In the nine months since Oliver Laxe’s stunning fourth film landed to gasps of (mostly approving) bewilderment at the Cannes film festival, critics have been struggling to find suitable comparisons.

If they gave awards for Most Tense Movie Experience of the year, Óliver Laxe’s desert-bound thriller Sirat would definitely be one of 2026’s front-runners. The Spanish/Catalan/French production joins ...

“Sirat” is an Arabic word meaning a bridge spanning the chasm between heaven and hell, one that is thin as a thread and sharp as a sword’s edge, as we are told at the start of the movie SIRAT, an ...

Sirât is finally upon us. Like its small convoy of nomadic ravers traversing the north African desert, the year’s most startling slice of cinema is rolling into cinemas with a cargo of traumatic ...

Kathleen Kennedy and "Mad Max: Fury Road" supervising sound editor Mark Mangini both won honorary awards. The MPSE also presented two honorary Golden Reel Awards, one to former Lucasfilm chief ...

There are films that entertain, films that distract and films that politely flatter one’s intelligence. And then there are films that seem to look one in the eye and ask whether they’re prepared to ...

This “sun-torn survival thriller” from French-Spanish director Oliver Laxe doesn’t “merely rack its audience’s nerves”, said Robbie Collin in The Daily Telegraph, it stretches “them out to ...

Oliver Laxe’s fourth feature, Sirat, arrives more like an event than an award-winning arthouse release. Since premiering at Cannes, where it shared the jury prize and won the soundtrack award, the ...

We’re told at the start of Oliver Laxe’s mesmerising creative enigma that Sirat Bridge is the crossing between hell and paradise. It signals that we’re entering a world of resonant story, which ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Director Oliver Laxe says he wants audiences to have an immersive experience when watching his film Sirat. The French-born, ...

Director Oliver Laxe says he wants audiences to have an immersive experience when watching his film Sirat. The French-born, Galician filmmaker believes cinema should be a powerful visual and auditory ...