Rithy Panh’s master stroke brings together S.21 survivors (two of the existing three) and former guards and torturers. He encourages them to talk. To find answers.
A look inside the S21 prison at the heart of the Cambodian genocide.
A thoughtful depiction of how human rights violations can create a ripple effect of emotional scars, both in the victims and the people trying to help them.
With just a mobile phone and a gun, Mahmud, Ziyad and their group risk their lives trying to save Yazidi women and girls being held by ISIS as Sabaya (abducted sex slaves) in the most dangerous camp in the Middle East, Al-Hol in Syria.
The complex interaction of desire and disgust is expressed through the textures of indulgent, luxurious foods juxtaposed with similarly textured body parts in a way that is both sensual and grotesque.
A lovelorn medical student is terrorised by a hungry ghost after taking part in an obscure weight loss craze: eating human ashes.
Sacrifice builds with a slow, gentle rhythm, like the waves rolling up against the shore.
After the death of his mother, Isaac and his pregnant wife Emma return to the remote Norwegian island of his birth to deal with an unexpected inheritance.
Wexler makes a number of interesting directorial choices.
The story of Samantha and Clara, two students who are staying behind for the holidays at their boarding school, who must survive the night against uninvited visitors.
It’s all a bit of a disappointment after a strong opening.
Four lifelong friends head to a remote lodge for a weekend of fun, only to find themselves having to fight for their lives when a local cult offers them up to a goddess as a sacrifice for the Solstice.
Ikeda is a strong lead who invests heavily in her character but her most remarkable feature is a pair of eyes which allow her to express terror with the intensity of an animé character.
A group of people must find out how to stop the newborn deadly curse, which has born and gone viral after a Youtuber accidentally captured a vengeful ghost on camera.
The sheer quantity of imitable violence in the film is likely to frighten censors around the world.
After a year of combating a pandemic with relatively benign symptoms, a frustrated nation finally lets its guard down. This is when the virus spontaneously mutates, giving rise to a mind-altering plague. The streets erupt into violence and depravity.
There are some brilliant slapstick sequences and there’s also great character work which emphasises that, for truly skilled actors, spoken dialogue is far from a necessity.
A boy from Big Bend moves to the city to try to make his fortune and ends up resorting to desperate measures to convince his sweetheart that he's a success.
The role of Frost, enigmatic, dangerous, with added unfathomable moral compass, is something Washington excels at and can do in his sleep, but he's played that card perhaps too many times for it to seem fresh.
When a safe house is attacked, a young agent finds himself on the run with the man who was hiding there.
It’s a busy story but it flows smoothly in the hands of director Mitzi Peirone, who uses the visual language of nostalgic coming-of-age movies to tell the main part of the tale, intermittently veering off into much more experimental techniques.
The story of a Catholic student, animal lover and devout vegan who is also a sociopath with dissociative identity disorder, and a serial killer.
As the sunny days pass and Bridget finds herself sinking into the job of caring for Frances more than she imagined, the warmth trickles into the corners of the film leaving cynicism no place to lurk.
After an accidental pregnancy turned abortion, a deadbeat nanny finds an unlikely friendship with the six-year old she's charged with protecting
A novelist who attends the trial of Laurence Coly at the Saint-Omer Criminal Court tries to use her story to write a modern-day adaptation of the ancient myth of Medea, but things don't go as expected.
Its unreliable geographies, human and physical, make it even more beguiling.
Struggling to fit in at Oxford University, Oliver Quick finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catton, who invites him to Saltburn, his eccentric family’s sprawling estate, for a summer never to be forgotten.
While attempting to describe the crux of Samsara is, essentially, as impossible as catching lightning in a jar, join me on a journey of imagination and we’ll give it a go.
Samsara is the Buddhist cycle of death and reincarnation. From the temples of Laos, alongside with teenage monks, we will accompany a soul in its transit from one body to another through the bardo.
Two things elevate it. One is Yasuda’s commitment to looking in depth at the culture of the Edo period, rather than just cribbing from past jidaigeki and trying to distract us with swordplay. The other is seasoned jidaigeki actor Yamaguchi’s wonderfully sensitive and sincere performance.
A samurai who gets hit by lightning wakes up to find himself on a film set in the present day and starts to work as an extra on samurai films.
This is a documentary full of natural comedy and warmth, but it's also interesting as a take on the filmmaking process.
Two teenagers with Down Syndrome escape their social isolation by convincing the entire state of Rhode Island to help them make a rather questionable zombie movie.
The real difficulty that de Young and Wellink face lies in getting beyond the public persona to show us the private man.
The irresistible rags-to-riches story, profusely illustrated with clips from his finest films, of one of Hollywood's most iconic cigar-chomping tycoons.
There’s an inherent sadness to this, not least because this film is taking a much more sobering sweep than more frequently made films about jail time, which tend to end with exoneration or freedom, which Reyes notes from the start is not within this documentary’s gift.
Documentary tracing a young immigrant’s path from coastal Mexico to a life sentence for murder in California.
Santa Sangre is suffused with rare heart and a sense of aching melancholy, and not a minute of its two hour run time is wasted.
Upon leaving a psychiatric hospital, a young man becomes the arms of his mother, whose own were cut off by his philandering father, as she embarks on a campaign of holy retribution.
Writer/director Sandhya Suri - who has a documentary background - is keen to show that everyone plays their part in the prejudices and corruption of the legal system.
Newly widowed Santosh inherits her husband’s job as a police constable in the rural badlands of Northern India. When a low caste girl is found raped and murdered, she is pulled into the investigation under the wing of charismatic feminist inspector Sharma.
Relatively few musicians get to feature in this kind of film whilst they’re still alive, and Golden’s interest in cultural history benefits significantly from having Santos himself participate.
A documentary about the life of one of the world's foremost exponents of Afro-Latin music, community activist and seven-time Grammy nominee, John Santos.
David and Craig Zellner aren’t just here to make us laugh - although they certainly achieve that - they’re also in the business of building a detailed and delicate world around a year in the life of their creatures that proves surprisingly poignant.
Although multiple directors were involved, it maintains impressive consistency in both style and tone, each of them adding their own quirks and flourishes without anything jarring.
Satanic Panic is one of those films that's a lot smarter underneath than it looks on the surface.
A pizza delivery girl at the end of her financial rope has to fight for her life - and her tips - when her last order of the night turns out to be high society Satanists in need of a virgin sacrifice.
It's told from Adam's point of view, largely because he's younger and in better shape to tell a coherent story at the end of it all, but it's really Mr Satan's film.
A documentary about two men with very different backgrounds united through music.
A film which is forensic in its approach yet also finds room for fascinating explorations of character.
The story of how the Satanic Panic of the 1980s was ignited by Michelle Remembers, a lurid memoir by psychiatrist Larry Pazder and his patient Michelle Smith.
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