Meester is a strong lead...giving the film some much needed emotional force without oversimplifying it.
A pair of siblings who love but distrust each other embark on a white water rafting trip with a small group. One of their friends from childhood turns out to be more dangerous than anticipated.
The action also feels under-powered in places, with set pieces mainly reminding you of other, more accomplished Wallace & Gromit outings, while you long for a bit more of the Gruffalo's heart.
A robin is adopted by a family of mice but finds she's not very good at sneaking.
A man gets his DNA test results in and is surprised to find a mysterious West African wood mask included in the box. One that give him nightmarish visions of his ancestors’ slave dungeon whenever worn.
Sonia Ladida Schiavone's film, with Rosario Cammarot's cinematography, has the sense of something born of the stage, but transformed by cinema.
Kolbeinn and his friends are young boxers from Iceland and they are training for the Nordic Championship. A serious accident risks copromising their future.
Following a catastrophe on Earth, the planet is covered in a toxic fog. The crew in the space station, must decide whether to risk their lives to get home and search for survivors, or stay safe in the station's algae symbiosis system.
Sandro Baidarashvili's role is a strong one, the awkwardness of adolescence, look and glance and differing diffidence.
Ten-year-old Gigi lives with his family in the back of a small Georgian café that they own and run in a Moscow suburb. Gigi’s life takes a drastic turn when his father is pressured into sheltering a stranger who turns out to be a criminal on the run.
The texture of the images has that roughness which suggests something raw, immediate and real, yet the very deliberate framing contradicts that impression. Many viewers will read it as dreamlike.
A strange woman as she travels to a secluded, rural town where her violent compulsions are slowly revealed.
The inky quality suits the mood, which is less a celebration of the night, than a look at its edgier side, with the paint acting like an encroaching darkness creeping through the frames, forming impressions of moments before the images are once again cons
A journey through the dark side of a city at night.
Rule Of Thumb is very well edited, ensuring that it feels punchy and energetic, keeping a sense of momentum rather than slowing down in tandem with its hero's decline.
A young gay man struggles with an eating disorder.
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