Tom Hanks is trying to channel his inner Clint Eastwood for this US adaptation of Fredrik Bachman’s Swedish best-seller - the problem is, he simply isn’t grouchy enough.
Otto is a grump who's given up on life following the loss of his wife and wants to end it all. When a young family moves in nearby, he meets his match in quick-witted Marisol, leading to a friendship that will turn his world around.
The streets of London are dark and grimy, full of shadows.
Two young thugs rob a bookie leaving a dog-racing track with his winnings, but when they grab his case full of money they discover that he has chained it to his wrist.
Part romance, part observational comedy, Man Proposes, God Disposes also has a keen sense of the loneliness that being lost in a strange country can bring.
A petty criminal moves from Gdansk to São Paulo to try and do the right thing after he learns that a woman he barely knows is pregnant as a result of their one night stand.
Everything is beautifully realised on screen and there are some simply stunning set pieces.
In the 1970s Korea is under the absolute control of its president, Park, who controls the KCIA the organization with the edge over any branch of government.
Given that one of the central tenets of Ben Hania's latest film is a debate about form... it's a joy that this extends to almost every frame of the film, many of which are so carefully composed they could hang in a gallery themselves.
Sam Ali, a young sensitive and impulsive Syrian, left his country for Lebanon to escape the war. He finds himself turned into a work of art by a tattoo artist...but at what cost.
Blending detective work with moments of tenderness and humour, the film repeatedly upends its own narrative, and there are always more surprises round the corner.
He goes by the names of Alexandre, Ricardo or Daniel. He calls himself a surgeon or an engineer, Argentinean or Brazilian. He lives with four women at the same time, adapting his story and even his personality traits to each one. A first-person investigation with the help of a private detective on a fraud with a thousand faces.
Sinatra is committed to this role and succeeds in exploiting Frankie's vulnerability, without resorting to sentimental tricks, or audience grabbing histrionics.
Groundbreaking movie about a
drug-addled poker player.
One of the most impressive films of the year to date.
A young Māori woman travels to Victorian England after receiving a letter promising information about her birth parents. As she peels back the layers of colonial deceit, she is driven to avenge her shattered ancestry.
Marcel, a one-inch-tall shell, lives a miniature life with his grandma Connie and their pet lint, Alan. When the trio goes viral, they get millions of fans and new hope for finding their long-lost family.
Rivers' dreamlike approach has the quality of memory in places, full of figments and fragments, although that inevitably means some episodes are more engaging than others.
Divorced by many years from the context of its original conception, the film might easily be viewed as just another rites-of-passage indie – albeit an unusually multi-faceted one.
A young woman find herself embroiled in the blame game after a bus accident.
More than anything, the film rests on Dyrholm’s performance, and she does not disappoint.
When a man arrives at her court claiming to be the son she thought long dead, Queen Margrete fears that her life's work, the Kalmar Union and the peace it has brought to warring states, could be in peril.
It is gorgeous, both to look at and to listen to. It's perhaps Larrain's most accessible film, though that's as much to do with its star as its subject.
Dramatisation of the life of the opera singer Maria Callas.
There's a genuine beauty here - this is as much a love letter to love as it is the story of a complicated relationship and the branches (Broomfield included) that sprang from it.
A story of enduring love between Leonard Cohen and his Norwegian muse Marianne Ihlen. The film follows their relationship from the early days in Greece, a time of ‘free love’ and open marriage, to how their love evolved when Leonard became a successful musician.
Credit to the actor-turned-director for thinking big with his first directorial project but in pursuit of the bigger picture, quite a lot of the smaller intricacies are lost.
Biopic of Marxist Brazilian writer, politician and guerilla fighter Carlos Marighella.
The narrative depth also accrues gently, like sedimentary layers, as the film progresses, looking deceptively slight at first but gradually building into something more profound.
A family buy a hologram to help their matriarch, who is losing her memory.
With its light touch, candid camera approach, this documentary gets under the skin of the issue.
A documentary about a midwestern trans woman who struggles with the prospect of de-transitioning under the pressures of her fundamentalist church, family and community.
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