A top professional bodyguard gets a new client, a hitman who is required to testify at the International Court of Justice. They must put their differences aside and work together to make it to the trial on time.
Reynolds has proved he's the king of dry delivery in everything from Deadpool to Pokemon Detective Pikachu but even his comedy Kevlar can't protect him from this script.
A bodyguard and two assassins team up to stop the destruction of Europe.
Writer/director Basholli directs with a deceptively simple handheld aesthetic, emphasising the bleak reality of the setting.
Fahrije’s husband has been missing since the war in Kosovo. She sets up her own small business to provide for her kids, but as she fights against a patriarchal society that does not support her, she faces a crucial decision: to wait for his return, or to continue to persevere.
It captures the in-your-face style of hoarding programmes perfectly but it's 96 minutes long with no advert breaks, and watching it quickly becomes exhausting.
A crew of TV personalities, including a professional organiser, a psychologist, two ghost hunters and a team of junk removers, attempts to reform a legendary hoarder who owns four condemned and haunted properties.
Hoard goes further, creeps around, becomes something you can start to smell, to taste.
1984, London: Seven-year-old Maria and her mother live in their own loving world built on sorting through bins and collecting shiny rubbish. One night, their world falls apart, and we join Maria a decade later, living with her foster mother.
A great deal of care and attention has gone into the design of the house.
A medical student and her reluctant colleague are making routine house calls to administer flu vaccines. When they step into one decaying, junk-crammed home, something immediately feels wrong. Then they find the tunnels.
Although it is technically beautifully realised and features an impressively varied and supportive score from Terry and Gyan Riley, not all of Girard’s connections fully work.
An interconnected series of encounters between Native peoples and European settlers in and around modern-day Montreal.
Her experience is, of course, only that of an individual, and cannot represent what happened to all of the other hostages, but it still has significance.
On October 7th,
during a raid by Hamas on her kibbutz, Israeli-American Liat Atzili was
kidnapped, prompting an urgent and heart-wrenching fight for her release by
her family. Through a deeply intimate lens, parents Yehuda and Chaya cope
with fear and uncertainty as they are thrust into a global conflict unfolding in
real time.
An old school slice of comfort and joy for the cold season.
An unpopular teacher, a talented but badly behaved student and a cook who recently lost her son in Vietnam spend Christmas together in an otherwise empty boarding school.
Hold Me Tight [has] the sensorial acuteness to abduct us straight to the place where, providentially or not, poignant life decisions are being forged and the creations of new realities begin when the world around seems to collapse.
Despite being rather on the nose in terms of his plot beats, del Paso has an eye for a strong image and a psychological feel for the insidious viewpoint of the adults, washing over the children like a bad benediction.
Trouble brews at a secluded exclusive summer camp in the Mexican countryside for boys from a prestigious private school.
The film is competently shot, with some nicely directed chases and a central action scene in the dark that stands out.
Years after a devastating war, a hardened survivor and a young boy are forced from their home by creatures capable of imitating humans. As they journey north in search of refuge, their fragile bond is pushed to its limit.
Where serial killers have elsewhere tended to be treated as powerful individuals, even as heroic in their ability to throw off conditioning, here Mark emerges as a symptom of a more deeply troubled society.
A young photographer, travels to Hollywood hoping to make it as a cameraman in the movie business. Unfortunately, the only jobs he can find are shooting porn loops for a sleazy producer. Depressed and increasingly delusional, he begins to take out his frustrations on women he meets - by strangling them.
Likely to put a smile on the faces of horror fans who favour the dissection of ideas over dismemberment.
In Italy's happiest town, a haunted teacher discovers dark secret behind weekly gatherings where locals seek healing from a teenage boy's embrace. His quest to save the youth reveals the sinister nature of a community hiding behind joy.
Whilst some parts of the story feel a bit too contrived, the film’s mixture of good-heartedness and fierce humour carries it easily over most of the bumps in the road
A Maori boy who misses his deceased mum goes on a road trip with three nuns who are trying to save their convent from developers.
Despite its tendency to lose sight of a unifying thread, Holy Electricity picks up a musical cadence, guiding the viewer through a series of moments that shine with a disarming honesty.
When young Gonga and his uncle Bart stumble upon a case of rusty crosses in a scrapyard, they repurpose them into neon crucifixes and start selling them in their neighbourhood.
The real candy is the omnipresent densely uncomfortable atmosphere that comes on top of the richly detailed observations and conclusions in the film's lower layers.
Many years after leaving, Joel returns home to move his mother Monika to a care facility for the elderly struggling with dementia. But as she starts to have terrifying visions, he begins to suspect something supernatural is at work.
Too much of the social grammar remains out of reach unless viewers are willing to research afterwards, and a drama this grounded in real structures shouldn’t require homework to fully land.
Two childhood friends from a small North Indian village chase a police job that promises them the dignity they’ve long been denied. But as they inch closer to their dream, mounting desperation threatens the bond that holds them together.
This is a quiet and thoughtful film with slowly building power. It will leave you awed by the resilience of its subjects yet angry that they needed it.
A personal story about the return of Sámi artefacts — long held in a museum — to their homeland.
Premo never imposes an overt framing narrative, but interesting things emerge.
Three Trump supporters from different backgrounds unite to campaign across America in 2020, advocating for his re-election while laying foundations for what they hope will be a long-lasting political movement.
Flitting between the agonies of trying to be socially appropriate, real violence and frantic comedy, Homewrecker is a fast paced, character-driven film that will follow you around until you give it all of your attention.
A woman asks a stranger she meets at a yoga class to redecorate her home, then refuses to let her leave.
