For those wanting a straightforward story with identifiable protagonists, Zabriskie Point may seem like a mess. But if you were wanting such simplistic entertainment, why would you go to see a film by Antonioni?
A young dreamer steals a plane and flies it to the desert, but society isn't ready for his vision when he tries to return.
The tale itself doesn't really hold together either logically or emotionally, at least not once we step outside the very particular rules of literary psychodrama.
A young woman begins to uncover dark secrets as she searches for her husband who has disappeared shortly after their wedding night.
The Zero Theorem is a messy mélange of broad pratfalls, challenged idealism, dark satire, and expansive, indeed cosmic allegory - but it also .cannot escape being seen as a kind of Brazil vers. 2.0.
A reclusive computer genius, plagued with existential angst, works on a mysterious project aimed at discovering the meaning of life.
It's a well constructed, well paced, well made film, but it's poised and polished and professional where one might hope for something a bit more ramshackle, a mite more rebellious.
A group of kids rebel against strict rules at their school.
Simply aping horror films of yesteryear, layering on the piles of intestines, and putting self-aware performances on screen, isn’t enough on its own in today’s crowded field of horror parodies.
You know the story: sexy teens head to a secluded lakeside cabin for a weekend of debauched fun, only to be menaced by a mysterious force picking them off one by one. But here, the culprit proves to be a horde of rabid zombie beavers.
These are not so much the high-kicking tough guy lowlifes of Gareth Evans' hit as the offspring of some ITV reality show supplied with guns and lingerie and crack.
Two people try to survive in Taipei as a horde of zombies and a recently arrived SWAT team do battle over a stash of drugs.
With competent actors and a strong, if not particularly original, central idea, Zoom has the chance to do great things, but it all falls rather flat as the need to interweave the three story strands interferes with their natural pacing.
A multi-dimensional interface between a comic book artist, a novelist and a film director.
Although the narrative beats don’t sear with originality, it is clever and has enough nuance and ambiguity to keep folks guessing right up until the finale, with a cast of characters throughout that are a genuine treat.
A little rabbit works hard to prove she can be just as good a police officer as the bigger, fiercer animals on her team.
It's not that Zu Warriors lacks substance, rather its message - 'The new generation must step up to take the place of the old' - and similar obvious, if true, homilies tend to be obscured by the flying swordsmen, pyrotechnics and other FX work.
Pourfaraj is superb in the lead, his Massoud stiff-backed, primly moustached, yet achingly human.
In 1978, the inhabitants of a small village claim there is a demon among them. When sergeant arrests the exorcist, the villagers fear and anger escalates.
This is a very particular film - one where particles of detail crystallise into observation, meaning and import accreting like nacre around grit, producing a pearl, a natural jewel.
A 17th century army officer in Ascuncion, awaits transfer to Buenos Aires.
Musashi is no American action hero. He does not need a kidnapped daughter of murdered wife to justify violence. All he needs is becoming spiritually one with the sword.
An adaptation of Yoshikawa Eiji's biography of Miyamoto Musashi, swordsman and author of the Book Of Five Rings, who fights his way through many opponents while developing his philosophy of swordsmanship.
Not only visually intelligent but ravishingly beautiful.
Trapped by daily routine, a man experiences complete freedom by dreaming himself across the country in a psychedelic Volkswagen with the guiding words of philosopher Alan Watts.
Western documentary regulars may feel as though they are in familiar territory at the start of the film, which begins by focusing on Syria - but soon the violence considered will come a lot closer to home.
Hybrid documentary exploring the use of rape and sexual violence in global conflict.
At just 83 minutes, this is a tight little snapshot that manages to draw in themes from the bigger picture of sociopolitics in Niger without losing its focus.
Portrait of the Kara Kara district of Zinder and the gang members who live there.
Bravo too often steps back from more serious interrogation in favour of more surface thrills as the girls wave their derrieres in the air like they don't care.
A waitress goes on a pole dancing trip to Florida with a new found friend and gets a lot more than she bargained for.
