Director/co-writer Emerson Moore has crafted a superior example of its type thanks to decent character work, puzzles which actually present a challenge, and a capable lead.
Six strangers wake up trapped in a seemingly endless cornfield and discover that something mysterious is hunting them.
For a low budget film shot in the woods, Esme, My Love, looks very impressive.
A mother, worried that her daughter has developed symptoms of a fatal genetic disease, takes her to the family farm, deep in the woods, so they can spend some time together - but does she have another motive?
This is almost an hour longer than anything else Zhao has directed, and while her eye is keen there must surely have been a point where someone looked at a script and thought 'this is too much'.
There's a volatility and a sweetness at play in what is, at heart, a character study and writer/director Craig Roberts strikes an impressive balance of mood.
A schizophrenic woman finds things change when she embarks on a romance with a failed musician.
Augusto and Paulina have been together for 25 years. Eight years ago, he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. Both fear the day he no longer recognises her.
If it sounds like an uncanny valley from the start, Block and Riesewieck illustrate just how bizarre and, sometimes, downright creepy this can be using genuine exchanges that have occurred.
Startups are using AI to create avatars that allow relatives to talk with their loved ones after they have died. An exploration of a profound human desire and the consequences of turning the dream of immortality into a product.
Characters come and go between these different worlds, emerging and re-emerging in different forms, as we explore different aspects of colonialism, responses to it, and survival strategies at personal and cultural levels.
Three stories set in wildly different terrain reflect lives haunted by the spectre of colonialist violence.
Europa is unrelenting, claustrophobic in the camera's closeness to Kamal.
Kamal, an Iraqi man trying to enter Europe on foot through the border between Turkey and Bulgaria, is relentlessly pursued through a forest by a group of hunters.
There's a very clear fondness here for the subject matter.
When aspiring musicians Lars and Sigrit are given the opportunity to represent their country at the world's biggest song competition, they finally have a chance to prove that any dream worth having is a dream worth fighting for.
It is not the innovative experience that some have made it out to be.
The fourth and final instalment of the Rebuild of Evangelion. Misato and her anti-Nerv group Wille arrive in Paris, a city now red from core-isation. Crew from the flagship Wunder land on a containment tower.
There's an odd dynamic to this animation in that the visually stunning imagery seems to have come from an entirely more rich imagination than the rather perfunctory and, at times, borderline annoying storytelling which accompanies it.
A mouse and a fox meet in animal heaven and forge an unexpected friendship.
While there are undeniably parts built for the big screen spectacle, which are juxtaposed with an emotional weight, the film's rudimentary form is the enemy within.
Follows two mountaineers as they attempt to climb and ski the direct North Face of Mount Everest.
Creative licence has been taken with Jamie's story, of course, but the essence of it - and particularly the emotional beats - have a strong ring of truth.
A teenager overcomes prejudice to fulfil his ambition of becoming a drag queen.
While Farhadi certainly knows how to spin a web of intrigue, deceit and suspicion, the narrative has a tendency to leap from strand to strand, often leaving the audience stumbling in its wake.
Secrets resurface after a woman returns to her family's village for a wedding.
Even for those who were present on the day, there are likely to be revelations.
In May 2021, a UK Home Office dawn raid triggers one of the most spontaneous and successful acts of civil resistance in recent memory. In Scotland’s most diverse neighbourhood, hundreds of residents rush to the streets to stop the deportation of their neighbours.
In a small village in Leon, Spain, María José prepares to end her life after failing to get over the suicide of her bullied son years before. Everything changes when she receives a visit from Lucía, a strange little girl who could be connected to a local legend about stopping an impending apocalypse.
Everything Is Illuminated is about storytelling: not only Alex's narration (in hilariously mangled English) of Jonathan's search for his past, but also Alex's retelling of his own life and family history.
A man heads on an odyssey to
the Ukraine, to trace his father's
roots.
Jeff Kaufman's documentary explores the intersection of the personal, the political and the artistic with a focus on understanding what the playwright always advanced as the most important of human endeavours: communication.
A portrait of four-time Tony-winning playwright Terrence McNally’s ground-breaking, six-decade career in the theatre, fight for LGBTQ rights, and triumph over addiction.
The slowburn nature of this won't be for everyone but there's a warm ebb and flow to Tengan's snapshot of a life in flux.
A young man is determined to give his life meaning outside of Kaimukī, the small Hawaiian town where he grew up, even if it means leaving everything he's ever known and loved behind.
Most of Reece’s works are first and foremost character studies, so it’s not surprising that his adherence to plot doesn’t last; the film is better for it.
An unassuming office worker at an online periodical becomes entangled in a conspiracy after witnessing a murder.
Given a magical quality by director Carolina Hellsgård's distinctive shooting style and Leah Striker's luminous cinematography, this is a world that seems full of new possibilities.
Two years after a zombie apocalypse, two women set off on a long journey in search of a safe haven.
Evil Dead Rise doesn’t add much that’s new to the franchise, but it does deliver on entertainment.
The reunion of two estranged sisters is cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing demons, thrusting them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable.
What might have been an edgy little thriller is transformed by Borgen director Jesper W Nielsen into the kind of bitchy workplace drama that will make many viewers grateful for the Covid lockdown.
Death threats see suspicion grow between four women in an NGO.
It's wrong, but it's fun, and at times touches on some heavier issues such as alienation and the suburban experience.
A disturbed and delusional high school student with aspirations of a career in medicine goes to extremes to earn the approval of her controlling mother.
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