Stuckmann and co-writer Sam Liz keep it all under tight control, even when the imagery suggests chaos or excess.
A woman's desperate search for her long-lost sister falls into obsession upon realising that the imaginary demon from their childhood may have been real.
The sunshine of southern Spain, the often deep colours of sherry and the dusty environs of cool cellars with light shafting through them all lend atmosphere to José Luis López-Linares' documentary
If you've lived on the edge this is a world you'll recognise and yet Sherman captures that beauty that's almost impossible to see again from the outside, after sobering up.
A group of Japanese sex workers are stalked by a serial killer while their bosses try to resolve conflicts of their own.
Director Siobhan McCarthy is adept at using the long-established visual language of the high school movie both to entertain and to show us the world from a perspective that’s relatively new to cinema.
Just before graduation, Alex and Ethan pretend to be trans to get into the girl's lockers. It's all a joke until Ethan realises that for her, it's true. The two must reckon with their changing friendship and the process of coming out.
Tusty wants to celebrate these women, something that we really don’t see enough of elsewhere.
A documentary following the struggles of three resilient women determined to battle poverty by establishing and sustaining local businesses, thereby empowering their communities.
A masterpiece of horror cinema, it features a bleak atmosphere, striking visuals, frenzied performances, and an utterly unshakable, creeping sense of dread.
After moving his family to a remote hotel with a troubled past, a writer gradually loses his mind.
What the film does well is to quickly set aside the simple conflict stemming from Matthias' prejudice and make room for other kinds of character development.
When a champion Olympic swimmer utters a homophobic slur on national television, he is forced to become the reluctant coach of the Shiny Shrimps, a flamboyant and outrageous water polo team in training for the Gay Games in Croatia.
With brightly coloured costumes, high speed motorbikes and a fondness for mid-air combat, the film has a very distinctive style and never lets self-consciousness get in its way.
Hongo Takeshi awakens to discover he has been transformed into a grasshopper-hybrid cyborg. Becoming the Masked Rider, he must fight the mysterious evil organisation Shocker to protect all of mankind.
Before, it often felt as though Decker was drifting off onto self-indulgent tangents but her latest feels much more under control, with those tangents are a fully fledged part of the portrait.
A young couple moves in with the famed author, Shirley Jackson, and her Bennington College professor husband, Stanley Hyman, in the hope of starting a new life but instead find themselves fodder for a psycho-drama that inspires Shirley's next novel.
With a set-up and title like this, it's obvious from the outset that Yau isn't going to let the emergency services wrap things up neatly and go home for a nice cup of tea.
An explosives expert has to overcome a series of challenges in order to save the lives of hundreds of people trapped in a tunnel by a crazed bomber with a personal grudge.
There are complex questions here about morality and identity, but mostly it’s just action and explosions. This is fine.
Let go from the bomb squad due to disability, Poon wakes up in hospital with amnesia and is forced to go on the run as terrorist bombers threaten to destroy Hong Kong International Airport.
Shook is a film which hinges heavily on twists and turns and sometimes gets lost in its own cleverness, too busy trying to surprise its audience to explore the richer narrative options open to it.
A social media star finds herself at the centre of a terrifying game.
A great showcase for the famous Lubitsch touch - mixing smart and sometimes cutting observations about people in their personal and professional lives with sweetly sentimental comedy and romance.
Romance blooms between two quarrelsome colleagues who are unaware they are penpals.
The slow-burning Arkansas vista is beautiful and harrowing at the same time, a panorama interrupted only by tractors dotting the horizon, but one where a car parked in the wrong place can attract a mob of pitch fork bearing men.
Stunningly shot, with what is probably the most striking cinematography of the year.
Two years ago, William Langston made a mistake that would affect the course of his life. Now, with a killer loose in his home town and his circle of friends falling away one at a time, William faces his greatest fears as well as his own mortality.
In the end, The Show bites off more than it can chew, but it makes a good effort and there’s plenty there to please the fans.
A man's search for a stolen artefact leads him to the haunted town filled with Voodoo gangsters, masked adventurers, Depression-era private eyes and violent chiaroscuro women.
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