While Pattinson is to be commended for taking on such an un-commercial vehicle - to which he definitely does no disservice - it all seems a bit too calculated, more posturing than penetrating.
Chance encounters threaten to tear a billionaire's life apart as he travels across Manhattan.
We are in Calvino territory, seeking out the invisible all around us.
Fifteen distinct but interconnected chapters, shot in locations from Russia to New York City to Istanbul. Together, these build to a reckoning at the intersection of city symphony, diary, and essay film.
Aside from a slight flabbiness in some areas, Kechiche is to be praised for exploring the nature of change on a personal and a community level - and packing the result with some emotional wallop.
The head of a Tunisian immigrant clan tries to realise his dream of opening a couscous restaurant.
This isn't filmed for the MTV generation, but for their ADHD-afflicted offspring.
Dead assassin Chev Chelios is resurrected by an enemy who then steals his heart - to keep his artificial one going, he has to seek out electric shocks.
The simplicity of the location, with its gentle green hills and thin woodland, makes it feel as if it could be anywhere, yet Romero positions his camera so as to generate maximum tension from it.
The military attempts to contain a manmade combat virus that causes death and permanent insanity in those infected, as it overtakes a small Pennsylvania town.
The success of this film is in its attention to the sort of small human details that create the boundaries of our day to day worlds, the things we hang onto and use to define normality.
A mysterious toxin in the water supply drives most of the people of a small town crazy, so that they turn upon their friends and neighbours in this remake of the George Romero classic.
Saura's film acquires much of its lasting power from the combination of Torrent's dark-eyed, solemn gaze and its representation of how an impressionable child can have their imagination activated by events they don't fully understand.
An eight-year old girl believes that she has poisoned the authoritarian father whom she blames for the death of her mother.
Delivers the goods with conviction and not a hint of apology.
During a traumatic accident on a deep-sea dive, Olive, a gifted, young marine biologist discovers an unearthly creature and smuggles it home so she can study it. Then the nightmars begin.
Coogler draws on the traditional elements of Rocky's success - strength of character in adversity, old-fashioned romance and, of course, a climactic fight - and tricks them out for the mobile phone generation to give them a new lease of life.
Apollo Creed's illegitimate son begs his dad's former friend and rival Rocky to train him in the ring.
