There are many scenes delightful to young children which older viewers will find shallow and gimmicky, whilst the younger ones will be left puzzled and bored by the strange romance between Sarah and her enemy.
A teenage girl enters a mysterious maze to try and win back her baby brother from the Goblin King.
On strictly technical grounds, Laberinto De Pasiones is fairly average, but watching it with a cold beer on a warm summer's evening it strikes a chord.
Early Almodóvar romp, focussing on a nymphomaniac, the son of a Middle Eastern emperor and a gay terrorist.
A series set in 1945. Finally, there is peace in Europe. In Switzerland too, a whole generation breathes a sigh of relief as it faces a new and hopeful future. Peacetime, although long awaited and promising, also holds unforeseen challenges.
While the film has political and sociological themes, it ultimately succeeds because it’s about the true spirit of the people.
In the sprawling African metropolis of Lagos, a fiercely independent young cab driver meets a band of radiantly reckless sex workers whose sisterhood pulls her into danger and joy, setting her on a journey toward her own transformation.
The architecture of the film - and buildings and angles are an integral part of why it works so well - rests upon the twin pillars of Katie Johnson and Alec Guinness.
Criminals find their heist plot foiled by a little old lady.
Teenage traumas in Sacramento, Cal, for 17-year-old Lady Bird who has love issues, sex issues, mom issues, when what she wants most is to be out of there, anywhere, especially New York because it's a long way away and packed with artistic promise.
For a documentary directly focused on the money side of the cannabis industry in California, Russo finds poignancy in the roots of the plant’s history.
The story of six women who come out of the shadows of the cannabis underground to enter the new commercial industry in California.
This is an intelligent, sumptuous period piece, shining an intriguing light into the corners of the 18th-century Imperial Court of China.
An empress commissions a painting of herself from a French outsider and Jesuit priest in hopes
of stirring her husband's interest in this lavish period piece.
The themes attach themselves like lead to each exchange, giving everything a theatrical quality and rendering character development so bland that no amount of roving camera can offset the airless result.
The interwoven stories of five women are told over the course of a fateful night in a Haifa club.
Much more fun than, by any reasonable standard, it ought to be.
When Royal Air Force pilot Lt. Kate Sinclair is shot down over Afghanistan, she finds refuge in an abandoned underground bunker where deadly man-made biological weapons - half human, half alien - are awakened.
Thorne still comes across as being at the stage where many aspects of her work are experimental. She’s yet to settle into her style.
Darcy, a bisexual woman, is divorcing her husband. Her close friends all arrive at her parents’ lakeside house, ready to see her through this major life development. However, everyone is distracted by their own dramas, relationships and personal milestones.
Anderson’s use of the documentary framework is an inspired choice, since it lends what we’re seeing an air of reality that helps build the tension to jangling point.
All the young actors handle their roles well with Akerlie an impressive, understated lead.
Lillan and some friends travel back to the remote cabin by the little lake, where her twin brother died last year, and soon after they arrive strange things start happening.
The setup may call to mind other films about women starting life anew in beautiful exotic locales — let’s say Tuscany for example. However, Land puts forth a quieter and darker tone.
The poignant story of one woman’s search, in the aftermath of an unfathomable event, for meaning in the vast and harsh American wilderness.
Freitas' dedication to the cause is admirable but this film needs a much tighter edit.
In an occupied land belonging to a sugarcane processing plant, the Landless Workers Movement fights to press the government into making land reform and settling the families encamped.
Structurally, this is a fairly straightforward documentary, but the processes it depicts are important.
A film about ecological restoration and the a worldwide movement to turn back the tide of mass extinction and restore planet Earth to ecological balance.
In places the film feels skeletal, the bones of the story barely covered, let alone properly fleshed out.
Twins Alfie and Elise find a magical watch on Christmas Eve and are swept by the Wish Collector into the musical Land of Sometimes, where they learn that wishes have consequences.
Production values and performances are exemplary, with only a nagging tendency to resort to flashbacks.
A dark and cynical piece about
trust and death featuring
dysfunctional marriages, a
missing person, a bad cop and
some sad women in a smart
Aussie suburb.
Part slowly unfolding mystery, part attack on exploitation in the gig economy, Lapsis is a character-driven drama with some smart comic moments.
After a series of two-bit hustles and unsuccessful swindles, Ray takes a job in a strange new realm of the gig economy: trekking deep into the forest, pulling cable over miles of terrain to connect large, metal cubes that link together the new quantum trading market.
Lapwing is a gritty, dark, period drama with more bite than the setting suggests.
In 1555 England, the love affair between an aphonic English girl and the son of Egyptians seeking illegal passage to Europe from a small community of salt farmers, brings a menacing enemy to light.
Lara has just turned 60; it’s a very special day that will culminate in a career-defining piano concert given by her son. Viktor remains elusive, however, and his mother’s repeated attempts to get through to him come to nothing.
