Director Philip Barantini was responsible for 2020’s kitchen-set drama Boiling Point, and here he demonstrates the same mastery of tension.
Alone at a remote country house, a young man watches helplessly as a social media frenzy wrongly identifies him as a wanted terrorist. When online threats lead to an IRL home invasion, he must fight for his life in this tense thriller of virtual witch-hunts and false accusations.
Aces is a paean to worker solidarity but it is also honest enough about Spain's economic reality to acknowledge that holding each other up is not always enough to endure the precarious times in which we live.
Abandoned by the father of her child, Neneta returns to her home town and takes a job on a construction site.
There’s a specificity about the relationship between Cantwell and the Countess that makes it convince.
A war hero, struggling with his memories as his body is ravaged by heart disease, makes one last trip to Venice to face his demons and discover an unexpected source of joy.
There’s a knowing humour to it which will resonate with disabled viewers … but other people should see the funny side too, and will, one hopes, not be too nervous to laugh along.
A documentary which aims to break open the conversation around sexual life in the disabled community.
Active Measures effectively arranges and links pieces of material but has a habit of ignoring complexities when they make its conclusions less straightforward, and doesn't show a great deal of insight.
A documentary arguing that Russia has interfered in international politics through the provision of dark money, manipulation of social media and direct influence over politicians.
Unquestionably and understandably harrowing, in places unbearably so, this reflection upon acts of murder, genocide and torture, told by the perpetrators themselves, is a masterpiece.
People responsible for the mass murder of suspeced Communists at the onset of the military regime in 1965 are challenged to restage their actions and question the pride they still take in them.
Act Of Valor essentially marries platitude with attitude, veering from the realms of wholesome all-American family life to bullets-raging battle scenes.
An elite team of Navy SEALs embark on a covert mission to recover a kidnapped CIA agent and stop a suicide bomb plot.
Ernst invites viewers to engage with a cis character whom many will find easier to relate to and, through this, shows them what the world really looks like the other way round.
Awkward teenager Adam arrives to spend his final high school summer with his older sister, who has thrown herself into New York City's lesbian and trans activist scene. Over the summer, Adam and those around him experience love, friendship, and attendant hard truths in this coming-of-age comedy.
The ordinary material of growing up mingles here with trans-specific experiences.
A transgender teen and his mother chronicle their lives, weaving a rare and intimate portrait of a family in transition. Two decades of footage trace a boy's path to manhood and his parents' vulnerability as they reckon with change.
Drucker, who earlier thrived as a character or supporting actress, once again demonstrates that she has the authority for lead parts.
Following a court ruling, four-year-old Adam is hospitalised for malnutrition. The head nurse faces a tricky battle to balance the competing interests of child, parent and hospital.
Pettier slips into the measured rhythms of the farm and shows the amount of hard work and effort that the family put in rather than getting bogged down in the balance sheet.
Documentary about a Teesdale family of tenant farmers.
The quality of the filming is not always superb but the scale and emptiness of the landscape is stunning all the same and the personal interviews remain compulsive viewing.
Documentary tracks two women in post-apartheid South Africa.
Director Richard Ledes and cinematographer Valentina Caniglia use the camera in this black and white movie to explore, at times in amusing ways, the power dynamics at play.
After two miscarriages and - in her own words - "losing" her husband - a Brazilian woman goes to Paris to see Jacques Lacan, reputedly "the most controversial psychoanalyst since Freud."
There's a lot of good work here, decent performances from Blunt, Damon and Mackie, some gorgeous locations and some neat production design, but it doesn't quite work.
When a man meets a beautiful woman for the second time, the plans the mysterious Adjustment Bureau have for his life go awry.
No expense has been spared when it comes to the naval battle itself, which takes up the whole second half of the film and contains enough twists and turns to grip throughout.
A dramatisation of the historical Battle of Myeongnyang and its star naval admiral Yi Sun-sin, who led a small fleet to improbable victory over a much larger Japanese fleet.
Cinema presents us with no end of films focused on romantic love. This is a different kind of love story, addressing what, for many people, is an equally deep human need.
An adult woman puts herself up for adoption and forms a bond with the misanthropic patriarch of her adoptive family. Based on a true story.
The effect is sometimes comical, but true intimacy often looks absurd from the outside.
A musical documentary about grief and the creative power of love, told through the astonishing story of Alan and Adrianne St-George and their hand-built castle in rural Illinois.
A character-driven approach to the crime caper, which doesn’t let viewers forget that it’s focused on amateurs, Adulthood occasionally flounders but is, overall, a fun watch.
Siblings Megan and Noah discover a dead body, long buried in their parents' basement, sending them down a rabbit hole of crime and murder.
Charm' is just one of the words, and others like 'winsome' are right there - it manages this without ever feeling forced, without ever feeling twee - and that makes it a triumph.
Anna is stuck: she’s approaching 30, living in her mother’s shed, and spending her time making movies with her thumbs. Her mom wants her to move out; she just wants to be left alone.
There’s an astute understanding of trauma underlying the comedy here, and it informs every aspect of the larger narrative.
When three fathers volunteer to chaperone their teenage daughters’ school trip, the initially idyllic getaway quickly reveals brutal social dynamics that have them in over their heads.
Even the footage itself appears to have been both stage-managed in the field and manipulated through editing to suggest a story that would never occur in nature.
There’s a sense of dread here rarely found in modern horror.
An ex-dancer who now needs a wheelchair is given an old wooden antique advent calendar before Christmas. She realises each window contains a surprise that triggers repercussions in real life: some of them good, but most of them bad - so she will have to choose between getting rid of the calendar or walking again - even if it causes death around her
The very nature of Tsemel's passion for her projects makes this a compelling watch
Biographical documentary about Lea Tsemel who defends Palestinians: from feminists to fundamentalists, from non-violent demonstrators to armed militants.
