This is a gem of a role and Peretti allows himself to be fully absorbed by it.
An ageing Argentine Serge Gainsbourg wannabe struggles with a career he can't seem to get on track, an affair he doesn't want, and a crime he didn't mean to commit.
Danny Boyle brings his customary energy to James Graham’s adaptation of his own stage play, which flies along quicker than paper through a printing press.
Drama charting Rupert Murdoch's acquisition of The Sun newspaper and its upturning of the landscape under editor Larry Lamb in 1969.
An enjoyable and informative fly on the wall documentary.
A documentary chronicling the unexpected kinship between a dancer in her 70s and an urban artist in his 20s as they take over Los Angeles with their movement street art.
Southern's distinctive approach suggests that this is a testing ground for a filmmaker whose profile could rise high.
Black market gun deals, petty scams, convenience store stick-ups and drug-fuelled parties reveal glimpses into the lives of young misfits and low level criminals across New York City.
You can’t help thinking that West would have made a better (and perhaps more genuinely unsettling) film if he’d focused more on the inner demons of his young protagonists
An old inn is about to shut its doors for the final time and two of its employees get more than they bargain for when they go ghost hunting.
The subtlety Vogt employs as a director pays off in spades as he gets as much creepy mileage from the disturbance of soil and water as any amount of CGI could muster.
During the bright Nordic summer, a group of children reveal their dark and mysterious powers when the adults aren't looking.
In short, Insect is a self-consuming product, always at pains to expose its artifice as it offers behind-the-scenes commentary on both its own and the play's making.
An amateur drama troupe rehearse the Čapek Brothers’ The Insect Play.
The person-centred approach pays off, making the film a lot more accessible than it might have been, and Deschamps still finds room to explain the financial concepts necessary to understanding how the crisis developed.
An autopsy of what led to the largest bankruptcy filing in US history.
Fisher has not taken the easy route, of creating Ben as pure victim to rage against the evil and conventional.
College film student Benjamin Glass (played by writer-director Aaron Fisher) has it all: ADHD, OCD, borderline personality. And he’s also bipolar. When a misunderstanding threatens to expel him from college, Glass pushes back.
Pereira and Cayo could probably carry a “two-hander” – which The Instinct is – with no trouble, but only if they had something real in their characters to work with
A home invasion thriller featuring a dog trainer trying to modify a human's brain.
The rather conventional structure of Yana Ugrekhelidze's film, which follows the couple over several years, serves to highlight the ordinariness of its subjects and the Kafkaesque nature of the invisible prison woven around them.
Alexander's transgender identity means he is obliged to lead a life of secrecy in his home country.
Ziad Doueiri's latest film shows how the embers of history can stay warm for a long time, easily flaring up under the right circumstances - even those that seem innocuous.
A spat between Lebanese Christian and a Palestinian refugee leads to division between their two communities.
The silence between the calls serves as a space for the horror of them to fully take shape in the viewers’ mind.
The destruction caused by the war against Ukraine is shown in lengthy tableaux. Intercepted phone conversations between Russian soldiers and their families set up a parallel world.
A little light drama with a message for workaholics.
Widower Ben Whittaker discovers that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion company.
For the most part this is a lyrical and lightly handled odd couple road movie that achieves a subtle resonance, although it is almost scuppered by a sudden major tonal shift in the film's final act.
An 80-year-old translator, Ali Ungár, comes across a book written by a former SS officer recounting his war experiences in Slovakia and realises that one of the chapters may well describe his own parents’ execution.
This is a powerfully atmospheric film that goes beyond the conventional techniques of documentary to communicate concepts we might otherwise struggle to grasp.
A documentary asking what we can do with nuclear waste that will remain dangerous for a hundred thousand years.
The purely descriptive editing undercuts the otherwise engaging narrative, leaving the impression of an ambitious but fragmented look at monastic life.
Portrait of the Shaolin Monastery, where Buddhist peace and enlightenment are pursued through the practice of martial arts.
It is cleverly animated, intelligent and full of passion. Unfortunately, its mingling of the repetitive musical style of Noh with modern metal riffs, whilst it seems to please some viewers, will leave others wanting to scream for all the wrong reasons.
Inu-Oh is born with unique physical characteristics, and the horrified adults cover every inch of his body with garments, including a mask on his face... but through his creative abilities he forges a different destiny to the one they intend.
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