Rodrigues's trilogy is a visual feast of posturing machismo, during which all sense and sensibility is discarded in favour of slow-motion stunts and death from a thousand angles.
Robert Rodrigues continues the saga of El Mariachi with even more bloodshed.
Shows a maturity that embraces every aspect of what commitment and family means and why those sentimental things that blokes feel uncomfortable with have a purpose and a reason.
Rhys Ifans and Robert Carlyle tussle for the affections of Shirley Henderson.
The overall, very sad message of the film is that here is a nation of people freed from the gruelling work patterns of the past, but who now find themselves trapped in dull, monotonous and soul-destroying jobs.
An exploration of the social and political landscape of modern China.
The One is a movie which really knows what it's about; but which, sadly, is about all of it within the first ten minutes, at least as far as the plot is concerned.
Jet Li doubles as L.A. cop and intergalactic bad guy in sci-fi martial arts fantasy
As an adaptation of Pushkin's narrative poem, Michael Ignatieff and Peter Ettedgui have delivered a modern screenplay that rips through convention to the pulsing heart of a country girl's passion for a sophisticated urban aristocrat.
Lavish version of Pushkin's poem about a jaded St Petersburg aristocrat.
Through a series of episodes, set in locations ranging from a skin-treatment clinic to a fortune-teller’s salon to a prison visiting room, a narrative of love, loss and renewal unfolds, centering on a beautiful woman who has been disfigured in an accident.
While exposing fatal flaws in police handling of the incident, MacDonald is less interested in beating them over the head with hard facts than in remembering the human story and making a film that retains constant tension.
Documentary about the terror attack during the 1972 Munich Olympics.
But while this documentary may be as carefully constructed as the band, no amount of stage management can stop genuine emotions seeping through, and you're likely to find your cynicism crumbling in the face of the lads' sheer energy and down-to-earth char
Documentary about the X Factor boys who made it big.
Though it might simply be too depressing for the average cinema audience, this is a solid drama that showcases some of the best assets of contemporary Irish filmmaking.
The quiet, unsensational end of civilisation leaves two couples in an increasingly desperate, claustrophobic situation as their supplies dwindle and they are threatened by other survivors.
Palomino is good but there is only so often we can watch her walking the countryside without joining her in yearning for something more tangible and concrete.
A woman embarks on a lonely hunt for her missing sister.
The action sequences are feral and imaginative, every punch hits home and you can almost feel ribs cracking to the beat of the comical Oriental hip-hop soundtrack.
Thai martial arts goes mental with bad actors in cheap clothes.
What is so disarming about Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive is a scarce sense of appreciation - of the vampire couple for each other and the appreciation by both of them for what is great in the world.
A dark and disturbing exploration of war and, darker still, the impact of reporting on war - a textbook illustration of what happens when you look into the abyss.
A journalist's frontline snapshot of the war in Iraq.
Rather than matching his subjects’ plight with a routinely rugged aesthetic, Drexel demonstrates both appreciable tact and a keen eye for the unexpectedly beautiful.
