Bradford International Film Festival — A–Z of films

Enigmatic in form, encyclopaedic in scope, and leaving room between its lines for many different readings, Sparrow's 1 encapsulates, much like the book from which it takes its name, the whole of human experience in eccentric, elliptical cross-section.

45365 proves visually delightful and while it may romantically honour the everyday and find beauty in the individual, but it saves a dispiriting, melancholic tone for the whole

No film by Herzog has ever been so defiantly mainstream – and yet at the same time this remains one of the director's craziest, most outlandish affairs.

There is no simple linear narrative. Beetle Queen is more like a poem, combining fragments of experience to show us something much more than the sum of its parts.

The Blacks is observational, not judgemental. It catches your breath.

Though they are archetypes with a predictable assortment of problems at home, the young people in this story all come across as real.

It's a slick and intoxicating vision to say the least.

Much of the plot reads as a barely tempered collection of cliches, but in the hands of writer/director Justin Molotnikov, and McCole's runaway success, becomes a highly effective character study and a well-constructed psychological thriller.

A cool, classic and creative action picture.

Don't read this review... simply go and see it, for if ever there was a film that is best experienced without knowing a single detail, this unforgettable oddity from Greece is the one.

Swayze toned down his abilities as a dancer to play Castle, but still looks riveting.

Where it succeeds is in its blend of dark humour with tragic circumstances.

Director and co-scribe Christian Carion, adapting from Serguei Kostine’s book, smartly distills the global Cold War politicking into Froment and Grigoriev’s tense relationship.

Because it wouldn't be a Chris Morris production unless it made me feel horrendously uncomfortable in some way or other, I laughed a lot, realised with horror what nightmarish events I was laughing at, and then started to laugh at that instead.

Baumbach has now reached a point where he is parodying himself, yet he still doesn't seem to have found his own voice.

Clouzot's vivid imagery is quite sufficient on its own to make this film a must-see.

Allen's finest screenplay to date, filled with expostulating characters with relationship difficulties and hilarious interludes about the human condition.

Modern Love Is Automatic has so much fun stuff going for it I was really willing it to be a better movie.

The 'story' is somewhat simplistic, but the state-of-a-nation snapshot it allows to be revealed is complex and highly emotive.

Unlike many examples of cinema from an earlier generation, Rebel Without A Cause is dynamic edge-of-the-seat viewing many years on.

The difficulty with sustaining intensity for any period of time is that it so easily becomes ridiculous, but there is absolutely nothing in this brutal, at times violent film that will have you laughing.

Filippo Timi is excellent as the young, supremely egotistical Mussolini.

Seamlessly balances the scenes that made the band infamous, with the intimate moments and the atmosphere of an era.

Drew Barrymore's directorial debut blasts in some girls who just want to have fun - and you'll be happy to join them.

A few scenes are likely to genuinely terrify younger viewers, but Wonka would be the first to point out that children ought to be terrified now and then.