Ní Chianáin captures the sense of monumental shift – coming one way or another no matter what we do – with images of giant, ancient trees uprooted in a valley through which the flood waters have passed.
Set between 2023 and 2025, this documentary follows Irish Green Party leader and Cabinet Minister Eamon Ryan during his final 18 months in government. Once buoyed by Europe’s Green wave, Ryan now faces waning public interest in climate issues as he advocates globally for renewable energy and climate justice for the Global South.
Lorne Balfe’s magnificent, melodic score shapes our sense of time passing, just as shots of the open desert, of the emptiness around the palace, add to our sense that all that history is present and immediate.
A getaway for a couple visiting Morocco turns deadly after their car hits and kills a local boy, with consequences which spiral out of control.
The screenplay deservedly won a Silver Bear at last year’s Berlin Film Festival, taking the audience to the heart of a culture at once markedly different and universally familiar.
Nègre's finely wrought film suggests that it is not that power corrupts, but rather that corrupt people can more easily bear the experience of power.
May 1945: after the surrender of Nazi Germany, Heinrich Zwygart, Swiss ambassador in Berlin, is ordered back home. Soon he gets caught up in past decisions. He got through the war. Will he survive the peace?
Ríos is superb in the lead, revealing a natural sensuality that we rarely get to see in older actresses yet never allowing us to doubt the strength that lies behind it.
A lonely widow from the countryside moves in with her daughter in a small, conservative town, and falls in love with an independent married woman who sings in a bar.
A visually rich experience that boldly breaks down stylistic conventions, resulting in a dream-like atmosphere that vividly conjures the spectres of a troubled past.
An African woman forced into servitude in 19th-century Brazil, is suddenly transported into present-day Rio de Janeiro.
After an opening that fans of the genre will recognise from time honoured tradition, it takes an abrupt turn to the left and...after that, nothing is the same.
A fairy tale romance takes an unexpected turn when Mark discovers his beautiful bride-to-be, Connie, has actually been plotting against him.
Philémon is a very sympathetic character, and Hammond brings a real sense of vulnerability to the role.
The day they move into a new neighbourhood, the Feral family plans to look as normal and friendly as possible. But their son, Philemon, is no ordinary teenager. When he gets closer to his new neighbor, Camila, his thirst for blood grows and his difference becomes impossible to hide…
This strange recipe of Hollywood star, and local actors Redman and Fairbass only serves to make an otherwise abysmal attempt at a political statement all the more enjoyable.
Denzel Washington plays ex-British paratropper who comes to terms with life outside the army.
Al-Kateab and Watt capture not just the horror of war but the vibrancy of those attempting to carry on their lives as best they can against its backdrop.
A young woman's struggles with love, war and motherhood over the span of five years in Syria.
Looks at the ways the younger generation seek ways to live in peace rather than perpetual conflict.
South Sudan is the youngest country in the world, at war with itself, with over 350,000 people killed since its inception in 2011. However, through this darkness, its endless
cycle of conflict has hope: the determination of young women and men who refuse to
give up on peace.
For The Sake Of Vicious demonstrates that you don't need exotic settings to make a pulsing action film.
An innocent nurse, a tortured maniac and a suspicious hostage face off against a wave of violent intruders as they descend upon their place of refuge on Halloween night.
The narrative arc is clumsy and disjointed due to inconsistent pacing, the tone varies uncertainly between grit and a kind of solemn sentimentality, and most of the scenes drag on so long and artlessly that the drama runs out of them.
An American mercenary fights fascism in the early days of the Spanish Civil War.
In places we jump straight from one action sequence to another and there really isn't enough plot to hold them together, but the makers probably figured that no-one watches such films for their plots anyway.
Secret agent 00 doesn't let his limited height get in the way of beating the baddies in this Filipino action caper.
This documentary sets out to explore the development of the phenomenon at the same time as tracking changing notions of what seems real and of how realness itself is understood and valued.
The Found Footage Phenomenon is an independent documentary charting the origins of the found footage sub-genre, tracking it through to the technique's current form and asks what the future is.
The exposure of the film’s underlying structures...invites audiences to think about the processes of storytelling and interpretation, which is important, because it’s a story which took the missing women away.
A creative documentary following ten years in the life of a fortysomething Tunisian mother, a cleaning lady from a poor environment, who sees her two teenage daughters become radicalised, run away and join the terrorist organisation Daesh in Libya.
Kunis’ performance is raw and ugly in just the way it needs to be.
Ten years of opioids have left Molly’s life in shambles. A new drug may give her a chance to break free if she is able to stay clean for four days, with the help of her mother Deb, a tough, clear-eyed woman. Their love will be tested to the limits.
Williams’ work is heavily invested in the ambiguities of coincidence...In literature, where there is room to play, this is one thing, but when condensed in a film it starts to feel like clumsy contrivance.
The story of events leading up to what might be a fateful meeting, if the young man and woman involved haven't left it too late.
Because it wouldn't be a Chris Morris production unless it made me feel horrendously uncomfortable in some way or other, I laughed a lot, realised with horror what nightmarish events I was laughing at, and then started to laugh at that instead.
Four bungling would-be suicider bombers try to go out with a bang.
Goiginger once again proves that he is a keen student of human nature, behaviour, interactions with society and the eternal pursuit of living one’s life in one's own way.
A family of professional clowns is hit by tragedy.
It’s a sweet little film at heart, more Peshwari naan than spicy samosa, and if you’re looking to while away an hour and a bit without making too many demands on your brain, you could do a lot worse.
Determined to disrupt the wedding of his ex-girlfriend by bankrupting her family, underachieving, wanna-be rapper Vinny and his neighborhood pals concoct a plan to steal her family’s jewels from a supermarket safe.
The writer/director also captures the way that family conversations can flow from the inconsequential to the serious without warning and how no act of weakness or failure goes unrecalled.
A debt owed by the son of an extended family becomes a source of tension at a gathering of the clan.
Kim directs with confidence and skill, managing the tension well and able to shift easily between downbeat drama and fast-paced action.
Jun-gang takes care of his little sister while being threatened with eviction, while Gi-su lives alone since his father was killed… by Jun-gang’s father. Will they be able to resist the vicious cycle brought on by such a sordid crime?
Instead of being driven by effects and action, Frailty holds your attention with utter disbelief. You can accept what is happening, but do you want to?
Bill Paxton’s kids think he’s gone
nutzo in religious thriller about a
serial axe murderer.
For such a studiously artificial work...it is profoundly moving.
After discovering case files from a 1950s gender clinic, a cast of transgender actors turn a talk show inside out to confront the legacy of a young trans woman forced to choose between honesty and access.
A brilliant but egotistical scientist brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation
While drawing on influences from the Golden Age of Universal horror movies such as Wolfman and Frankenstein, this is a animal entirely borne of Burton - and it's all the better for it.
The young Victor Frankenstein resurrects his beloved pet dog.
It is only sporadically involving with even the usually hypnotic Huppert struggling to make an impression.
Three generations grappling with a life-changing experience during one day of a vacation in Sintra, Portugal, a historic town known for its dense gardens and fairy-tale villas and palaces.
In an attempt to impress his wife and boss, a nerdy man is lured by a 1-900 TV ad to party with a strange little creature called Frankie Freako. All hell breaks loose when Frankie and his two friends wreak interdimensional havoc in his life.
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