Rather than trying to establish a thesis of her own, Janisse allows her interviewees to deliver contradictory viewpoints on key issues, and the film is richer for it.
A documentary about the history of folk horror cinema from the 1960s to today.
The biggest difference between the book and the film is that I enjoyed the latter enough to want more.
Levon Cade left his profession behind to work construction and be a good dad to his daughter. But when a local girl vanishes, he's asked to return to the skills that made him a mythic figure in the shadowy world of counter-terrorism.
There's a potency to this film, largely thanks to a carefully judged performance by Marina Foïs as novelist and tutor Olivia, and a charismatic one by Matthieu Lucci as her most difficult student, Antoine.
An exploration of group dynamics in a young people’s writing workshop.
While there are plenty of laughs, the film might be victim of a too-linear, too-literal and too-revealing trailer, and the impact of its funnier moments are dampened by familiarity.
Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from 20 years earlier unwittingly become humankind's only hope for survival.
Overall, the story is a familiar one, with a predictably, one could even say, cliched tragic sweep - a well-trodden pioneer trail that while watchable for the fine performances, still feels overly stuck in a rut.
In upstate New York in the 1850s, Abigail begins a new year on the rural farm where she lives with her husband Dyer. But a friendship with the wife of a new neighbour leads to trouble.
"Mother Nature is a serial killer," someone says, and it doesn't sound cheesy because the action smashes through the walls of scepticism and highjacks your logical mind
A UN employee travels the world trying to find a solution to a zombie pandemic.
With a sometimes poppy, sometimes bluesy score by French band The Limiñanas, which contributes some much needed energy, the film establishes a distinct personality.
After a job goes bad, six armed robbers must spend a single night at a deserted safe house. But during the stay their pasts come back to haunt them and the men find themselves fighting for their lives and their sanity.
Better in its subtler moments, when it explores not just the difference between what is being filmed and reality by the fictions the characters are also inventing for themselves, the film is made compelling by its own immaculate casting.
Film within a film about a group of youngsters who are street cast and how it changes their lives.
There is a lingering, half blossomed melancholy that lies underneath the often very funny, fast-paced moments of quotidian chaos.
Four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is.
By far the most brazen piece of fan service at Fantasia 2020.
When two childhood friends find themselves working in the same office, romance is on the cards, but it's complicated by their various forms of geekery.
Trengove strikes a good balance between showing the cultural importance, even though on the wane, of old-fashioned masculinity and personal drama between Xolani and Kwanda, slowly ratcheting up the tension to breaking point.
Sexual repression and coming of age prove a dangerous mix for a small community.
Unashamedly arty yet still packs an emotional punch.
It’s the perfect plan: A serial killer brings an unsuspecting new victim on a weekend getaway to add another body to his ever-growing count. She’s buying into his faux charms, and he’s eagerly lusting for blood. What could possibly go wrong?
There are moments when things come together and the fierce weather generates a powerful mood.
The North Sea island of Hel is cloaked in mystery, myth and misogyny. Isolated because the local community despise her, Anna is torn between the ghosts of the past and the gods of the present as an ill wind blows through, and young girls vanish.
Worthington is as nebulous a charisma void as ever, sucking all the life out of everyone and everything around him, while Liebesman is reasonably capable with action but proves a total hack when it comes to handling anything remotely resembling drama.
The quest is on to rescue Zeus from the underworld.
The beauty of Wreck-It Ralph is that it makes no difference if you spot any of the references or love videogames, such is the vibrancy of the animation and the humour of the screenplay.
Tired of being a video game bad guy, Ralph sets off through all the games in the arcade where he lives, hoping to make a name for himself.
Rourke brings a staggering amount of emotional weight to the role of Randy.
An ageing wrestler tries to reconnect with his estranged daughter, but can he get the ring out of his soul? Plus read what Aronofsky, Rourke and Tomei said about the film.
The tropes it uses are old ones but simplicity works in their favour, adding to the sense that there are uncanny powers at work and that nothing is quite what it seems.
A defiant teenage boy, struggling with his parent's imminent divorce, faces off with a thousand year-old witch, who is living beneath the skin of and posing as the woman next door.
There's an adequate set-up here for a heist story but what actually unfolds is a series of schemes that seem confused, inconsistent and sometimes altogether unnecessary.
A petty con artist infiltrates the life of an old flame after discovering that she's working at a school patronised by the wealthy.
Writing with Fire deftly infuses hope and inspiration into what could rightfully have been a wholly dire depiction of India’s most trodden-upon population.
In a cluttered news landscape dominated by men, emerges India's only newspaper run by Dalit women. Armed with smartphones, Chief Reporter Meera and her journalists break traditions on the frontlines of India's biggest issues and within the confines of their own homes, redefining what it means to be powerful.
Opening on a dark and stormy night, Hirani makes it clear that she feels no obligation to tread lightly.
Mr Lockwood arrives at remote Wuthering Heights, where Catherine's vengeful ghost haunts the halls and its occupants. Heathcliff is alive and will not give up on her.
It is not just the bare facts that are explored but the personalities of those who were involved. Throughout there are little touches of comic flair.
A documentary series about how the Norwegian government, through a covert operation, managed to smuggle 49 tons of gold out of the country during Nazi Germany's invasion of Norway in April 1940.
Taplitz is a real find, bringing depth to a character who doesn't get much room to express emotion given the film's dry, mannered style.
In a retro-future alternate universe where children wear electronic collars to monitor their sexual development, one boy, Wyrm, has fallen woefully behind.
All this may sound like fun, and it does have its moments, but the ebullience which animated the original is missing.
In a zombie-infested Australian wasteland, soldier Rhys has dedicated his life to tracking and capturing survivors for the Surgeon General in hopes of finding a cure.
