The action is nicely choreographed and despite the lengthy running time most of the film is nicely paced, with a number of genre in-jokes to help it hold viewer attention.
When a Japanese gang boss is killed, his only heiress is sent abroad as a baby. 20 years later she discovers her inheritance and unleashes a war against her pursuers.
The performances are powerful and Idris Elba's ability to recreate the feel of the times is impressive.
Gang wars in Kingston in the Seventies are imported into Hackney in the Eighties affecting the life of a Jamaican boy who seeks vengeance for the murder of his brother
If some of the story is predictable that is mainly down to the tight focus of the script from Casale, which means narrative has a tendency to play second fiddle to atmosphere.
A couple join a closed spiritual community as they prepare for the birth of their first child.
What the narrative wants to test is the cost of principled resistance when you have a child to protect
Life is good for Derya and Aziz, a celebrated artist couple from Turkey, until an incident at their play’s premiere. Suddenly targeted by the state and struggling to balance their ideals with life’s necessities, their marriage is pushed to a breaking point.
This is an intense action film that spirals into a veritable orgy of double crosses, ambushes and bloody beat downs during the last third that will re-affirm impressions of Korean cinema as being a masterclass in how to frame exquisite violence.
A man agrees to take on a hit in a bid to pay off his debts.
This is a low budget film but the production design is full of little touches that carry us back to the same nightmarish place.
When her doctor husband order that she be confined for the sake of her mental health, a frustrated writer becomes obsessed by the pattern in her wallpaper.
There are gory deaths. There’s genuinely funny pastiche. There’s also an attempt at affecting character drama.
When a rescue party sets out in search of a vanished exhibition in remote Alaska forest, its members soon realise that something big is on their trail.
Kurosawa's masterful synthesis doesn't stop with the script. He weaves a late Edo period samurai film, in its painstaking historic detail, into modernity.
A mysterious ronin finds his services are popular in a town where two gangs are trying to wipe each other out.
Shawky allows his characters to sit firmly in the driving seat.
A Coptic leper and his orphaned apprentice leave the confines of the leper colony for the first time and embark on a journey across Egypt to search for what is left of their families.
The film keeps us guessing for quite some time, despite delivering a number of unsettling hints
Patrick, a strange and lonely resident, lives in a mobile home at the back of an isolated caravan park. After a violent thunderstorm erupts, a mysterious young woman appears at his door, seeking shelter from the weather. The longer the night wears on and the more the young woman discovers about Patrick, the more difficult she finds it to leave.
The film works as well as it does because of the central pairing of Goussens and De Saeger, whose shared glances and stray touches work on an emotional level.
A 14-year-old boy feels attracted to his new neighbour, Alexander. Soon he realises that he's truly in love for the first time, but interactions with his friends and family bring more questions than answers.
De Paoli uses a bagful of cinematic tricks to make viewers identify with Piet at his worst.
After being rejected by the woman he has a crush on, a young computer scientist tries to ease his pain with sleep medication, with unexpected consequences.
Viewers are likely to go away appreciating Aubrey’s frustrations and perhaps, if they share them, feeling validated, but without the tools to do anything about them.
Popular anonymous blogger Aubrey Gordon spent five years writing about the realities of living as a self-described “very fat person.” Now, she is about to face the public for the very first time.
Uses the conventions of the romcom to explore one woman’s journey to engage with life on her own terms.
After her life falls apart, soft-spoken actress Laura Franco finds her voice again when she meets a terrifying, yet weirdly charming, monster living in her closet.
This is a lovely, joyful film from writer/director Makoto Shinkai that will, alternately, make you smile and have you perched anxiously on the edge of your seat.
Two high school kids who've never met - city boy Taki and country girl Mitsuha - are united through their dreams.
What emerges, despite the magic realist trappings, is a classic Coppola tale; Like Kurtz and Michael Corleone, Dominic is a man alone, haunted by his memories and driven to tragedy by the essence of his character.
A university professor is struck by lightning and finds himself growing younger.
The film is informationally dense; it must have been exhausting to put together, and watching it all at once highlights just what a roller-coaster ride life with YouTube has been.
YouTube has garnered over 2.3 billion users and is worth up to $300 billion dollars. At its center is its algorithm, something that threatens to destroy not only the platform, but the entire internet.
There’s a lot going on here but first time feature director Kate Dolan weaves all her narrative threads together seamlessly.
In a North Dublin housing estate Char's mother goes missing. When she returns, Char is determined to uncover the truth of her disappearance and unearth the dark secrets of her family.
It does its subjects the courtesy of letting them speak for themselves, but this often the equivalent of handing them enough rope.
A filmmaker asks how we make sense of things when we collapse the infinite fidelity of information down into pithy sentences laid over ominous imagery.
A delicate balance is achieved here between telling the girls’ story, exploring the role which Marike’s religion and culture play in her life, and critiquing aspects of the way she is expected to live.
Two teenage girls begin a secret relationship in a strict Jehovah’s Witness community.
Sex itself is mostly not shown, as its the initial connection with Lila and the emotional aftermath that counts.
After Rémi's infidelity, Lila, who loved him more than anything, has a hard time dealing with their break-up. One day, he announces that he will travel alone to Bolivia to soul-search and try to understand his mistakes. There, he lets her know that their love story is not over.
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