As the film progresses, its identity crisis becomes increasingly evident as standard indie tropes are interrupted by cackhanded attempts and comedy of the broadest type.
A misfit is brought in to coach his local girl's high school basketball team.
An unrelenting, yet utterly mesmerising cinematic vision.
An unflinching Ozark Mountain girl hacks through dangerous social terrain as she hunts down her drug-dealing father while trying to keep her family intact.
Everything about McCarthy's film feels easygoing and economical. His scripting is sharp and laugh-out-loud funny, with relationships and family dynamics establilshed quickly in an unfussy fashion.
A small-town solicitor finds a way to make ends meet by becoming the guardian of an Alzheimer's sufferer, but trouble brews when his grandson arrives...
Eggers draws fully on the iconography of the period, the muted greys and greens of the landscape captured by cinematographer Jarin Blaschkee broken only by repeated flashes of cardinal red, bringing with it the suggestion of cardinal sin.
A family of New England settlers find their faith tested when their son disappears... possibly snatched by something evil in the woods.
Drawing pathos from an audience for what is an inescapable plight for the family, there is little to do but feel for the young girl whose precociousness and indomitable spirit keep things watchable
South Korean family drama about an economically impoverished family and their difficulties with one another.
While having so little money may, paradoxically, have liberated Bakshi from studio interference, this freedom allows him to indulge in ideas that are, metaphorically and otherwise, away with the fairies.
A post-Apocalyptic Earth is the setting for wizard warfare.
The Wizard Of Oz has something fresh and intangibly pure for me every time I see it.
Swept away to a magical land, young Dorothy sets out to find the wizard who can help her get home, meeting some unusual friends along the way. Out on IMAX reissue.
Heavy on exposition and weighed down further by a voiceover that would make Harrison Ford weep, the film never quite achieves the energy needed to make this kind of thing fun.
Bold in origin, captivating in delivery and resonant across the eras, Woman in a Dressing Gown may now rightfully assume its position as a watershed entry into the canon of British cinema.
A middle-aged woman is shocked to discover that her husband, who seemed content in their marriage, is infatuated with a younger woman and plans to leave his family for her.
Elegantly put together and watchable throughout, but falling short of the potential offered by this fascinating case, Woman In Gold has the shiny appeal of Klimt's work but none of the depth.
A Jewish refugee takees on the government to recover artwork she believes was stolen from her family.
There's half of a good film here, but Pawlikowski approaches his material in a way that undermines the rationale and our perception of the film's third act.
While in Paris an academic meets a woman who may be involved in a series of mysterious murders.
A Woman In Winter is about obsession. Occasionally, when clarity breaks through, you can feel the power of possession and how illusion fades like the mist.
Intense romance between a shy scientist and an ethereal French girl in Edinburgh.
Within this genre, I'm sure Woman With Red Hair is a stunning achievement, but as an exploration of human relations, it is uninteresting, plodding and deeply unpleasant.
A casual pick-up leads to an abusive affair between a construction worker and a redheaded woman.
What makes this more interesting than the average little-guy-against-the-system drama is that it's also a compellng character study.
A hard-pressed single mother is grateful to be promoted by the supermarket she works for, but grows angry when she realises how ruthlessly it is treating its workers.
Auggie has a facial deformity which means he looks odd and people stare and kids are cruel. He comes from a loving home. Will that help in the real world?
