Josh Radnor is adept at creating flawed characters who nevertheless prove sweetly likeable.
When 30-something Jesse is invited back to his alma mater, he falls for a 19-year-old college student and is faced with the powerful attraction that springs up between them.
The film is replete with tension, and director Anders Walter incorporates some nerve-racking sequences.
A family faces difficult choices when a small Danish town is left in charge of hundreds of weak and hungry German refugees at the end of World War Two.
Serra turns to period pieces not out of nostalgia, but quite the contrary, to provoke and dismantle - a grotesque imagery looking to alter the often sublime portrayal of such figures.
A group of 18th century libertines are expelled from court and wander in the forests, seeking asylum.
Despite the powerful allure of the romance in the film there is a lot more going on. An equal amount of attention is paid to the importance of identity.
When a novelist has an unexpected encounter in his professional life, he recalls falling in love with the young man's father.
Director Jon Spira does a surprisingly thorough job, and although he isn’t able to go into depth with much of the material, this is a solid start for those interested in exploring further.
Genre icon Christopher Lee is brought back to life in a documentary using fresh interviews, archive material and multiple forms of traditional and cutting-edge animation.
The family may be only one major money event away from poverty but this is a portrayal of dearth by a thousand cuts that many working class people face - and not just in America.
Story of a single mother and her two children trying to make ends meet in Florida.
While both McGregor and Diaz are watchable enough as a likeable loser and a redemptive bitch, there's never any sense that they're 'made for each other'.
A sacked caretaker takes his bosses daughter hostage... but two fallen angels are determined to make the pair fall in love.
There were a lot of bad horror films made in this era but The Lift is in a different class, and loveably so.
A lift technician finds himself drawn into a web of mystery and peril as he investigates the perplexing deadly accidents occurring in the elevators of a new office building.
Has a visual energy that is spurred on by Marian Mentrup's percussively dynamic score, which arrives at key moments.
In a dilapidated corner of Alexandria, an exceptional community of young female weightlifters is trained by the grumpy yet charismatic Captain Ramadan.
The Lighthouse may be inspired by issues caused by the isolation of Welsh workers, but it also speaks to an unhealthy yet instinctual nurturing of guilt.
A true story of two lighthouse keepers who become physically and emotionally stranded.
The film keeps hinting at elsewhere, then shows how sealed his present is from it.
Sixteen-year-old Ilay drifts through the summer on the outskirts of Berlin while a palliative nurse accompanies his ailing mother during her last days.
I'm not sure it constitutes scholarship in and of itself, but it is certainly (as with all good documentary) a satisfying look at something hereto unseen.
A documentary portrait of Lucrecia Martel during the shooting of Zama.
Pirozek knows exactly what she is doing and while this film will likely attract loud and widespread cries of #NotAllMen from the less fair sex, women will understand very well what is happening here.
A young woman vows revenge on the man who sexually exploited and bullied her sister online.
There's a magical quality about this film that coalesces in Wallecan's perspectives on Memphis landscapes and the dance performances themselves.
Dancer Lil’ Buck grew up jookin and bucking on the streets of Memphis. After a breathtaking video of him dancing to Camille Saint-Saëns’ “The Swan” accompanied by cellist Yo-Yo Ma went viral, everything changed.
A film brimming with freshness in its ideas and their execution.
Omar is a promising young musician. Separated from his Syrian family, he is stuck on a remote Scottish island awaiting the fate of his asylum request. Due to the plaster-cast on his arm, he cannot play his oud and instead wanders the epic landscapes searching for answers to a complex past and daunting future.
A look back at Zviad Gamsakhurdia's presidency, the first in Georgia's history after the fall of the Soviet Union, through the use of found footage and archive materials from the era.
It's almost as if the project ran out of money or whole scenes were cut to preserve the runtime, as after setting up some juicy ideas, the film cheats us by ushering in conclusions which leave the words 'but how did that happen?' hanging accusingly in the
A struggling writer finds himself on the up after getting hold of a drug that lets him access 100 per cent of his brain power.
Ably performed all round, with a strong turn from Sandoval in the lead, this is a timely reflection on how it feels to be an outsider in the land of the free.
An undocumented Filipina trans woman, who works as a caregiver in Brooklyn, develops a connection with the grandson of her employer.
By the time that West is ready to show his hand directly, most viewers will be so wrapped up in Linoleum that that details will scarcely matter.
When a satellite falls from orbit and crashes into the suburban home of a dysfunctional family in Ohio, the father seizes the opportunity to fulfil his dream of becoming an astronaut by re-building it into his own rocket ship. While his wife and daughter believe he's experiencing a midlife crisis, surreal events begin to unfold around him.
It quickly becomes clear that Favreau’s approach to bringing the same lifelike animal CGI from The Jungle Book to The Lion King lacks one prime element that made the former a success – emotion from a human lead.
The 3D genuinely adds a layer of freshness to the experience, right from the opening frames when we fly into the heart of the film with Zazu, and the immersive effect makes you reconsider and appreciate the exquisite hand-drawn animation all the more.
A guilt-ridden lion cub goes on an adventure. Reissued in 3D.
A portrait of two Korean American children of liquor store owners reconciling their dreams with those of their immigrant parents, against the backdrop of struggles for racial equity in Los Angeles.
