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Memoria review: A surreal and immersive journey into the human mind

5 January 2022

Apichatpong Weerasethakul's latest slow cinema offering, Memoria, ponders what we do and don't understand about the nature of reality

(from left) Guy (Gael García Bernal) and Prisca (Vicky Krieps) in Old

Old review: M. Night Shyamalan's stylish horror of accelerated ageing

2 August 2021

Old, directed by The Sixth Sense’s M. Night Shyamalan, is a stylish sci-fi horror film about a group of tourists stranded on a beach who age at an accelerated rate

Netflix's The Dig review: An archaeology drama with impeccable acting

3 February 2021

Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan star in Netflix’s film The Dig, which reimagines the excavation at Sutton Hoo, where a 27-metre burial ship was uncovered

Second Spring review: A brave film about agency and cognitive decline

13 January 2021

In Second Spring, an archaeologist who has developed a lesser-known form of dementia that alters her personality, unmasks her new life – to the dismay of friends and family