Cold Open · Essay · dec 18, 2025

The Winter Films Everyone Is Talking About

A pre-Christmas review roundup that lingers on three films deserving more attention than they've received. Joachim Trier's Sentimental Value — a quiet companion to The Worst Person in the World — is everything you'd want from a Trier winter film. Harris Dickerson's debut Urchin announces a new voice in British cinema. And Rose Byrne turns in one of the year's most undervalued performances in a film that, like the best gifts, arrives without adequate warning. Plus: the festive season, the cinema programme, and the argument about what to watch on Christmas Eve.

Film Journalist · Celebrating Cinema

In this final review roundup before the festive season, hosts Laura Gommans and Elliot Bloom take a look at some new releases that should be on your radar this winter. Joachim Trier returns with Sentimental Value, a film about filmmaking and a tender companion to his celebrated feature The Worst Person in the World. Harris Dickerson steps behind the camera for the first time with Urchin, a striking debut anchored by a magnetic performance from Frank Dillane.

Rose Byrne offers one of the most moving turns of her career as she navigates the weight of single parenthood in Mary Bronstein’s If I Had Legs I Would Kick You. Finally, Left Handed Girl from Shih Ching Tsou offers a quietly affecting study of intimacy as it traces the intertwined lives of a mother and her two daughters, shaped through Tsou’s long standing creative partnership with Sean Baker.

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