The idea of the bare room, the helpless prisoner and the group of aggressive men is profoundly Pinteresque. Unfortunately it has neither Pinter's wit nor his brevity.
After Colin's wife leaves him, his gangster friends kidnap her lover - but will Colin actually kill him?
45365 proves visually delightful and while it may romantically honour the everyday and find beauty in the individual, but it saves a dispiriting, melancholic tone for the whole
Documentary charting life in a small American town.
Flawed though it is, 500 Days Of Summer is still a fair cut above the average piece of Hollywood fare both in terms of its laugh quotient and offbeat romance.
A greetings card writer recalls the highs and lows of romance.
Like several genre-splicing and convention-lampooning comedies of late, the film tries to have its cake and eat it, but this can leave both sides of the recipe feeling half-baked.
An original story of friendship, love and survival - and finding humour in the most unlikely places.
Though only an hour and a half long, the film is extraordinarily comprehensive, exploring its subject decade by decade and contextualising each major development with personal stories about the changes that resulted from it.
Leading activists and commentators explore the changes that have taken place since homosexuality was decriminalised in the UK in 1967 and the influence of gay culture on society.
Daley, in almost every scene, acquits himself well, and Steve Coulter shines as long-suffering best friend Bill.
Alienated filmmaker hopeful Pat Johnson's epic story of growing up in rural Illinois, falling in love and becoming the first fan of the movie that changed everything.
Bukowska makes sure we become as fixated on Anna as she is on Witek, as cinematographer Tomasz Naumiuk's camera creeps ever closer to her, his stifling approach matched by dislocating sound design and Natalia Fiedorczuk-Cieslak's score.
A woman slides into anxiety as her husband reports from a series of wars.
The voyeuristic experience of watching their unpleasant exhibitionism becomes a very alienating experience and as a result it is increasingly difficult to engage with, or indeed care about, any of the characters.
A teenager struggles for connections - both real and virtual - as her step-father presents an airbrushed version of their lives online.
This is a deeply personal account of life in Palestine, and also one which sends out a strong political message.
A Palestinian journalist chronicles his village’s resistance to a separation barrier being erected on their land and in the process captures his young son’s lens on the world.
An aspiring video journalist in her 20s finds herself already facing self-reckoning. Born in Damascus, Syria, Lina starts to report on the events around her until she is compelled to become a war reporter and, later, the unexpected narrator of her own destiny.
Quested traces the Stop the Steal project back to Maricopa County, Arizona, endeavouring to map out the key individuals involved, which is not easy in light of how fast the whole thing ballooned.
A documentary about the Trump campaign's efforts to overturn the result of the 2020 US election.
There is hardly a true note struck and since we are given no reason to like, let alone care for them, there is simply no tension surrounding their imperiled survival.
A high-school kid finds herself embroiled in a deadly game after her friends are buried alive.
Hannah Fidell's script shows the same sharp insight she brought to A Teacher, continually telling us more about the characters than they know about themselves.
A young couple's relationship faces sudden, unanticipated turbulence.
Burke is interested in people not politics, keeping the focus on the sudden outbreaks of inhumanity and humanity in the madness, expertly crafting his thriller from the swirling fog of war.
A young British soldier is accidentally left behind by his unit on the deadly streets of Belfast in 1971.
Gašić adroitly weaves together the perspectives of the three sisters, each one at a different point on the road to maturity, painting a complex picture of growing up in wartime.
After their father is conscripted during the 1999 NATO bombing of Serbia, three sisters begin a Hi8 video diary in their home.
This Paraguayan thriller, featuring almost as many twists and turns as the market in which it is set, is a fast-moving, audience-pleaser with decent helpings of tension and black humour.
A teenager finds himself with the custody of seven boxes... but everyone wants the contents.
When Lena learns Daniel has the keys to every place he’s ever lived, she wants to use them. But what starts as a romantic tour soon takes a sinister turn.
Placido's direction and the cinematography of Arnaldo Catinari have a smooth elegance that retains tension without making the film feel confined by its original stage play setting.
Female workers at a textile plant must to decide whether to accept a cut to their break time as part of a factory takeover.
Lally must be given credit for his singular vision – his story unfurls in the throes of dark melodrama and with every revelation, proceedings become increasingly grim, constantly upping the ante.
An eventful day throws the lives of four employees of a successful Dublin-based computer programming company into chaos.
