Nords gets an excellent performance from Konovalovs - contrasting the enjoyment of the wide open spaces of his home city at night with the stress that waits for him inside his home or school.
Desperate not to disappoint his mother, an introverted boy gets into increasingly difficult situations.
The director Mark Pellington uses infuriating camera tricks - out-of-focus slow motion, etc - and a deeply unsubtle musical score to heighten the suspense.
Richard Gere investigates true
sightings of giant bat-like
man/creature in rural West
Virginia.
It's as though Cuenta and his co-writer Alejandro Hernández spent so much of their energy on their impressive plot machinations that they have none left for developing his character, leaving Gutiérrez trying to work magic with just one note.
A man obsessed with writing a book, starts to manipulate his neighbours.
Martin's approach, which skilfully avoids melodrama and keeps a respectful distance from her subject, is complemented by Guylaine Tremblay's finely nuanced central performance.
A meditative and hypnotic meditation on grief and loss.
Connolly and Raymond capture both the pressure and exhilaration of practice and performance and include plenty of footage of the teenagers simply going about the process of growing up and learning to work together.
The determined Mrs Carey prepares her pupils to deliver the concert of a lifetime at the Sydney Opera House.
The trouble is there’s not that many laughs for a comedy, and the few there are trade on stereotypes.
In 1968, an idealistic schoolteacher moves his family to East Germany in order to experience life in a Communist paradise. But his family, especially his wife, are not so eager.
The concept is halfway interesting, the production so overburdened with explosive devices it might have been made in Iraq and the screenplay is as appetising as damp toast.
Husband and wife assassins find themselves targeting each other.
A bitter yet affectionate comedy that delights in awkward situations, Mr Roosevelt is limited in its ambition but, as a result, gives this new writer/director room to focus on what she knows she can do well.
After a loved one falls ill, struggling comedian Emily Martin returns to her college town of Austin, Texas and must come to terms with her past while staying with her ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend.
A fairly standard fish-out-of-water, culture-clash story, albeit with a mumblecore vibe, that has the unfortunate problem of peaking in the middle before gradually losing steam.
For those who think they know what is going on in this once stable and prosperous country, to be faced with the Campbells’ story is a stark reminder that reading opinion pieces in newspapers is like witnessing a massacre from behind a wall.
Documentary charting a white family's solidarity against the Mugabe regime.
A savage deconstruction of Thatcherite beliefs in family.
Brit horror, sees an airport worker face the perils of a close-knit family. In cinemas and on DVD this Boxing Day. Plus read our exclusive interview with Perry Benson.
Sack the writers, disarm the director and banish the gatecrashers. The Muppets aren't The Muppets anymore
While on a grand world tour, The Muppets find themselves unwittingly involved in an European bank heist caper, headed by a look-alike frog and his dastardly sidekick.
