While it might be fun to laugh at carefully crafted slapstick for half an hour, it's hard for it to maintain its momentum for the duration of a feature.
Slapstick comedy about a
runaway wife obsessed with ice.
Documentary about a lifetime's struggle to persuade affluent nations that their energy greed is melting Antarctica which will eventually destroy life as we know it
The film is heavy with sexual tension, primarily explored from a female point of view. It's also rich in humour, the two often interwoven to great effect.
Mary moves back to her suburban hometown to find that the suburbs are scarier in more ways than she ever remembered.
The narrative as a whole may be implausible, with the whiff of a disposable, sensation seeking airport novel about it, but it's a solidly directed and performed film that despite pushing the believability stakes provides an engaging evening's viewing.
A woman with amnesia has to uncover her connection to a politician's murder.
A still, painterly vision in silvery monochrome - capturing the quiet contemplation of the two women and simultaneously encouraging the same on the part of the viewer.
A novice nun comes face-to-face with her family’s past in 1960s Poland.
Although this is, in part, a darkly comic exploration of man's inhumanity to man, there is a current of optimism, flowing like the artwork, beneath the story.
The story of a reluctant angel turns into a flight of the imagination.
Iceman is not just about Kelab’s battle between himself and those who have violently wronged him, but about the external and internal wars between man, nature and nurture.
A Neolithic hunter in the Ötztal Alps sets out to get revenge, carrying an infant with him, after the other members of his tribe are murdered.
James Schamus's script is sharp and witty. Lee is very good at getting affecting performances out of actors, especially the younger ones.
In 1973 suburbia, several middle-class families experimenting with substance abuse and the swinging lifestyle find their lives spinning beyond their control.
There is no recognisable storyline, although the emotional content has potential if it wasn't dissipated by a Calvinist attitude towards manipulation and falsehood.
A group of drop-outs have 'fun'
pretending to be mentally ill.
While Framestore and Cadence have notionally brought the various creatures to 'life' they've not got that vital spark one would hope for.
A young girl who goes through a difficult experience begins to see everyone's imaginary friends who have been left behind as their real-life friends have grown up.
A powerful condemnation of endemic and structural racism, a sweet love story and, at a technical level, a beautifully produced film, If Beale Street Could Talk has much to recommend it.
A pregnant woman tries to prove her lover's innocence.
Rose Byrne anchors the whole damn thing with a performance that gives the sense of wobbling for eternity on a tightrope without ever quite falling off.
With her life crashing down around her, Linda attempts to navigate her child’s mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist.
Miller is impressive in letting viewers see and understand what she’s going through despite her character’s attempts to keep everything on an even keel.
12-year-old Michael enjoys a carefree boyhood until the day his mother comes home with a black eye and a busted lip.
Perhaps film can never really capture the essence of dance, but Wechsler does the next best thing and captures what it means to those involved in its creation.
A documentary following a group of New York City's top modern dancers as they reconstruct an iconic and mysterious work by the legendary Merce Cunningham, revealing what it takes to keep a dance alive.
The strength of The Illusion Of A Quiet Night lies in the huge range of perspectives it contains.
Filmed during one night in July 2025 by forty filmmakers and hundreds of citizens, The Illusion of a Quiet Night paints a vast collective portrait of war-torn Ukraine.
Though it is flawed and uneven and can't escape the wide shadows of the London gangsta/hood films of the last few decades, Ill Manors does showcase a bold and confrontational directing style and subject matter
Youth crime drama, set on a London council estate.
All this would work just as well on a stage, and Griffiths doesn’t really do much with it to get beyond that, though she handles the actors well and there’s some nice set dressing and lighting. It’s still a gripping watch.
An author who made a career by examining her own trauma sits down to interview her nephew for a new book about his history as a model. Each of them reveal much more than expected and confront some of their most deeply hidden secrets.
In less adept hands this could have become a clash of content but Václav keeps all his elements in balance, managing to celebrate the beauty of opera on the one hand while showing us uglier mini dramas playing out at the front and back of house.
Biopic of composer Josef Mysliveček.
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