Wright and O'Connor's arguably best work yet...

| Original Score: 4/4 | May 10, 2024

Writer-director Frank Berry’s film never devolves into melodrama – if anything, it may be understated to a fault – but he grounds her plight in an authentic mixture of daily frustrations and sporadic joys.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 10, 2024

“Aisha” resists tidy answers through the gentle force of its performances and by staying on the rebuffs and uncertainty Aisha suffers.

| May 9, 2024

Tom Comerford’s framing makes a coastal bus stop look like the loneliest place in the world. And Berry’s script – as with his star – is quietly seething.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 25, 2022

Wright’s portrait of everyday heroism is stunning. It won’t earn her a Best Actress Oscar (films this low-budget don’t get noticed by the Academy). But that doesn’t make her work any less impressive.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 18, 2022

Black Panther star Letitia Wright shows she’s not all about blockbusters with this small, moving story of a Nigerian woman seeking asylum.

| Nov 17, 2022

It’s an absorbing drama given sympathy and life by two very high-calibre performers.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 16, 2022

The scenes between the two leads are gripping and crackle with chemistry. The wider drama, and the incessant castigation of social inequality, sometimes feels slightly stilted.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 31, 2022

This sobering ode to the immigrant experience will leave audiences unsettled and hopefully reflective.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 21, 2022

A thoughtful and intelligent film, and it finds a gifted actor doing some very tricky things quite well.

| Original Score: B | Jun 16, 2022

It’s not an unfamiliar story, but Frank Berry’s delicate drama is immensely moving.

| Jun 13, 2022

Eschews histrionics in favor of a docudrama-like approach that’s all the more affecting for how authentic it feels. The result isn’t quite Kafka, but it’s closer than it should be.

| Jun 12, 2022

Beautifully observed and acted.

| Jun 12, 2022