Image and sound are brilliantly interwoven in the real-life story of architect László Tóth, before the film succumbs to indulgence and hubris - from the Screen International Critics' Choice of the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. [Read More...]
Jason Jacobs and Devon Delmar’s debut feature patiently introduces audiences to the delicate routine of rural South Africans - from the Orizzonti section of the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]
Family differences and serendipities punctuate this "modern" portrait of Iran - artist-turned-filmmaker showcases his debut feature in the Venice Days strand of the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]
Wang Bing's final entry in the trilogy of Chinese workers in the shortest instalment, at a "mere" 153 minutes of observational cinema - from the 68th BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]
Herdsman becomes a hesitant horseback performer for Chinese tourists, in this exquisite arthouse drama from Inner Mongolia - from the 4th Red Sea International Film Festival [Read More...]
Highly conversational Norwegian drama riffs on the tribulations of casual sex and cancer (it just doesn't show much!) - from the Tallinn Black Nights [Read More...]
Sicilian mafioso and cunning politician play cat and mouse, in this prolonged and prosaic psychological thriller - from the Official Competition of the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]
Anger morphs into murderous thoughts, in this quiet and slow character study from Turkey - from the Orizzonti section of the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]
Two desperate parents scramble to find their missing baby girl, on a quest aided by surveillance technology - from the 68th BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]
Takeshi Kitano's completely bonkers slapstick crime thriller from hell gets moody festival audiences lolling - from the the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]
Spectacular piece of slow cinema from Georgia dissects the female body with raw fervour - from the Official Competition of the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]
Italian director sets out to celebrate pornography, but instead legitimises the old prejudices she aimed to denounce - from the Official Competition of the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]
Todd Phillips's sequel to his own 2019 movie is an elegant and profound blend of musical fantasy and courtroom drama, however inferior to its predecessor - in cinemas on Friday, October 4th [Read More...]
Sicilian soldier stirs the relative peace of a large Italian family, in this beautiful yet soporific drama - from the 68th BFI London Film Festival [Read More...]
A widowed father of two sons despairs as his eldest mingles with fascists, in this effective social realist drama set in France - from the the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]
Ukrainian filmmaker reflects on the normalisation of war, in a documentary dotted with haunting snippets of everyday life - from the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]
Farming villagers of Scotland grapple with meddling outsiders, in Athina Rachel Tsangari's rich yet protracted new drama - from the Official Competition of the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]
Luca Guadagnino's adaptation of William Burroughs's early short novel (starring a drug-addicted, randy Daniel Craig) is an anodyne blend of strawberry fantasy and vanilla erotica - in cinemas on Friday, December 13th [Read More...]
Aude Léa Rapin's sci-fi offers a grim representation of a dystopian French state that has emerged into a high-surveillance, low-tolerance society - from the 81st Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]
A lawyer suffering from a bizarre neurological condition embarks on a road trip, but is his journey real or imaginary? French drama premieres in the 81st edition of the Venice International Film Festival [Read More...]
Almodovar's first feature film in English is an amusing and enlightening meditation on cancer and suicide, and a lot less melodramatic than his Spanish movies - Golden Lion winner is in cinemas on Friday, October 25th [Read More...]
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 68th BFI London, and also the 28th Tallinn Black Nights Film Fedstioval [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...]
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 - showing at the 68th BFI London 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 4th Red Sea 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 on VoD on Monday, October 21st [Read More...]
Ukrainian journalist Nataliia Serebriakova interviews her fellow countrywoman, just as she premieres her jarring "mosaic" of a war documentary at the Biennale [Read More...]
