The Beasts (Dir: Rodrigo Sorogoyen. Spain, 2022): After telling a Spanish friend in passing about my dream of buying a summer house in the Iberian Peninsula, his only comment was “do you have twenty bucks?” It was his way of saying acquiring property isn’t a problem per se, but there are issues that come with buying cheap.

Watching The Beasts reinforced his point. A superb thriller winner of last year’s Goya for Best Picture, the issues the film trades on (bigotry, gentrification, social stagnation) are all so palpable, they make the story hit harder. Would you like to know more?