It’s not a particularly sophisticated parable, but it doesn’t need to be. The central performances are strong and the bond between father and daughter feels real even when other elements do not.
A single father is deceived into a treacherous career as the Grim Reaper, while his precocious daughter grows increasingly suspicious of his whereabouts.
Watching, you will believe that you can touch, smell, almost taste her wonderful creations.
In an isolated village in Denmark, dominated by puritanism, two spinsters nostalgically recall their distant youth and the rigid upbringing that forced them to pass up their chance at Earthly happiness.
It is the things taken for granted, as much as the things that stand out, which shape the tale.
After being released from a juvenile detention center, Wellington finds himself alone and adrift on the streets of São Paulo. During a visit to a porn theater, he encounters Ronaldo, a mature man, who teaches him new ways of surviving.
Babylon is disgusting, muddled in intent, absurd in its trajectory and at times baffling in its tonal choices. And yet I would not call a moment of its 189 minutes boring.
The rise and fall of stars against a background of 1920s Hollywood.
This is a delight. From me it drew outpourings of laughter as sharp and as bright as the splashes of blood from a punctured neck.
Chisato and Mahilo are two high school girls who are about to graduate. They also happen to both be highly skilled assassins. When the organisation they work for orders them to share a room, the relationship between turns sour.
Full of rough edges and unexpected moments, Baby, Don’t Cry! captures life in the raw.
A withdrawn and sensitive 17-year-old Chinese immigrant from a troubled home meets a 20-year-old delinquent, and together they embark on a twisted journey to try and escape their fate.
A crime thriller whose lead characters are influenced by crime thrillers, caught up in a fantasy which repeatedly smacks up hard against the real world.
A pair of fugitives take refuge in the house of a single mother as they wait on their pregnant getaway driver to hatch an escape plan in time for a major payday.
The characters are underwritten, so the acting would become a hard task even for stronger actors with some sense for improvisation.
When best friends Penelope and Eve find that they're both expecting children at the same time, it seems their lives couldn't be any more perfect. But when tragedy strikes and Eve begins to unravel, Penelope finds herself caught in a maze of secrets and must fight for her family's safety.
Its images are often chilling. Its spaces have a genuine charge. But the plot often feels less like cinema than like a sequence of cutscenes from a video game with the gameplay removed.
A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.
In addition to issues of physical discomfort, the film suffers from an unnecessarily convoluted and drawn out plot in which there's very little actually happening.
The lone surviving thief of a violent armoured car robbery is sprung from a high security facility and given an experimental drug.
If there's one thing that the ongoing pandemic has reinforced for many people, it's the importance of human connection... which makes Marteinn Thorsson's warm-spirited and humanistic drama a timely watch
Englert’s script is an actor’s dream. Connelly, who has matured magnificently in recent years and now ranks among the best in her generation, gives it all she’s got.
Lucy, a former child actor, seeks enlightenment at a retreat led by spiritual leader Elon while she navigates her close yet turbulent relationship with her stunt-performer daughter, Dylan.
It's classic film noir; except that, being the work of Pedro Almodóvar, much of it is shot in lurid colour, not all the girls are really girls, and not all the boys are what they claim to be, either.
Two young school friends meet after 16 years, with tragic consequences.
The whole thing has the energy and bravado of early Eighties slasher films, when the rules of the genre were still being written.
When a killer starts targeting her community, a young queer woman realises that they're wearing the same mask as the person who killed her mother decades before.
The Bad Guys are struggling to find trust and acceptance in their newly minted lives as Good Guys, when they are pulled out of retirement and forced to do 'one last job' by an all-female squad of criminals.
Bad Hair has a fresh and volatile statement of its own to make.
In this horror satire set in 1989, an ambitious young woman gets a weave in order to succeed in the image-obsessed world of music television. However, her flourishing career may come at a great cost when she realises that her new hair may have a mind of its own.
No film by Herzog has ever been so defiantly mainstream – and yet at the same time this remains one of the director's craziest, most outlandish affairs.
Re-imagining of Abel Ferrara's film, starring Nic Cage as a cop in post-Katrina New Orleans, whose moral compass slips after he is put in charge of a murder investigation.
An important effort to redress the balance and give these two maligned men a chance to put their case.
Anti-British, spineless, out-of-touch, terrorist-sympathisers, Communists, and a threat to national security. The media bestowed unsavoury accolades on Ken Loach and Jeremy Corbyn. They now step forward in order to challenge that narrative.
