Every time we are away from the older generation, they're sorely missed and the action drags without their presence.
Three elderly hermits live deep in the woods, cut off from the rest of the world. While wildfires threaten the region, their quiet life is about to be shaken by the arrival of two women.
Day-Lewis Jr pays attention to his actors and frames them in ways that make monologues count but there’s a lot of unnecessary brooding about in between times.
Estranged brothers reunite in a remote cabin and are forced to confront their painful past.
It should come as no surprise, given the kitsch and extravagant props and costumes, that the film has been co-produced by Pedro Almodovar and his brother Augustin.
The story of a real life teenage serial killer in Argentina.
There's a constant sense that war might return, a sense of urgency about cramming as much knowledge and wisdom as possible into the children before it's too late.
Documentary tracking schoolchildren growing up in Kabul over a period of years.
Not just an intimate excavation of Cambodian history, but a film about the scarred puzzles of family histories, becoming an exploration of how memories are often not passed down from one generation to the next like heirlooms, but locked away, never to be
A documentarian follows her father as he goes on a journey to confront former Khmer Rouge executioners.
In the end it’s the boldness of its choices which really makes the difference.
Vicaria is a brilliant teenager who believes death is a disease that can be cured. After the brutal and sudden murder of her brother, she embarks on a dangerous journey to bring him back to life.
What sets it apart is writer/director Huang Feng's eye for composition. His landscapes are amongst the best in Hong Kong cinema.
A respected martial arts elder is poisoned by a treacherous kung fu master, who plans to rule over the martial arts world. His daughter makes a perilous journey to obtain the only known cure, but things don't go according to plan.
If the film takes a broad brush approach to its issues of individual rights versus the collective - and dips into melodrama in terms of the violence portrayed - Attenborough is a master of subtle emotional shift.
A factory worker is ostracised after refusing to join a wildcat strike.
More than half the runtime is spent with groups of men sitting around having boring conversations which provide little exposition and tell us nothing about their characters.
A surreal coming of age tale set in the barren gangland town of Mauchton, Scotland.
Emma Benestan’s poetic take on gender, power and corporeality is a deeply animal experience.
Surrounded by men, 22-year-old Nejma trains hard to fulfill her dream of winning the upcoming annual bull race, but news of a rogue and violent bull on the loose terrifies the community. Young men are being murdered everywhere, and the beast is nowhere to be seen.
Pregnancy is often depicted as a state of enhanced vulnerability, and one which points the way to increased dependency. Here, Alaoui turns that around.
A young, pregnant woman finds emancipation as aliens land in Morocco.
A strange creature, Animalia, roams an abandoned building. Dressed in rags and gas mask she moves like an alien dancer, crawling and stretching across concrete, plastic waste. She collects and fills empty bottles for a modest bath.
Michod has created a deeply pessimistic but fascinating world lit by excellent cinematography and set to a moody score.
After the death of his mother, a 17-year-old boy is thrust precariously between an explosive criminal family and a detective who thinks he can save him. Plus read our exclusive interview with Ben Mendelsohn.
The aerial shots of the forest and the believable transformations with feathers, wings, beaks and claws as well as fish scales, make for riveting viewing.
Sci-fi adventure set in a world where humans are mutating into "creatures".
Willet is impressive all round and one hopes that this release will raise her profile.
A newlywed couple moves into a house in the middle of woods only to discover that the surrounding forest is host to sinister supernatural powers which turn them against each other.
Aleksey Fedorchenko isn't the first to try to come at the horrors of the Holocaust from a fresh perspective - although the narrow outlook he adopts here also ends up limiting how much he is able to say.
A little girl survives a Nazi mass execution and hides in the disused chimney and struggles to survive.
Any film that has both a fight director and a dance choreographer is probably doing something right.
When the zombie apocalypse hits the sleepy town of Little Haven - at Christmas - teenager Anna and her high school friends have to fight, sing and dance to survive, with the undead horde all around them.
Recalling the bone-dry wit of the likes of Pablo Larrain mixed with a dash of the absurdity of Samuel Beckett, this is as much a waiting game as an action plan.
Soldiers involved in a 1963 coup underestimate the invisible power of civilian life.
In the future data is transparent and a hacker can become invisible by eliminating personal detail. Even murder is an illusion. Possibly. A traditional detective, whose IT skills are last century, investigates
If Emmerich doesn't quite hit all his targets dead-on, he should at least be commended for trying to take his career and chosen genre down a less obvious route while remaining crowd-pleasing.
A star-studded British cast graces Roland Emmerich's exploration of the contested authorship of Shakespeare's works.
It’s an unusual piece of cinema which slips between genres with impressive agility.
Joey is a grief-stricken author haunted by the death of her husband Ben, a brilliant physicist. When he inexplicably appears one morning, alive and well, making breakfast in their kitchen, Joey is thrust into a waking nightmare where grief, memory, and her reality begin to unravel.
Most of the film has been assembled out of Zoom chats, but it’s so well done, and the story is so compelling, that it might take you a while to notice.
A documentary following a college student’s search for justice after she discovers deepfake pornography of herself circulating online.
Shot with a loose but observant style that captures energy and thoughtfulness in all the right places.
Martin and three of his friends, all weary high school teachers, embark on an experiment to maintain a constant level of intoxication throughout the workday.
Sometimes cinema tickles the senses, sometimes it tugs at the heartstrings, sometimes it exercises the intellect – but La Antena transmits to all three at once.
Dystopian fairytale about a 'city without a voice'.
Having delivered shock and awe in the first half on the film, Baichwal turns in the second half to projects that are small but growing fast, new approaches to old ways of doing things.
The filmmakers have traversed the globe to document the evidence and experience of human planetary domination.
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