George Clooney and Brad Pitt trade barbs and snide comments, in this entertaining comedy thriller - from the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]
In a career-defining performance, Fernanda Torres (with a helping hand from her mum) establishes Walter Salles's latest film as the ultimate Brazilian dictatorship drama - from the the Official Competition of the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]
Italian filmmaker and French street artist join forces in order to create an exuberant short film blending urban textures and techniques - from the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]
Jew-hating supremacist is the focus of this trivial American bang-bang with disingenuous political undertones - from the Official Competition of the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]
WW1 drama about self-harmers and the Spanish flu is so clumsily staged that it's barely watchable - from the Official Competition of the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]
Feuding teens see their paths collide more than once, in this very long and (mostly) accomplished French drama - from the Official Competition of the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]
The vicissitudes of love unite, excite and haunt three female friends, in this simple and effective, Truffaut-esque drama- from the Official Competition of the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]
Mother of three boys is hellbent on having a daughter, in this profound real-life drama from Italy - in the Orizzonti Extra section of the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]
Nicole Kidman gets on all fours and drinks milk from a saucer, in Hollywood's latest, extremely lame attempt to normalise subversive female pleasures - from the Official Competition of the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]
John Lennon and Yoko Ono become American conveyors of change during the early 1970s, in this superbly assembled documentary - the 81st edition of the Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]
Fly-on-the-wall documentary captures the pro-democracy-fervour in post-revolution Sudan, as well as the violence and the delusion that ensued - from the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]
Junky jockey watches his life crumble after a freak accident takes him off horse racing - wacky Argentinian comedy is in the Official Competition of the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]
Angelina Jolie and Maria Callas engage in a fierce battle for the spotlight, in Pablo Larrain's uneven biopic of the tragic diva - from the Official Competition of the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]
Errol Morris's doc about Trump's family separation policy focuses on the self-proclaimed saviours, while never hearing the countless victims - from the 81st edition of the Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]
Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder star in Tim Burton's colourful and disjointed sequel to 1988's Beetlejuice, which is in cinemas on Friday, September 6th [Read More...]
Three missing people make a mysterious return, in Tunisian drama glimmering of horror and religious undertones - from the Official Competition of the 77th Locarno Film Festival [Read More...]
Pervy millionaire (Channing Tatum) lures young women into his sun-soaked, drug-fuelled Mexican villa, and subjects them to horrors a la Ari Aster and Jordan Peele - in cinemas on Friday, August 23rd [Read More...]
Swiss director follows a band of refugees as they travel across remnants of the Bosnian War, the stunning backdrop offering some strange healing - from the 77th Locarno Film Festival [Read More...]
Big city pushes young man battling severe mental health issues further into the abysm, in this tremendous Turkish drama - in the Official Competition of the 77th Locarno Film Festival [Read More...]
Two girls aching for a world beyond their town take to modelling, in this Lithuanian feature about adolescence - in the Official Competition of the 77th Locarno Film Festival [Read More...]
The director of extraordinary religion drama Apostasy returns with a completely different film: an English folk horror that's visually exuberant and yet fails to engage and scare - in cinemas on Friday, September 6th [Read More...]
Fida Bizri explores the battles that devastated Lebanon, deciding that no ideology is worth the bloodshed that comes with it - in the Official Competition of the 77th Locarno Film Festival [Read More...]
Ordinary people behave badly, in this collection of mostly cold and banal short stories - British indie is in the Concorso Cineasti del Presente of the 77th Locarno Film Festival [Read More...]
Tinto Brass's scandalous historical drama gets a major overhaul, removing the porny bits and inserting genuine horror into the story - on VoD on August 23rd [Read More...]
In her sophomore feature, Kurdwin Ayub explores the harsh reality of three sisters in Jordan, and the difficult choices their Austrian martial arts trainer has to make - from the Official Competition of the 77th Locarno Film Festival [Read More...]
Three disparate figures congregate at a stunning Monaco house for Christmas; they discuss lifestyle choices, prostitution, 17th century kittens, and much more - from the Official Competition of the 77th Locarno Film Festival [Read More...]
Amnesiac man experiences rebirth by reading his own musings from decades earlier, in a film with some peculiar similarities to Cinema Paradiso - from the Official Competition of the 77th Locarno Film Festival [Read More...]
