The stunning visuals - beautifully shot in a whirl of rich colours and edited together with feverish energy - easily overwhelm the plot, as does the pounding, vibrant score.
Is a series of grisly murders connected to the death of a young girl 15 years ago?
You can enter through the objects, like an Eames chair or three pairs of Ray Bans, bought online. Or through the religious conflict inherent in a bacon bagel.
Lightning-in-a-bottle, Noah Baumbach’s love poem to his star and co-writer Greta Gerwig recalls Godard’s early celebrations of Anna Karina, but, as a New York movie, it’s beautiful in a brand new way.
His attempt at satire digs too deep into the muddy waters of exaggeration
Offbeat comedy about a wannabe musician who finds himself out of his depth when he joins an avant garde rock band led by the enigmatic Frank - a musical genius who hides himself inside a large fake head.
Raaphorst and scriptwriter Chris W Mitchell seem so proud of the look that they completely forget that a film also needs to have a decent plot and characters lying beneath the costumes.
Russian soldiers try to track down an evil scientist who is working for the Nazis.
Though the drama is crudely drawn with familiar Hammer strokes, this is a film that benefits from both tight scripting and a willingness to push boundaries.
An experiment by the famous Baron Frankenstein goes awry when his creation seeks revenge on past tormentors.
Fabienne Berthaud's film meanders between dissonant, ethereal scenes in the sanatorium and the frenetic action of a photographer's studios... the contrast between these two worlds is absolute.
A fashion model crumbles beneath the incessant pressure of an ugly industry.
Some of the plot twists strain believability but Ross has a tight hold of the film's emotional drivers, mixing moods like a heady and dangerous cocktail so that a disturbing tension builds.
A chef finds himself becoming obsessed by jealousy after a tearful admission from his latest love.
Frequently and not at all randomly, the film switches to colour, posing a charming riddle that reflects states of happiness or other kinds of intensity.
In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious French man who visits the fiancé's grave to lay flowers.
After being accused of beating up his wife, Freddy finds himself in the biggest crisis of his life. No one will believe that the real culprit is Eddy, who looks just like him.
But the main strength of the film - an apparent labour of love for Aranda - is that it offers a sadly rare onscreen depiction of genuine sisterhood.
A young nun flees her convent at the outbreak of the Civil War and seeks refuge in a brothel only to be liberated by a group of anarchist women determined to fight on the front line.
Director Dominic Bridges and co-writer Rae Brunton strike a delicate balance between the comedic and the sinister.
Hussein, a wide-boy estate agent, doesn't realise he's sharing his apartment with a forgotten stranger, a master of concealment - until his campaign of revenge starts to hit home.
The script is dangerously low on laughs and appears charmless
Two turkeys from opposite sides of the tracks must put aside their differences and team up to travel back in time to change the course of history and get turkey off the holiday menu for good
A disillusioned Confederate army deserter returns to Mississippi and leads a militia of fellow deserters, runaway slaves, and women in an uprising against the corrupt local Confederate government.
Production designer Olivier Radot and costume designer Pascaline Chavanne revel in the colors and textures of Seventies casino ambiance.
Nice, 1976, Following the failure of her marriage, Agnès Le Roux returns from Africa to her mother Renée, owner of the Casino Le Palais de la Méditerranée and falls in love with Renée's confidant, Maurice Agnelet.
If TV sitcom veteran Carrivick’s film debut doesn’t quite milk the film's comic potential to the full there are still worse ways to pass 86 minutes – in this dimension, anyway.
A sci-fi nerd and his two mates discover a time travel portal – in their local pub.
Montgomery Clift presents Freud as a rather more dashing figure than we are used to seeing but his dark eyes and furrowed brow are ideal for conveying the intensity at the heart of the tale.
A witty, gory and trippy descent into altered states of consciousness, eroticised power plays and the clash between humankind, monstrous entities and hybridised 'others'.
Scientists open a door to a parallel universe, with horrific consequences.
The quietness of the film, the dryness of much of its humour, brings something different to situations that would normally be played in full-on wacky style.
A bedraggled woman in a wedding dress faces a tumultuous train ride.
