The incredible, against-all-odds story of sailor Tracy Edwards, who skippered the first all-female international crew in the 1989 Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race.
The star himself commands an uncharacteristic stillness, dialling down his famous charisma, surrendering himself to the material.
In 1950s Paris, the body of a young woman is found dressed in an evening gown and holding no I.D. When nobody claims the body, Detective Jules Maigret is brought onto the case.
Many of the scenes are fairly explicit, but as the film sets out to observe, rather than make judgements, nothing feels shocking, salacious, pornographic or disturbing.
It’s not particularly dramatic and it doesn’t deal in miracles, but it’s a deeply engaging and enjoyable piece of work.
Scots teenager Ethan Walker as he defies life-threatening injuries to cycle from Glasgow’s Hampden Park to Munich Football Arena for Scotland’s opening Euro24 match.
The Mino brothers are at their best in the film's smaller moments, the early domesticity of a family celebration or a shared piece of good fortune with co-workers handled with a welcome naturalism.
After a man kills to protect his mother and sister he finds it hard to achieve social rehabilitation in a society that has labelled him a murderer.
We make allowances for the lack of conversational padding in theatre but in the more naturalistic setting of cinema some of this is too hard and fast - especially in the final third.
A triptych of conflict in the shadow of different wars.
The shark scenes may not be as dramatic or explicit as those in Jaws, but they feature far more real shark action.
A Vietnam veteran with a psychic connection to sharks discovers their exploitation by the local aquarium and begins an underwater reign of terror to avenge them.
Although this is set in the Nineties, the gritty feel makes it redolent of Seventies-set thrillers, a mood reinforced by the way that du Welz embeds us in Paul’s life from the start.
Two girls vanish. Police recruit Paul Chartier joins a covert unit tracking a sex offender. After the operation falters, Chartier pursues the perpetrators independently, disillusioned with legal constraints.
Director Fabian Hernández, making his feature début, demonstrates a fondness for close-ups and keeps the narrative close to Carlos as well.
Carlos lives in a youth shelter in Bogota. Its Christmas and Carlos longs to spend the day with his mother and sister, who are lost in the spiral of urban violence. As he leaves the shelter, Carlos is confronted with the rigor of the streets in his neighborhood, where the law of the strongest, the alpha 'macho', rules. As he seeks for a family reunion, Carlos must show he can be one of them.
Freire captures not just the emotional but physical force of these relationships, with the women coming to blows, their acts of cruelty to one another as powerful as their acts of love.
Malu - a mercurial, unemployed actress living with her conservative mother in a precarious house in a Rio de Janeiro slum - tries to deal with her strained relationship with her own adult daughter while surviving on memories of her glorious artistic past.
Sinai portrays the situations one might find quite common and “close to home” with precision and emotional clarity.
After many years working far from home, Mila is forced to temporarily leave her seaside mansion - and her secret romance - to return to her family in a remote Polish village. But the long-awaited reunion is far from what she imagined.
Kyi has a sharp eye for the little details of people’s homes and unconscious behaviours which enrich our understanding of who they are.
A documentary about two conservative, Christian mothers who have become fierce advocates for LGBTQ+ people—and a young lesbian whose struggle for self-acceptance exemplifies why the mama bears are so important.
Using very simple props, Obasi constructs a whole world in this small coastal location.
When the harmony in a village is threatened by outside elements, two sisters must fight to save their people and restore the glory of a mermaid goddess to the land.
There are so many great stories surrounding Cliff that it’s clear director Jake West was spoilt for choice.
Polymath Twemlow was a nightclub bouncer, novelist, composer, singer, screenwriter, producer and actor, who for a decade was the most prolific indie filmmaker in the UK! Witness how this 20th century Renaissance man created his own innovative micro-film industry in Manchester.
The film doesn’t leave much room for hope, but it does present viewers with a shifting moral landscape in which motivations are tricky to pin down.
Probation officer Cathy Madden is given the task of rehabilitating notorious killer ‘Bloody’ Mary Laidlaw back into society after 20 years in prison. Cathy has always believed that every client deserves a shot at redemption, but her beliefs are firmly tested when two children disappear near Mary’s farm.
The film only lives up to about 80% of the promise whereas I wanted 150%.
Pacific Northwest. 1983. Outsiders Red Miller and Mandy Bloom lead a loving and peaceful existence. When their haven is savagely destroyed by a cult, Red is catapulted into a phantasmagoric journey filled with bloody vengeance.
The ease with which McQueen shifts the tone from very serious argument to light-hearted banter is sterling.
The true story of the Mangrove Nine, the group of black activists who clashed with London police during a protest march in 1970 and their highly publicised trial that followed.
Allen's finest screenplay to date, filled with expostulating characters with relationship difficulties and hilarious interludes about the human condition.
Woody Allen falls for his best friend's mistress, but is he really more in love with New York
itself?
This is a film that lets words sizzle more than anything.
1930s Hollywood is re-evaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane for Orson Welles.
Where the film gets interesting is in its exploration of the act, of the way Mansfield turned her life into a performance.
A documentary about the final years of movie goddess Jayne Mansfield's life and untimely death. Was that ill-fated car crash really caused by a curse after her alleged romantic dalliance with Anton LaVey, head of the Church of Satan?
The film remains mysterious without being confusing - you don't need to grasp every detail to understand its metaphors and message and its enigmatic aura invites repeat viewings.
A fisherman finds an injured refugee and tries to help him.
If you just want to see giant mechs fighting each other, the film delivers well enough.
A story inspired by the original Ramayana, retold in a futuristic universe, involving brave warriors who possess ancient powers from another dimension.
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