It's a shame that it ends up running round the corridors instead of making something of the various opportunities it has to throw in twists or add depth to its storyline.
School may be out for the day... but violence is in, as a group of hooded hooligans terrorises a school after hours.
The atmosphere of the drab Czechoslovakia at the time has been captured with uncompromising realism.
Teenage Anna’s background may be altogether unsuitable for the communist regime, but her talent as a sprinter will help her into the state-run doping program regardless.
At a lean 75 minutes, the film does well to paint that age-old dilemma between the romances of impulse and the disappointments of real life.
Young Neli abandons a secure future in with a wealthy, straight-laced fiancé for one last fling with her passionate but boozily self destructive ex-boyfriend.
This may be cheesy stuff, but it's handled with a sincerity that will charm fans of the books and teenagers looking for a bit of light escapism.
A teenager sent to reform school for a crime she didn't commit finds herself torn between two prospective boyfriends with whom she feels a mysterious connection.
Astonishingly incoherent as it is, the film does achieve a certain degree of immersiveness, if only because there's really no other way to relate to it.
A father, Jase, deals with his daughter claiming to be seeing a person in her room nightly she calls Mouse Man. Until one day Mouse Man takes her to Hell.
Messily shot and assembled like the story it tells, this is a film which forces the viewer to ask questions about what is accident and what is artistry.
When Tom Fassaert’s 95-year-old grandmother invites him to visit her in South Africa, all he knows about her are his father’s stories about the 1950s femme fatale who put her two sons in a children’s home. An unexpected confession makes things more complicated than he could have ever imagined.
Omerzu's observational, unsentimental style and the cool, stripped back lensing from Lukas Milota means that increasingly outlandish unfortunate events unfold with an acidic humour rather than melodrama.
A family starts to disintegrate after the mother and father leave the children home alone.
A bold edit based on what must have been a frustrating shoot, this film becomes a story not about gold but about people pursuing their dreams under the shadow of grand empires and hybrid religions.
A family sets out to make its fortune through gold mining in Mali, despite having absolutely no experience.
It's A Trap! is unquestionably Family Guy's best-looking Star Wars special (and the first to be made in widescreen), but... there are just too many lazy jokes.
Last in the trilogy of the animation's Star Wars specials.
Despite the fantastic image this family first presents, the film's best trick is to reveal the ways in which it resembles any other.
A middle aged Ukrainian woman raises twenty seven children in a crumbling rural house, whilst racial prejudice threatens the security of many of the adoptees.
The pacing of co-directors Olivier Duscastel and Jacques Martineau is restrained and deliberate, possibly because the larger subject they are dealing with is a weighty one that they clearly feel passionate about.
Family skeletons are unearthed by a father's refusal to attend the funeral of his first-born son.
Lelio makes no bones about how he wants us to feel, to the point where it sometimes feels as though he is stating the obvious is six-foot neon letters.
A transgender woman fights for the right to grieve after the death of her partner.
Director and co-scribe Christian Carion, adapting from Serguei Kostine’s book, smartly distills the global Cold War politicking into Froment and Grigoriev’s tense relationship.
A spy finds himself in danger when he decides to leak documents that could lead to the downfall of the Soviet Union.
The documentary's greatest strength lies in the way Reynolds allows the scientific to mix with the philosophical and the deeply emotional.
On the 40th anniversary of Voyager’s 11bn-mile flight (and counting), this is a behind-the-scenes account from those who built and nurtured this unprecedented deep space achievement.
For me, and I suspect an entire generation, this is the definitive, almost faultless, take on one of English literature’s most powerful and evocative works.
In 19th century Wessex, a young woman inherits a farm and attracts the attention of three contrasting suitors.
In Victorian England, the independent and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene attracts three very different suitors: Gabriel Oak, a sheep farmer; Frank Troy, a reckless Sergeant; and William Boldwood, a prosperous and mature bachelor.
A full life, lived by someone who is highly aware of his contradictions, his wit, charm and the sharpness of his pen, is an extraordinary triumph to watch.
