The directors take what is primarily an observational approach, with only intermittent scenes clearly set up to encourage specific discussions. In return for this they get intimate access to their star's day to day life.
A documentary that follows Mc Linn Da Quebrada, a black trans woman, performer and activist living in impoverished São Paulo.
Like a reduced for quick sale ham and cheese sandwich from a garage.
A troubled secret agent abruptly retires from service and opens a luxurious nightclub in the Caribbean to escape the dark shadows of his past. An old flame arrives and reignites love in his life, but brings danger with her.
The unadorned observation of the physical aspects of the relationship in which middle-aged bodies are shown without artifice is one of the most hypnotic aspect of Naveriani’s vision.
The story of a 40something in a dead-end town who discovers love for the first time.
This emerges as a piece of bravura filmmaking that tackles huge themes with style and intelligence while providing a compelling narrative drive.
Ron Stallworth, an African-American police officer from Colorado, successfully managed to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan and became the head of the local chapter.
It should add up to a fast paced, racy show, but it's all a little lacklustre.
A young married couple see their livelihoods threatened when the government starts enforcing restrictive fishing quotas after they have built up a small fishing empire in a village.
Did it meet my expectations? They weren't high, but no, not really.
Nearly 5,000 years after he was bestowed with the almighty powers of the Egyptian gods - and imprisoned just as quickly - Black Adam is freed from his earthly tomb, ready to unleash his unique form of justice on the modern world.
At the core of the film is an exploration of the intersectional issues faced by Black LGBTQ+ people
A kaleidoscopic journey through the fault lines of race, gender, history and sexuality in America, focuses on the intersectional lives of black queer people fighting for equality within their own community.
A sophisticated palate will discern any number of flavours running through Black Bag, but these are glosses on a traditional recipe.
When an intelligence agent is suspected of betraying the nation, her husband - also a legendary agent - faces the ultimate test: should he be loyal to his marriage, or to his country?
Black Bear is a tremendously pretentious film but Plaza feels real and keeps it interesting, delivering one of 2020's most impressive performances.
At a remote lake house, a filmmaker plays a calculated game of desire and jealousy in the pursuit of a work of art that blurs the boundaries between autobiography and invention.
Although it uses relatively few locations they're attractively shot, in a style which, curiously, owes more to the work of Dutch artists of the period than to that of the French.
A picaresque chronicle of Laura, a peasant maid, and Sebastian, the young orphan in her charge, against a backdrop of overflowing passion and revolutionary intrigue in Europe at the twilight of the 18th Century.
Documentaries don’t get much more personal or intimate than this
Journalist Shiori Ito embarks on a courageous investigation of her own sexual assault in an improbable attempt to prosecute her high-profile offender. Her quest becomes a landmark case in Japan, exposing the country’s outdated judicial and societal systems.
Visually, Guan never puts a frame wrong, whether he’s setting up a physical comedy set-piece, idly incorporating a solar eclipse or letting the dogs steal a scene.
A man forges a bond with a dog after returning to his hometown following a spell in prison.
Underlying the human and not-quite-human drama here are sharp observations about the way capitalism feeds and in the process exaggerates human desires, about various ways in which workers are exploited, and about the challenges, for any individual, of trying to self-define outside of that system.
Desperate for work, Derek accepts a job at a shady tech start-up, working intimately with Susan, a bleeding-edge BDSM sex doll meant to receive and appreciate sexual punishment as an integral part of her evolving AI.
Realism is certainly the mode that Platt embraces here, crafting her film as though it were an intimate holiday video, and inviting viewers to be flies on the wall.
Drama about a pair of dysfunctional families on a summer break.
Early scenes which remind us how horrible shoppers can be to retail staff, especially on this sort of occasion, have a lot more bite than, well, the scenes involving actual biting.
A group of toy store employees must protect each other from a horde of parasite infected shoppers.
Powered by strong acting performances ... The Black Hole surfs through various genres smoothly.
As aliens descend to study humans, the people caught up in their investigations face turning points in their own lives. Two women take part-time jobs being dissected by the cosmic visitors; a woman fleeing an abusive relationship takes shelter in a muscle mummy’s giant-spider-ridden apartment; and a young man begins an affair with the domineering, alluring woman across the street while his mother seeks fulfillment in an expensive vacuum cleaner.
The directors with their fifth feature take a humane view of the plight of their subjects but spare us any over-sentimentality
After years of saving money from the small bribes they collect, 60-year-old Marina and her husband Gosha from Bulgaria are preparing for their dream trip to St Petersburg to witness the White Nights. But when Russia invades Ukraine and the travel agency vanishes with all their savings, the couple’s dream collapses.
It's almost a disservice to talk about Black Panther in the context of the MCU, because perhaps more than any other it stands alone.
T'Challa, the King of Wakanda, rises to the throne in the isolated, technologically advanced African nation, but his claim is challenged by a vengeful outsider who was a childhood victim of T'Challa's father's mistake.
The film has a German Expressionist look about it, more so than many of the later American film noirs: the way faces are shot, the bizarre object in the warehouse.
A gangster and a bank robber escape from Death Row minutes before their scheduled execution by electric chair.
In a watertight script, no option available to the characters is left unconsidered, and each has its deadly downside, leaving viewers to wonder what they themselves would have done.
Three young adventurers find themselves stranded in a mangrove swamp with a killer crocodile waiting in the water.
