fled war-torn Somalia in 2006 and became a campaigner against gender based violence and female genital mutilation.
• The Girl From The Other Side (2022)

  Review preview for The Girl From The Other Side

  It is breathtakingly beautiful – hard to look away from, in fact.

  A dark and monstrous creature becomes the guardian of an innocent human child.
• Girl In The Night (2026)

  Review preview for Girl In The Night

  Meticulously styled, Girl in The Night uses a blend of absurdity and deadpan humour to charm and delight its audience.

  A lonesome guy desperate for human connection decides to steal the bicycle of the town’s self-appointed vigilante; as the 'sole witness' of the crime, he is inducted into joining her nightly escapades.
• The Girl In The Park (2007)

  Review preview for The Girl In The Park

  A deceptively simple story, formulaic in places, but full of intriguing undercurrents.

  A woman whose daughter went missing 16 years ago becomes obsessed with a young woman she meets by chance.
• Girl In The Picture (2022)

  Review preview for Girl In The Picture

  There is a great deal to unravel here, and Borgman has put together an impressively detailed profile of the case.

  A young mother's mysterious death and her son's subsequent kidnapping blow open a decades-long mystery about the woman's true identity, and the murderous federal fugitive at the center of it all.
• The Girl In The Snow (2025)

  Review preview for The Girl In The Snow

  A handsome piece of cinematic work,

  1899. On a stormy night, Aimée, a young Republican schoolteacher, arrives in a snowy hamlet on the edge of the Alps. Despite the mistrust of the inhabitants, she is determined to shed light on their dark beliefs. As she blends into the life of the community, a sensual vertigo grows within her.
• A Girl Missing (2019)

  Review preview for A Girl Missing

  Fukada, who trusts in our ability to figure things out eventually...sprinkles clues and riddles throughout his account of the human condition in the 21st century.

  Ichiko works as a private nurse for a family she has almost become a part of. But when the youngest member of the family disappears, the kidnapper's identity causes trouble.
• The Girl Who Got Away (2021)

  Review preview for The Girl Who Got Away

  There's some great work in the first half of this film, with a smart script and decent performances all round. It has the makings of a really strong thriller.

  A serial killer escapes from prison, with dramatic consequences for the one girl who escaped her clutches.