Victory Hayzard Solum

Wingonia Ikpi’s tense debut mixes horrid Nollywood sentiment with fine visual craft.

Iyanu is a solid international debut for Nigerian animation, but the Cartoon Network show flattens the distinctiveness of Nigerian culture.

Ms. Kanyin is a relatively decent supernatural thriller. But Nollywood’s search for a great Lady Koi-Koi continues.

With vapid sex scenes and generic power plays, Akay Mason’s Red Circle proves more underwhelming than groundbreaking.

Taiwo Egunjobi’s The Fire and the Moth shows that a unique vision in Nollywood isn’t a death sentence.

Yemi “Filmboy” Morafa’s anticipated thriller scores high in many departments but falls short in the central one.

Saved by its supporting characters, Maurice Muendo’s Showmax Original wobbles towards a moralising end. Efiko Score: 5.5/10

Landline, the latest time-loop tale from Nollywood, is another exercise in the tradition’s storytelling problem.

Are films characterised as Nollywood’s Yoruba epics only to be critiqued by reviewers from or intimately familiar with Yoruba culture?

Jack’enneth Opukeme and Adebayo Tijani’s Farmer’s Bride tells a familiar love story with immense verve.