Lynne Ramsay returns with a raw, nerve-jangling portrait of new motherhood that slips between tenderness and terror. Jennifer Lawrence is a knockout as a woman unravelling in big-sky country.

Film details

• Director: Lynne Ramsay
• Runtime: 120 minutes
• Premiere: 20 November 2025
• Language & subtitles: English with Dutch subtitles
• Age rating: 12
• Where to watch: KINO, LantarenVenster, Cinerama

What’s the vibe?

Grace and Jackson flee city noise for a fixer-upper in Montana, hoping for quiet, a baby on the way, and a clean slate. The silence turns oppressive. Grace slips into a volatile fog that scares her husband and alarms the neighbours. Ramsay treats the material like a fever dream: black comedy peeks through, but the sound design and needle-drops keep you on edge. Expect: postpartum psychosis, rural isolation, surreal flashes, thunderous soundscape, jagged romance, gallows humour.

Trailer

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Why you might like it

• Eyes: handheld intimacy, nature’s vastness pressing in, sudden dreamlike ruptures.
• Heart: a couple groping for a lifeline as love meets illness and denial.
• Mind: thorny questions about care, stigma, and who gets to define reality when pain is invisible.

Critical reception

Cannes greeted the premiere with a reported nine-minute standing ovation, putting Lawrence and Ramsay straight into awards chatter. Early critic takes skew mixed-positive, praising craft and performances while debating how hard the style lands; expect the consensus to evolve as wider releases unfold. The soundtrack is earning special kudos for its bold, story-driven needle-drops. 

Scene to watch for

A messy, bittersweet wedding moment scored to John Prine’s In Spite of Ourselves; the song’s crooked warmth complicates everything you think you’re seeing. 

Recommended pairing

Go light before the screening, then take a slow riverside walk after to let the soundscape settle. Share warm hand pies or a thick slice of focaccia on a bench, swap favourite shots, and talk about the line between help and control. If it’s breezy, ride the tram a few stops past home and people-watch while you decide whether the ending offers hope or just hard truth.

Jafar Panahi’s Palme d’Or-winning film blends tragedy, humour and quiet resistance. A simple roadside incident becomes a haunting portrait of truth, guilt and survival in modern Iran.

Film details

• Premiere date: 6 November 2025
• Director: Jafar Panahi
• Runtime: 106 minutes
• Language & subtitles: Persian and English with Dutch subtitles
• Age rating: 12+
• Showing at: LantarenVenster, Cinerama, KINO

What’s the vibe?

Understated, gripping and quietly rebellious. Panahi turns everyday misfortune into a layered social thriller that unravels with patience and precision. The tension never explodes — it seeps through each interaction, exposing a system built on fear and memory.

Trailer

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Why you might like it

• For the eyes: Sparse Iranian landscapes and beautifully natural light amplify every emotion.
• For the heart: A tender story of grief and forgiveness beneath the layers of politics.
• For the mind: Examines how guilt, trauma and truth intertwine when freedom is never guaranteed.

Critical reception

Winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes, It Was Just an Accident has been hailed as one of Panahi’s most humane and courageous works. Rolling Stone called it “extraordinary. The work of a master.” Critics praise its delicate balance of realism and irony, and its subtle defiance against censorship.

Scene to watch for

The quiet dinner sequence where a confession hovers in the air but no one dares to speak — Panahi at his most precise.

Recommended pairing

Pair with a late-night tea and silence afterwards. This film lingers, asking more questions than it answers.

Need-to-knows

Filmed without official permission from the Iranian regime, It Was Just an Accident continues Panahi’s legacy of making cinema under restriction. It’s both a personal reckoning and a universal meditation on the ripple effect of chance and conscience.

Edgar Wright takes Stephen King’s dystopia and gives it a razor-sharp, neon sprint. Glen Powell leads a cat-and-mouse thriller that toys with our love of spectacle.

Film details

• Director: Edgar Wright
• Runtime: 133 minutes
• Premiere: 13 November 2025
• Language & subtitles: English with Dutch subtitles
• Age rating: 16
• Where to watch: KINO, Cinerama 

What’s the vibe?

In a near-future America ruled by ratings, out-of-work father Ben Richards joins a televised survival game to pay for his daughter’s treatment. If he stays alive for 30 days while professional hunters track him, he wins life-changing money. What he does not expect is to become a public favourite and a threat to the system that exploits him. Expect a pacey, stylised chase movie with sharp jabs at media spectacle and manufactured outrage.

Expect: dystopian satire, lethal game show tension, media manipulation, punk aesthetics, neon-lit chases, crowd psychology, father-daughter stakes.

Trailer

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Why you might like it

• Eyes: kinetic set-pieces, hard cuts, TV-studio glare against rain-slicked streets.
• Heart: a parent’s gamble for a child’s future, complicity vs conscience in a crowd that keeps watching.
• Mind: questions about attention economies, algorithmic outrage, and what counts as truth when everything is a show.

Critical reception

At the time of writing, full review totals are still rolling in. Early chatter highlights Wright’s propulsion and Powell’s charisma, while debate centres on how fiercely the satire bites. Expect scores and consensus to firm up after opening weekend; this space is best updated once the numbers land.

Scene to watch for

An early on-air hunt that flips from glossy studio spectacle to raw street-level scramble; it nails the show’s fake polish vs real jeopardy.

Recommended pairing

Skip the heavy dinner and grab warm hand pies or a chunky focaccia to share on a late wander by the Maas; talk through your favourite hunt moment, pick a side on whether you would switch the cameras off, and if the weather is moody, ride the tram a few extra stops just to people-watch while you unpack the ending.

Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons star in Bugonia, a surreal, pitch-black satire about paranoia, power and the human urge to make sense of chaos.

Film details

• Premiere date: 30 October 2025
• Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
• Runtime: 119 minutes
• Language & subtitles: English with Dutch subtitles
• Age rating: 16+
• Showing at: Cinerama, KINO, LantarenVenster

What’s the vibe?

Delightfully unsettling. Bugonia blends Lanthimos’ trademark deadpan humour with sci-fi and psychological horror. It’s a claustrophobic hostage story that turns into a philosophical debate about fear and delusion — both hilarious and horrifying.

Trailer

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Why you might like it

• For the eyes: Stark, geometric visuals and colour palettes reminiscent of The Favourite.
• For the heart: Plemons’ tragic sincerity collides beautifully with Stone’s cold intellect.
• For the mind: A bizarre exploration of conspiracy thinking and how fragile truth can be.

Critical reception

Critics are calling Bugonia “Lanthi-mos at his most unhinged.” Early reviews highlight its sharp blend of humour, tension and surrealism. Emma Stone continues her creative partnership with the director after Poor Things, while Jesse Plemons’ performance has been described as “a masterclass in nervous breakdowns.”

Scene to watch for

The interrogation scene where Stone’s CEO calmly debates her captors about morality — equal parts terrifying and hilarious.

Recommended pairing

Watch with a group of friends who love to argue about meaning. Afterwards, discuss whether you think she really was an alien.

Need-to-knows

Bugonia is a loose remake of the 2003 South Korean cult film Save the Green Planet! It channels that story’s anarchic energy into a distinctly Lanthimos world — where rationality breaks down and everyone might be right, or wrong, at the same time.