A fourth doctor, unsuccessful in his efforts to get to Gaza, helps in whatever ways he can. This enables the film to move between intense scenes within Gaza itself, and the US, where it’s easier to breathe.
When three American doctors — Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian — enter Gaza to save lives, they find themselves caught between medicine and politics, risking everything to expose the truth.
It doesn’t quite hit the mark, but that’s not to say that it isn’t a pleasant way to while away an hour and a half.
An entitled Economics professor pursues a tactic to buy an ailing widow’s mansion for nothing – but he quickly realises his seemingly foolproof strategy won’t be as easy as he thought.
This consideration of multiple lives, rather than one constructed arc serves to underline the sense that each person is only a small cog turning in the bigger wheel of the machine.
In post-industrial Ohio, a Chinese billionaire opens a new factory in the husk of an abandoned General Motors plant, hiring 2,000 blue-collar Americans. Early days of hope and optimism give way to setbacks as high-tech China clashes with working-class America.
A film which is as playful with its own structure as with its subject.
English professor and author Thelonious 'Monk' Ellison writes a satirical novel under a pseudonym, with the intention of exposing the hypocrisies of the publishing industry.
While some of the noir/expressionist compositions are undeniably effective as images, there is the sense of a certain lack of integration into the whole.
Batiste and Jaouad are intensely grounded – they have to be – and as such, their humour and their joy have greater weight.
In 2022, musician Jon Batiste finds himself the most celebrated artist of the year and embarks on composing an original symphony. The year grows more complicated when his life partner, best-selling author Suleika Jaouad, learns that her long-dormant cancer has returned.
With the essential background introduced, the focus shifts to small-town folklore. Such an emphasis serves the film well as it renders the creature all the more concrete.
Thousands of people go missing in the US each year. This film allows witnesses and a few brave investigators to present their theory that perhaps real werewolves are behind some of these disturbing disappearances.
Though it's clear early on that this journey will lead to something brutal, directors James Kaelan and Blessing Yen exercise restraint, letting changes take place slowly.
After the 2016 election, a politically ambivalent marketing manager gets drawn into the orbit of a racist militia in San Bernardino.
The physicality extends past harm to outright comedy.
A refugee returning to Armenia after growing up in the US is arrested and sentenced to prison for wearing a tie. When an earthquake ruptures the prison wall, he begins to spy on the couple in the adjacent apartment, gradually forging a connection with a culture he knew nothing about.
Pareja and Botet often perform comedy together and have a seasoned chemistry which makes it easy to buy into the depth and intensity of their characters’ relationship.
After injuring him in a car crash, a man tries to care for his best friend in his remote house but the tension between them grows.
The good work in Ammonite is so good that one longs for it to pick up the pace, to function more successfully overall.
In 1840s England, acclaimed but overlooked fossil hunter Mary Anning and a young woman sent to convalesce by the sea develop an intense relationship, altering both of their lives forever.
Shawn Convey's film is composed with a grace and deliberation rarely seen in documentary.
A motorcycle club led by Bosnian War veterans finds redemption helping their struggling small town heal and defending the threatened herd of wild horses they first met on the front line.
David O Russell's latest - a shaggy dog mystery with a deliberate air of penny dreadfuls - could do with more straightforward narrative and fewer screwball convolutions.
A trio of unlikely friends get mixed up in a murder plot with much wider implications.
For many fans, this will be the last ever chance to see a Romero film for the first time. It won't disappoint.
An elderly gentleman goes for what he assumes will be an ordinary day at the amusement park, only to find himself in the middle of a hellish nightmare instead.
Stephanie Allynne and Tig Notaro are impressively attuned to the humanity of their characters.
Lucy and Jane have been best friends for most of their lives and think they know everything there is to know about each other. But when Jane announces she's moving to London, Lucy reveals a long-held secret. As Jane tries to help Lucy, their friendship is thrown into chaos.
The observational approach works against the director, slowing down proceedings and making it hard to see the wood for the trees
After a 20-year long fruitless search in the Cameroonian forest, Frenchman Michel Ballot is on the verge of giving up his lifelong quest to find the mysterious creature known as the Mokélé-Mbembé. Turning to local initiates for help, and torn between ancestral wisdom and scientific evidence, he embarks on a final journey into powers, knowledge and the unseen.
The film’s fast flowing current carries a number of character messages we can fish out, as if they were polished by the stream, all shiny and specific.
A woman in her early thirties goes full steam ahead in pursuit of experiences which come and go at a fast pace.
Kayis' film is quiet and measured, from the taciturn Fikret, played with a world weary gravitas by Polat, to the pace, which also occasionally threatens to die on the spot.
A zoo director comes up with an idea to stop the establishment becoming a theme park.
Ola Jankowska’s puzzling and thought-provoking, but nonetheless, engagingly sombre feature debut, will have us grasping for a sense of meaning and yearning for some kind of an emotional release.
Mika’s return to her home country, in order to tend her sick father, will set her on a trip down memory lane in search of warmth and connection.
The stage begins to feel like the only space where anyone is honest, even when miming to somebody else's voice.
The appearance of a double who starts living her life and fulfilling all of her obligations allows a frustrated woman to adopt total anonymity for the very first time and escape the tight regulations that have constrained her life.
Although it could easily have been played as a farce, it’s friendship and human feeling that is the key to this film.
Rural policewoman Andrea wants to end her marriage and become a detective inspector in the city. After a birthday party, her drunken soon-to-be ex-husband runs out in front of her car. In a state of shock, Andrea commits a hit-and-run.
As Kethiwe weaves together her mother’s story, she also considers her family’s part within it and the film is considerably richer for the documentarian’s decision to give her own doubts and thoughts some space.
Lauretta Ncobo's daughter considers her author mother's exile from South Africa and subsequent life and work.
Robredo and Ressa are compelling, charismatic figures.
Amid the traditional pomp and circumstance of Filipino elections, a quirky people’s movement rises to defend the nation against deepening threats to truth and democracy. In a collective act of joy as a form of resistance, hope flickers against the backdrop of increasing autocracy.
There is no doubt this is kitschy... still, at least the book is treated seriously, some of Collinson's framing is memorable and the central 'who's-doing-it' conundrum holds firm
Guests are invited to a remote hotel... and murdered one by one.
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