Abstraction is fine - and there is no doubting Lyddon's graphic mastery - but some recurring imagery would make this clever animation a lot more memorable.
An emotionally engaging portrait of the struggles of life on a Native American reservation in Oklahoma
Following her sister's disappearance, a Native American hustler kidnaps her niece from the child's white grandparents and sets out for the state powwow in hopes of keeping what is left of their family intact.
Both stars are excellent; Grenier, who does most of the heavy lifting, transforms over the course of 17 minutes in a way that makes him almost unrecognisable.
Two boys get out of their depth when playing a fun but dangerous game.
There’s something inherently endearing about the way that Nikou always managed to conjure timelessness in his worlds. They’re more analogue than futuristic but ultimately hang in a sort of limbo of ‘here but not quite now’.
A woman who is increasingly unsure about her relationship secretly embarks on a new assignment working at a mysterious institute designed to incite and test the presence of romantic love in increasingly desperate couples.
A semi-retired associate of the Jewish mafia in Los Angeles tries to save his young grandson from a life of crime as three corrupt cops crack down on local criminals
Mungiu’s eye moves between the juggernaut and the barely visible.
Mihai and Lisbet Gheorghiu, a devout Romanian Norwegian couple, move from Romania to Norway with their children to be closer to Lisbet’s family. But tension mounts when one of the children arrives at school with bruises.
In a modern metropolitan city, amidst tall skyscrapers and busy streets, the unexpected sight of a
man flying undisturbed in the sky disrupts the busy coming and going of people.
All this feels realistic enough, but struggles when it comes up against the soft focus sweetness of romcom logic.
After suffering a head injury and waking up with a foreign accent, a Canadian woman is persuaded to pretend that she's Bosnian, but everything becomes more complicated when she falls in love.
There’s good attention to period detail, aided by the fact that many English towns have changed little since the 1940s.
In an alternate 1942, Britain has fallen to Nazi Germany. A group of ordinary British people are captured by a ruthless SS officer who is determined to find a Resistance spy among them. Can they hold out under interrogation or will they crumble?
Isabel-Olsini Edwards' production design might not seem more than bottles and floors but all of them tell a story as heavy with implication as mention of rugby or kerbs.
A South London story in which opposites attract, appearances deceive and bravery reaps rewards.
