Patrick Wilde's script has an assurance that reflects the emotional uncertainties and suffocating family pressures of kids growing up in a suburban English new town.
Lazarov lets his tale unfold gradually like a gentle thaw
As an elderly couple who live in the traditions of their ancestors face the possibility of one of them dying, will the survivor be able to reconnect with their daughter?
Barbosa's film painstakingly recreates that journey and, in so doing, also gives viewers an oblique insight into the director's feelings about the loss of his friend.
Before entering a prestigious American university, Gabriel Buchmann decides to travel the world for one year... finally reaching Kenya.
Perhaps better understood as poetry than as science fiction.
An injured forest ranger on a routine mission is saved by two off-the-grid survivalists. What is initially a welcome rescue grows more suspicious as the son and his renegade father reveal a cultish devotion to the forest.
As Psihoyos dissects the marketing that has kept men believing in meat for decades, he's also gently shifting the concept of masculinity itself into a more positive space.
James Wilks, an elite special forces trainer and winner of The Ultimate Fighter, embarks on a quest for the truth in nutrition and uncovers the world's most dangerous myth.
As with most of the best games, the concept is simple; the genius is in the execution.
Seven millenials discover an obscure electronic board game and decide to test their wits against it. When it tells them they need to kill 24 people in the next 24 hours, mayhem ensues.
Ji delivers some impressive moves and there are a few nice set pieces, so it’s entertaining enough, but there’s a real shortage of ideas which might distinguish it from the literally hundreds of other zombie films now out there.
Citizens from upscale Gangnam in Seoul start experiencing unusual and terrifying symptoms, devolving into inhuman creatures, leaving only a few survivors with the possibility to make it out alive.
Simoni is good and directing team Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah, whose previous work looked quite different, effectively demonstrate that they can master this style.
A group of friends living in Antwerp decide that they want to rise to the top of the city's cocaine business.
The acting is ensemble, which means no-one stands out and everyone chips in. Day-Lewis, unrecognisable behind a 'tache wedge, is the most memorable, due to The Butcher being a bigger sicko than anyone else.
Violent story of brutality on the
streets in the early days of New
York.
With beautifully drawn relationships and a fine central performance, The Garden Left Behind takes frequently politicised subject matter and reminds us of the human side of it.
A story about the relationship between a young trans woman and her grandmother as they navigate transition and struggle to build a life for themselves as undocumented immigrants in New York City.
It's a stodgy interpretation of something that wasn't that fresh to begin with.
After Garfield's unexpected reunion with his long-lost father, ragged alley cat Vic, he and his canine friend Odie are forced from their perfectly pampered lives to join Vic on a risky heist.
In her poem to her husband, Claire constantly directs the attention of the viewer to his personal life, as a way to understand his unique creative process.
An in-depth look at the underrated career of an idiosyncratic New York singer-songwriter.
Whatever structuring the directors are doing is achieved with the lightest of touches, so that we feel as though we’re just along for the ride with these guys.
It’s edge of your seat stuff. It’s also unabashedly exploitation cinema.
A group of friends’ sun-drenched Florida vacation curdles into a nightmare after they stumble upon a remote cult devoted to an ancient alligator deity.
There is throughout this film a driving positive energy, a commitment to turning frustration into action.
Following the outrageous activist group Gays Against Guns, the film takes us on a rollercoaster through neon-splashed street protests and the ivory corridors of power.
There's a continual nagging sense that this was, perhaps, once two separate ideas for short films which the directors have grafted together in a way that means the film as a whole falls short.
Gaza, today. Sixty-year-old sherman Issa is secretly in love with Siham, a woman who works as a dressmaker at the market. Finally determined to propose, he discovers an ancient statue of Apollo in his fishing net, which he decides to hide at home. When Hamas discovers the existence of this mysterious treasure, troubles start for Issa... Will he succeed in declaring his love to Siham?
Though the story here isn’t terribly complex, the richness of the setting and the depth of lore surrounding the central phenomenon gives it a potency beyond that of the average horror tale.
Following her husband back to the place where he grew up, an artist begins to experience nightmares and gradually discovers the dark secret behind them.
Frost said that when he wrote the film it took him a while to recognise that he was in horror territory, and indeed the film works equally well as a culture clash comedy.
Looking forward to spending a vacation on the small Swedish island of Svälta, the Smith family is unsettled by the unfriendly mainlanders who advise them to avoid it at all costs, especially during the Karantan festival. But the family is in deep need of some time away and stubbornly decides to take the ferry anyway.
The latter part of the movie labours as Reitman aims firmly for the rose-tinted jugular of parents courtesy of cameo appearances that don't sit comfortably within the fabric of the film.
After the death of Egon Spengler, his daughter and grandkids find themselves bustin' a whole new army of ghosts.
Painting by numbers and staying comfortably within the lines might pass time but I wouldn't call it entertainment.
When the discovery of an ancient artefact unleashes an evil force, Ghostbusters new and old must join forces to protect their home and save the world from a second ice age.
Stefania Tortorella makes a delightful heroine, with Gloria switching overnight from sweet but downtrodden store assistant to a woman with the kind of glow that makes everybody want to be near her.
A woman who has never had an orgasm finally finds the right man. There is just one issue: he’s a ghost.
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