Miskolc International Film Festival — A–Z of films

Khlebnikov and Meschchaninova capture the essence of long-term relationships at the point when the firework bursts of highs and lows have been replaced by the dripping tap of minor annoyances that are becoming harder to ignore.

Howard’s documentary is candid and enlightening.

Saturday Night Live regular Mooney, who has a twinkly mischievousness and comic timing reminiscent of a young Gene Wilder, plays James as naive, but never stupid.

Koolhoven wants all voyeurism of an exploitation flick while still expecting us to take his artistry seriously, and it's an unholy mix.

It is fundamentally a film about the workings of infatuation with a charmed fever that contaminates its characters.

Carpignano is interested in the margins - and the fringes of those margins.

The sense of poise created, as people move through spaces or talk back and forth, objects often leaving the frame in one direction as another enters from the opposite side, achieves a soothing rhythm.

You'll laugh, and wince, and laugh again.

It's pretty torturous stuff.

The Safdies invest their own knowledge of their home turf to give it all a frenetic and authentic sense of urgency.

Debut feature director Francis Lee grew up on a Yorkshire farm and it shows in every inch of this film.

The film’s risks pay dividends dramatically.

Eternal greatness encounters sacrifice and the film dares to musically tackle questions of complicity in evil. Péguy's socialism, patriotism, and Catholicism mix well with the eager young actors. This is unlike any film you have ever seen.

Just when you think you know this story, Oldroyd and Birch begin to show you that you don't.

Quietly builds a testimony to the stoicism all of the 250,000 civilians who, at that time, remained trapped in the city.

The splendour of the artwork is not matched by the tale being told, which is of the paint-by-numbers variety.

Noelle's transformation from mouse to maniac is also hard to swallow, even with Eastwood's hard sell.

In the realm of the insane reason has no place. Anything is possible. Even the impossible

Cedar aims for emotional truth through visceral recognition and he succeeds in feeding our desire to understand what makes humans do the things we do.

Possibly the best musical ever written.

No defense against a life less lived

While satirically entertaining in places it has too many threads competing for attention and ultimately runs out of steam.

Judi Dench has become the living embodiment of fine acting, so much so that it is easy to take her for granted. Don't even think it!

It quite subtly toys with the iconography of the genre - poking at the outlying parts of it, the parts dealing with "foreigness" and "home" rather than the more dependable elements of right and wrong.