Despite the somewhat formulaic plot - the twist and turns are what you would expect and where you would expect them - the pacing of the narrative makes Dark Winds very watchable.
Two Navajo police officers in the Southwest US in the Seventies are forced to challenge their own spiritual beliefs when they search for clues in a double murder case.
Lauryn Canny is stunning in the central role, easily adopting the same body language that Mcintosh has used continually to break away from conditioned patterns of movement and take up space.
A sequel to The Woman in which a feral teenage girl is taken into strict Catholic care and prepared for her First Holy Communion.
A news editor, working from home, unexpectedly receives secret footage which gives him a new perspective on an incident in which an attorney general was killed.
Bea is a 50-year-old woman going through a divorce, and Denís is a 28-year-old trans man struggling with job insecurity. An unexpected incident brings them together, and this encounter will change their lives forever.
For the most part the film comes across as a celebration of this moment as a light in the darkness, but it will likely leave some viewers additionally uncomfortable.
Four young girls prepare for a special Daddy Daughter Dance with their incarcerated fathers, as part of a unique fatherhood program in a Washington, DC, jail.
Dash gracefully binds together her connections and contradictions - the point where the past meets the present, where the decision to stay or go is made, where both belief systems can combine.
Portrait of Gullah family on the brink of migration.
Beautifully lit, Daughter Of Mine conjures up a tremendous sense of place, all salt breezes, scrubland and golden sand.
Vittoria is growing up in a remote Sardinian village. One day she meets the wildly independent Angelica who is so very different to her own caring mother Tina. The young girl has no knowledge of the secret that connects these two women.
One afternoon, Dave builds a cardboard maze in his living room, gets lost in it, and discovers that it's full of traps and monsters which he doesn't remember creating.
Two high level scuba-divers and long-time friends, Don and Dave, broke a world record for depth in the Boesmansgat cave in South Africa - and found a dead body.
Though it doesn't have many new things to say - that's part of the point - it works thanks to a powerful central performance from young Muatasem Mishal.
A Muslim kid who doesn't fit in becomes friends with a Jewish boy but doesn't know how to resolve the initial misunderstanding about his background.
That face that is familiar to all of us - in most cases from childhood - occasionally stiffens just slightly with the weight of sorrow, those clear eyes touched by tears..
One man has seen more of the natural world than any other. This unique feature documentary is his witness statement.
Lee is inventive in his shooting - particularly in his use of an aerial camera above the stage and another that lurks at the back at barefoot level, both capturing elements of the performance that an audience on the night would not be able to see.
Alongside the gentle humour there is a quirky subversiveness to this film that belies its outward ordinary appearance.
As her 40th birthday draws near, Daisy feels societal pressure to settle down and start a family. In a spiral for meaning, she teams up with local photographer Jack Palmer to give West High School students the art programme that they deserve.
Pennanen’s approach is eclectic, which matches her subject.
When Finnish director Karin Pennanen’s uncle Markku died after decades of isolation, she entered his house for the first time in 34 years and uncovered a world no one had seen: an immense archive of paintings, compositions, writings, audio diaries, videotapes, and even notes on how a film should be constructed.
The newest element of all this is the potentially interesting take on its totalitarian overtone, including everyone standing at a certain point for the national anthem, but the film takes the soft path every time.
An activist who plans to protest automaton slavery with his own suicide finds a 'freed' automaton and tries to help save her.
It's rare for such a talky movie to be so exciting, but the wired performances combine with the visceral effects and confident direction to create an utterly absorbing experience.
Trouble flares in a small military base where some of the last survivors of a zombie apocalypse are holding out as scientists search for a solution.
There's a lot of interesting stuff here and the potential for a powerful film. This is Lee in quirky mode, however, empowered by Netflix to do pretty much whatever he wants and quickly losing his focus.
Four African-American vets battle the forces of man and nature when they return to Vietnam seeking the remains of their fallen squad leader and the gold fortune he helped them hide.
The themes of friendship and teamwork are targeted at young audiences but it zips along at pace - a reminder that you don't need super-complex plotting, so long as you deliver on laughs.
When Krypto the dog loses his super-powers and his owner Superman is captured, he must team up with a team of shelter pets who have accidentally acquired special abilities.
Impressively, the movie digs into enough warmth and humanity that it pulls the audience through moments of severe cringe with laughs and empathy.
In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can’t teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom.
Marbles, a hapless stoner, can see ghosts. Tagg, a recently dead wannabe super-cop, needs to find a serial killer. Can a critical ghost cop and a directionless stoner get over their prejudices and work together to save lives - and deaths?
The difficulty with all this is that too many threads are left hanging, becoming distractions rather than contributing to the atmosphere.
US border guards bury the body of a would-be immigrant deep in the desert in an unmarked grave. Days later one of them is called back to find the same migrant at the river's edge.
For all its flaws though, old-school horror fans should get a kick out of Craven's employment of classic slasher tropes in an unusual setting, not to mention a genuinely spooky James Horner score.
A woman finds herself a victim of superstition after her husband dies in an accident.
For fans of the various franchises given nods and winks, and elbow nudges, and telegraphed air quotes by the Meta Merc, there’s a lot to like here.
After being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, Wade Wilson adopts the alter ego Deadpool and goes looking for revenge.
Comedy and horror are well balanced in a film which demonstrates a sharp understanding of social media but is also ready to deliver on the more explicitly gruesome side of the bargain
A washed up internet personality tries to win back his followers by livestreaming himself spending one night alone in an abandoned haunted house.
What’s impressive is that despite the awful ennui sapping the life from his characters, Verbeek manages to craft a film with consistent momentum and intrigue.
A group of young billionaires who are always trying to surprise each other wake up after a strange ritual with fangs in their mouths and a body nearby.
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