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Phil Hoad

Phil Hoad is a reporter, features writer and critic based in the south of France. Twitter @phlode

March 2025

  • Mortal pressure … Christo Grozev in Antidote.

    Antidote review – gripping study of dissidents and whistleblowers in Putin’s crosshairs

  • Film still: Satu: Year of the Rabbit (2025) written and directed by Joshua Trigg

    Satu – Year of the Rabbit review – scene-stealing runaways on picturesque road trip across Laos

  • Don't Turn Out the Lights.

    Don’t Turn Out the Lights review – party-animal horror turns into backwoods road trip to hell

  • Eloise Smyth and Stephanie Beacham in Grey Matter.

    Grey Matter review – feelgood Alzheimer’s film is well-meaning life-lesson comedy

February 2025

  • Lynda Schenker with Hen in Food For Thought Documentary

    Food for Thought review – breezy documentary makes a light meal of vegan debates

  • Dragon Z: Battle of Gods film still.

    Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods review – classic anime has cosmic charm

  • Page, right, as Madame Anais in Belle de Jour, 1967, with Catherine Deneuve in the title role.

    Geneviève Page obituary

  • Inspired by impressionists … Anne Louise Lambert in the 1975 classic.

    How we made
    ‘Clambering about in Victorian boots was brutal’: how we made Picnic at Hanging Rock

  • People (Ludzie) review – multi-thread epic offers raw tales from the Russia-Ukraine war

  • Intercepted review – phone taps are a chilling glimpse into Russian soldiers’ minds in Ukraine

  • ‘They wanted to attack me’: Aurore Clément on violent premieres and smuggling bananas for Brando

  • The Dead Thing review – sexy state-of-dating thriller opens up the algorithmic death-drive

  • Mom review – neonatal horror leaves new mother in nightmare of guilt and terror

  • Scarlet Winter review – chopped-up narrative method decorates corpse-disposal thriller

January 2025

  • Detective Chinatown 1900

    Detective Chinatown 1900 review – blockbusting Chinese franchise goes back in time

  • Ludicrous lucha libre … Dark Match.

    Dark Match review – satanism meets wrestling in backwoods grindhouse gorefest

  • Bug hunt … Anthony Mackie in Elevation.

    Elevation review – high-altitude monster thriller offers twist on the Quiet Place formula

  • Joyena Sun in Grafted.

    Grafted review – Face/Off-style skin-graft horror has layers of punky attitude

  • Dead Before They Wake review – brutal grooming-gang thriller marries mawkishness and bloodlust

  • Ranked
    From Mulholland Drive to Twin Peaks via Lost Highway: all David Lynch’s films and TV shows – ranked

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