This Invisible Man is a fallen aristocrat of a film, a mere shadow of what it might once have been but clinging to its pride nonetheless, and rather admirable for it.
A young British widow shelters an old medical school colleague, a man who has somehow turned himself invisible, and who is beginning to lose his moral compass.
The way that director Lee Haven Jones frames male and female characters is intriguing, with classic gendered shots reversed.
Over an evening a wealthy family gathers for a sumptuous dinner with guests in their ostentatious house in the Welsh mountains. Served by a mysteriously disturbing young woman, the assembled party do not realise they are about to eat their last supper.
Robert Tinnell proves that they do, in fact, make 'em like they used to.
A slice of life story that follows a large Italian family on Christmas Eve as they prepare for the traditional Feast of the Seven Fishes, reminisce about the past and seek love in the future.
Generational tensions and expectations are also explored and you can feel Sarutyte's love for all of her characters, each lovingly crafted, no matter how small.
A woman finds herself in increasingly curious situations after the death of her father.
Masked men take the celebrity host of true crime show The Grim Reality hostage but he has no idea how to give them what they want - and then people start getting killed.
While the end result doesn’t fully deliver on its excellent premise, being a little too light of touch, heavy on montage and spare in its scripting, this is nevertheless one of the more accessible cinematic takes on existentialism.
A hospitalised man finds his life shifting after the arrival of a new patient.
This is Boundaoui's second film and her style is straightforward and undecorative but, if anything, this adds weight to what she has to say.
Journalist Assia Boundaoui sets out to investigate long-brewing rumors that her quiet, predominantly Arab-American neighborhood was being monitored by the FBI — and in the process, she exposes a surveillance program on a scale no one could have imagined.
They say a story can grow legs and, here, it does that and then hops off in surprising directions - taking us on a journey not just into the world of memes and their manipulation but also into considerations of 'ownership' and misappropriation.
When indie comic character Pepe the Frog becomes an unwitting icon of hate, his creator, artist Matt Furie, fights to bring Pepe back from the darkness and navigate America's cultural divide.
Feels Like Home avoids the usual traps of a thriller-chamber drama genre combination such as unnecessary repetitions that are the product of laying out the cards too soon.
A woman is kidnapped by a family who claim that she is their missing daughter. She must impersonate this other woman in order to survive while she tries to find a way out of her nightmare.
Tellingly, despite all this extra material, the film does not feel slower and does not become boring. If anything, it’s better balanced, with a more fluid sense of momentum.
A little Hobbit from the Shire sets out with eight companions on a journey to destroy the powerful One Ring and save Middle Earth from the Dark Lord Sauron.
The tension is masterfully handled in a revenge thriller narrative which also poses difficult ethical questions.
Jules is a drag artist in London. After a performance, he is brutally attacked and, traumatised, withdraws into himself. Months later, he recognises his assailant in a gay sauna and begins an affair with him, incognito. A revenge thriller.
As a family saga in the tradition of O'Neill and Miller, August Wilson reveals its destructive nature
Pittsburgh in the Fifties exposes the prejudice and failed ambition of an ex-baseball contender/now garbage collector and how it affects the hopes and dreams of his family.
Once the walls start to move, there's barely a moment to catch your breath as sharp editing, clever camera angles and good use of sound, squeeze the tension of every moment.
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Schweblin’s work is rich in sub-plots and allegories and really could have done with being slimmed down a bit for the screen.
A young woman lies dying far from home. A boy sits beside her. She is not his mother. He is not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, an invisible threat and the power and desperation of family.
A kaleidoscopic sequence explores questions of identity through some of the trippiest black and white imagery you'll have seen on the big screen for a long time.
Four men have a strange encounter during the English Civil War.
Ricardo Álvarez Canales and Andrzej Rattinger’s dialogue is wonderfully observed and the two leads give lively, fresh performances which make them feel like real 14-year-old girls, looking at the world in a way most adults forget.
A reimagining of the quinceañera as a chaotic mix of comedy and creature horror.
Christian Bale - reduced lately to whispering solemnity in the likes of Dark Knight and Terminator Salvation - gets to really cut loose with Dicky in a performance that is sure to give Geoffrey Rush a run for his money on Oscar night.
What comes across more than anything is how the American way dominates.
Saraya is part of a tight-knit Norwich family who scrape a living on the local wrestling scene. Her dream is to become a bright new WWE star. When opportunity knocks, does she have what it takes to make the grade?
At a time when safety is the key to Hollywood's washroom, David Fincher places a bomb under the plumbing. Expect to be shocked, freaked, thrilled and gutted.
An insomniac hooks up with a man on a plane who will change his life forever.
As critiques of the wealth gap are concerned, it’s not very deep, but it’s buoyed up by some strong supporting performances and Hunt’s skill at capturing the action in the ring.
Two young men from different backgrounds find their destinies linked when they meet up in the world of illegal bare-knuckle fighting.
Sociopolitics spritzes delicately, like the water from the club's sprinklers, over the whole affair.
Tee girl Isabel feels strangely drawn to Dr. Palanca, the president of the country club where she works. However, after piecing together a violent picture of what lies beneath the club’s pristine surface, she realizes that what began as an innocent infatuation is actually rooted in a sinister shared history.
Building up a positive narrative about how filmmakers used their skills to ensure that justice was done at these early trials, the documentary then takes a darker turn.
A documentary about the filmmakers who collected Nazi films of atrocities committed during the Holocaust to provide evidence at the Nuremberg Trials.
In an overlap of documentary convention and semi-scripted faux-realism that offers a playful, frivolous edge to proceedings, even if the aim of its hybrid make-up isn’t always obvious, we have a defiant rejoinder to narrative and crime-led docs
When the Filmmaker is told his next film must be about crime, sex or celebrity to get funded, he takes matters into his own hands and begins shooting in his home with a cast of characters connected to his own life.
While there's no doubting the director's commitment and connection to what is happening here, it's more difficult to engage with it as an outside audience.
The director turns her camera on her father, as she and her siblings find out an increasing number of family secrets.
When an actress goes looking for the man who assaulted her, she turns her trauma into art and asks the question nobody wanted her to: why didn't you do anything?
This is far from traditional, neutral journalism, but it's effective.
Eli Roth and a professional group of scientists, researchers and activists sail around the globe to unveil the truth behind the death of millions of sharks.
Although designed in a B-movie mould, with classical film noir touches, this has the advantage of a relaxed Truffaut, a glamorous Ardant and an intense Trintignant
Murder mystery involving an estate agent and his secretary in the South of France.