In this non-linear exploration of grief, two sisters stay true to their bond through good times and bad - Lithuanian drama is in the Official Competition of the 77th Locarno Film Festival [Read More...]
The adopted child of a missionary is tasked with healing a sick woman, in a region divided by Indigenous tradition and illegal logging - from the Official Competition of the 77th Locarno Film Festival [Read More...]
Tato Kotetishvili’s debut feature offers a visual feast and also an intimate introduction to a vibrant and surreal Tbilisi - from the Cineasti del Presente section of the 77th Locarno Film Festival [Read More...]
A woman haunted by her father's death and husband's adultery readies herself for the arrival of her daughter and sister - from the Official Competition of the 77th Locarno Film Festival [Read More...]
Director Ben Rivers returns to Scotland to produce a followup to Two Years at Sea, complete with his favourite hermit - from the Official Competition of the 77th Locarno Film Festival [Read More...]
Three extravagant, non-binary queers struggle to survive a very boring, heteronormative gender reveal party - wacky Canadian short premieres in the 77th Locarno Film Festival [Read More...]
A contract killer finds herself in a world of sleaze and violence, in a movie that fails to hit viewers - from the Official Competiton of the 77th Locarno Film Festival [Read More...]
A lonely Italian is excited by a stranger's voice on the other end of the telephone, in this thoughtful but fragmented feature - from the main Competition of the 77th Locarno Film Festival [Read More...]
The news report of an infanticidal matriarch bewitches a Spanish mother and writer, in this impressive tale of maternal horror (with many a twist) - from the Official Competition of the 77th Locarno Film Festival [Read More...]
South African drama uses LGBT+ aspirations in order to twist religious doctrine, with bloodied consequences - from the 77th edition of Locarno [Read More...]
A bold and brash, older sibling is tasked with breaking up with her sister's beau, only to find a prospective lover for herself - from the LA Shorts International Film Festival [Read More...]
Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman reprise their iconic roles in this expletive-loaded but lightweight comic book bonanza - in cinemas on Thursday, July 25th [Read More...]
Long summer at home tests mother-daughter relationship, in this impressive American drama focused on the unsaid, the insinuated and the minute details - in cinemas on Friday, July 19th [Read More...]
Awkward and bizarre Airbnb interactions offer commentary on forged intimacy, in this micro-budget, sharp American indie - available now on Mubi [Read More...]
Very sad disease kills plantation labourers in Africa, in this extremely sombre allegory of Portuguese colonialism - from the Crystal Globe Competition of the 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival [Read More...]
Big-city woman escapes to the idyllic Himalayas in order to recover from a physical and also from a psychological wound - Indian drama premieres at the 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival [Read More...]
Two young Moroccans experience homosexual love and prostitution, in this delicate tale of oppression and liberation - from the 58th edition of Karlovy Vary [Read More...]
Ultranationalists bust left wing pacifist cell, in the real-life story set in Turkey during the late 1970s - from the Proxima Competition of the 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival [Read More...]
We are invited to view the trials of a family through the eyes of their youngest member - Beata Parkanová’s inventive, thoughtful drama is in the Crystal Globe Competition of the 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival [Read More...]
Painting the painter: Mark Cousins's new doc offers a peculiar glimpse into the life and work of Scottish painter Wilhelmina "Willie" Barns-Graham - Karlovy Vary winner is in cinemas on Friday, October 18th [Read More...]
Japanese housewife descends into madness after husband threatens to end their childless marriage, and comes up with a very bizarre proposition - in the Official Competition of the 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival [Read More...]
Two brothers fence for their dignity, in this strange tale of fraternal loyalty and queer love - in the Official Competition of the 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival [Read More...]
Maria's perfect, happy marriage begins to collapse for no apparent reason, in this this humanistic Norwegian drama - in the Official Competition of the 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival [Read More...]
People find catharsis and oppression within the walls of their hotel room, uuin this mysterious episodic drama from China - at the 58th edition of Karlovy Vary [Read More...]
Thailand is the setting for a journey of reflection, identity, and pain in a deeply emotional documentary - from 58th Karlovy Vary International Film, Festival [Read More...]
