Wish feels like one granted, a treat from start to finish.
A young girl named Asha wishes on a star and gets a more direct answer than she bargained for when a trouble-making star comes down from the sky to join her.
Park’s outstanding skill lies in his ability to deliver this such that it ticks the supernatural boxes – impossible speed, agility and strength – yet still feels visceral.
A teenager with unusual powers escapes from an experimental facility and finds refuge with two siblings, but very dangerous people are looking for her.
There’s a surprising amount of craft lurking beneath its cheerfully trashy exterior.
A young woman running from an abusive relationship seeks refuge in the infamous Hannah house; a historic home with an ominous past, where she finds herself trapped within disturbing dreams.
Though seasoned viewers will see these twists coming, Kim deftly shifts the tone if her performance along with them to keep us guessing.
A nefarious agency has been conducting experiments on children. One of them escapes and goes into hiding with an adopted family. Ten years later, she appears on a talent show, where she's spotted by the bad guys and becomes prey for both her peers and a hit squad.
Though the film naturally relies heavily on symbolism, and viewers won’t be surprised to learn that it began life as a play, the performances are fully committed and it has an appropriate degree of emotional heft.
An unhappy woman removes her heart, puts it in a box and sends it to the man she loves.
The film has been made with a specific audience in mind: one whose members rarely see themselves on the big screen.
An intimate look at the journey of members of the Queer, Christian community of colour and their attempts to answer the question: Can you be both Christian and Queer?
A patient, affecting study of human connection in unusual circumstances
When an Amish boy witnesses the murder of an undercover cop, a detective seeks refuge in the community as he tries to protect the child and his mother.
Dano has chosen to use the same flat vocal expression throughout, a technique well suited to satire which might have worked if only the rest of the film had been a bit more lively.
Russia, early 1990s. Amid post-Soviet chaos, a brilliant young man, Vadim Baranov, charts his path. First an artist, then a reality show producer, he becomes the spin doctor to a rising KGB agent: Vladimir Putin.
The seamless, flowing quality of the animation is what will capture older viewers' attention first - and hold it.
Animation set in the Ireland of the Cromwell period, when a young apprentice hunter comes to Ireland to wipe out the last pack... only to discover the magical world of the wolfwalkers.
Shot in a superficially chaotic style which gradually coalesces into something meaningful, Wolf & Dog perfectly captures the haste and ambiguity of teenage life.
A girl begins to question the world around her through her friendship with her gay best friend.
This as an enchanting film and perfect for family viewing.
After falling in love with a werewolf she meets at university, a young woman is left alone to raise two half-wolf children who must be hidden from prying eyes.
There's little new under the sun, and even less by moonlight.
A family at a remote farmhouse is attacked by an unseen animal, but as the night stretches on, the father begins to transform into something unrecognisable.
The wolf cam POV shots are a charming if somewhat over-familiar device, accompanied by growling, and this helps to alleviate what is always the biggest difficulty for werewolf films: showing too much of the monster.
Shooting a vampire movie in an old abandoned house should have worked like a dream. However, with the full moon, the nightmare begins. The body count rises as the cast and crew encounter the mansion's resident werewolf.
Director Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet weaves an intricate life for Gabrielle without making it feel like a melodrama
A dedicated surgeon whose private life is under strain because of the demands of her work finds things beginning to shift when a novelist comes to observe her work for a book.
Today it's interesting in large part because of the way it highlights the conceptual gaps in early feminist challenges to Confucian ideas about gender.
A lawyer defends her mother-in-law, who has confessed to murder.
Its the emotional sparring between the women - as fierce as anything on the battle ground - that really holds the attention
A historical epic inspired by the true events that happened in The Kingdom of Dahomey, one of the most powerful states of Africa in the 18th and 19th centuries.
For all its elegance, there's a neediness and an inherent dishonesty about it which continually distract from the development of its central ideas.
A misogynistic photographer discovers for the first time in his life the joys of loving a woman, by helping her in her perceptions of herself with his retouching skills.
There's a certain degree of decompression in its storytelling, and a willingness to jump in time and space, and though the two are strong there's a weird sense that these are the highlights and story beats of a much longer television drama.
An ambitious woman treads a dangerous path as she attempts to crash the corporate boys’ club.
A superb example of art flourishing within constraints.
A burglar is hired by a mysterious woman to steal a box from a house. As he is about to leave, the sudden arrival of guests forces him to hide in the study. The situation takes a turn for the worse when he makes a startling discovery.
Television schedules seem to be crammed with middle-aged men taking train journeys or motorcycle rides, so the first thing that’s notable about Women Behind The Wheel is that it brings with it the freshness of a much younger demographic in addition to its female perspective.
The directors become the first women to drive the entirety of Central Asia’s Pamir Highway.
Bakalova, who will be familiar to many English-speaking viewers from her multi-award winning turn in Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, shows great depth here in a performance which is equally deserving of notice.
A family full of women in a society where 'gender' is not a familiar word.
Russell takes a full-tilt approach to bringing DH Lawrence’s novel alive on screen in all its earthy, sensual – and often ludicrously overblown – glory.
Two sisters in a mining town in the 1920s fall in love with two contrasting men.
Pugh's performance, which dovetails nicely with newcomer Cassidy’s devout determination as Anna, can’t quite overcome the uneven plotting and, at times, flimsy characterisation.
The Irish Midlands, 1862. A young girl stops eating but remains miraculously alive and well. English nurse Lib Wright is brought to a tiny village to observe eleven-year old Anna O'Donnell. Tourists and pilgrims mass to witness the girl who is said to have survived without food for months.
Having identified [the] problem, the film is primarily concerned with what can be done about it.
This documentary explores the challenges and aspirations of LGBTQ+ Catholics and, more broadly, the hurdles that religious doctrine presents to full acceptance of LGBTQ+ people everywhere.
Stylistically the film is a bit of a mess, frontloading with all sorts of showy technique but then settling down into a more talky, actor-dominated approach.
The true story of the 1981 Wonderland murders, exploring the role of porn star John Holmes.
The central characters, so often a weak point in superhero movies, are well developed with solid performances all round. Gadot, meanwhile, goes above and beyond.
Wonder Woman has to learn some difficult personal lessons as she faces off against Max Lord and the Cheetah with the fate of the world at stake.
Sweet, light, funny and perhaps most merrily, musical.
With dreams of opening a shop in a city renowned for its chocolate, a young and poor Willy Wonka discovers that the industry is run by a cartel of greedy chocolatiers.
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