Plays out with the same mixture of import and absurdity which marked the scandal as a whole.
In 1974, a White House transcriber is thrust into the Watergate scandal when she obtains the only copy of the infamous 18½ minute gap in Nixon's tapes.
Young makes a spirited lead, effortlessly conveying the emotional tumult of his character whilst giving him a sufficiently strong core that viewers of all ages will be able to relate to him.
When 13-year-old Tommy loses his father to a drug raid, he embarks on an urban odyssey guided by a phone sex operator and with the help of his two best friends.
Roda is interested in the little things that make up the stuff of life at that age.
It's 1984 and outside a small-town nightclub, a group of young teenagers gather, grappling with a spate of recent suicides, UFO sightings, their absentee parents, and each other.
As stark as its empty landscapes, as measured as the tread of the strangers along the poplar avenue, as compelling as the panic that grows in the village ahead of them.
A Hungarian village becomes a mirror for the failure of an entire society.
This isn’t a plea for people to swap one source of authority for another. The focus is on encouraging us to think for ourselves.
The mystery of how theology, history, culture, and politics led to a Biblical mistranslation, the man who tried to stop it, and the impassioned academic crusade of the LGBTQIA+ Christian community driven to discover the truth.
What is not said is every bit as important as what is, and we are invited to observe the numerous ways in which the characters communicate without words.
A closeted gay man spends Christmas with his strict Christian family.
A beautifully played, character-driven story, 1 Girl Infinite explores feelings that have grown up in the absence of analysis, without any social framework through which to make sense of them.
In Changsha, Yin Jia and Tong Tong have carved out a life together, but when Tong Tong begins a relationship with a drug dealer, the devoted Yin Jia is prepared to sacrifice all that she has.
Pollard and Forsyth, who have previously worked with Cave on Bad Seeds videos, turn inner states into inhabitable rooms. What is real and what is unreal is not for the audience to guess.
Otero, who is in almost every scene, carries the film with her fresh and naturalistic performance, which is perfectly complemented by Solaguren’s impressionistic style.
An eight-year-old explores her identity over a summer in the Basque country.
The smoke, the blasts, the spinning of ejecting shell casings, yells that become cries, the front-line as it becomes frantic.
Amid the failing counteroffensive, a journalist follows a Ukrainian platoon on their mission to traverse one mile of heavily fortified forest and liberate a strategic village from Russian occupation. But the farther they advance through their destroyed homeland, the more they realise that this war may never end.
As a story it falls apart because there is no one to root for.
A cannibal clan goes on the move in search of fresh meat, which is bad news for two beautiful heiresses making a reality TV show. Plus read our exclusive interview with Bill Moseley.
Although the shift in the film's gears isn't exactly smooth, it's an ambitious idea for a first-time filmmaker and Nayfeh brings home the sharp reality of the smuggling business.
A man from the West Bank finds himself taking the smuggling route to Israel to be with his family.
There are stretches of this film that are interesting, engaging, well done. Over all, however, it feels like an ambitious project that has fallen short.
When a scientist receives an “Origin Unknown” signal from Mars, she must investigate from mission control 150 million miles away on Earth.
This is a grand vision, grandly executed, and like the solutions it depicts it exists today.
The intrepid creator of the documentary That Sugar Film sets off on another journey, this time to scour the world for solutions and measures to combat climate change.
Dazzles us with so many balls in the air, so many twists and turns, that there is not enough room left for his characters to develop as believable, interesting people, as opposed to comicbook archetypes.
Epic manga trilogy sees a boy and his friends fight to save mankind.
Oscar shortlisted for Best International Feature and Best Documentary, this is an intense film with little respite even when no bullets are being fired.
As the Russian invasion begins, a team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting the war’s atrocities.
Kevin Spacey is really the highlight of the film. Every scene he's in springs to life, his laid back performance blowing the younger cast out of the water.
A group of card counting college kids try to take the dealers of Vegas for a ride.
This initially seems like a set-up for a film exploring mental reconciliation after estrangement but the Larrieus have other ideas - perhaps too many of them.
After her mother has died, Caroline befriends a woman who was looking after her mother, but events take a mysterious turn.
This blending of the truth and invention is a key plank of Chinese director Jia Zhang-Ke's work, which skates so close to documentary it is hard to spot the join.
Blend of fiction and documentary looks at a Chinese munitions plant scheduled for conversion into luxury apartments.
Director Patxi Amézcua sets the pace carefully – it’s fast enough to keep your heart-rate up but not in that forced, dizzying, blink-and-you’ll miss it style with which Hollywood is so enamoured.
A thug and a thief fall for each other and try to escape a life of crime in this Barcelona-set thriller.
At its heart, this Netflix comedy drama hinges on what we put a price on in life.
The story of Martha Hoffman, an eccentric and wealthy patron who is committed to a psychiatric clinic by her daughters. The expert witness Casares investigates whether this is a scheme to control their mother’s fortune or if Martha truly suffers from a form of dementia that endangers her well-being and that of her family.
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