Swedish hostage drama morphs into confessional car journey, but this potentially gripping story is crippled by a poor script - out now on Netflix [Read More...]
French movie about two siblings on a road trip deftly bridges the barrier between documentary and fiction - from the 48th Toronto International Film Festival [Read More...]
Based on the filmmaker’s own experience as a news agency intern, French drama offers an intimate picture of the daily pressures both driving and afflicting investigative reporters - from the 80th Venice Film Festival [Read More...]
A two-day journey reveals the oppressive nightmare haunting Nepal, in this slow-burn drama blending elements of horror, politics and philosophy – from the 80th Venice Film Festival. [Read More...]
An absent mother leaves her three daughters to fend for themselves, and find solace and joy in each other's company - thoughtful Swedish drama premieres in the 80th Venice Film Festival [Read More...]
Amidst mounting tensions between religious and secular Turks, a teenager finds himself trapped between two worlds - from the 80th Venice Film Festival [Read More...]
Provocative and unabashed German film portrays the sexually intensive relationship between plus-size model and a paraplegic dancer - Best Performance Leopard winner at Locarno [Read More...]
The long-lost, seemingly crude and tasteless home movies of Charles Carson are in reality bursting with tenderness and poetry - dirty British doc is in cinemas on Friday, September 8th [Read More...]
A Turkish lawyer has to contend with a number of moral dilemmas as she defends a vulnerable client, while also grappling with the fate of her vegetative mother - from the 80th Venice Film Festival [Read More...]
A deep-sea diving journey in Malta turns into a nightmare for two young sisters as one of them becomes trapped by a landslide - survival thriller is in cinemas on Friday, August 25th [Read More...]
Italian director captures five Cubans of three different generations as they patiently dwell in a town where "time doesn't exist" - bewitching piece of slow cinema opens Venice Days [Read More...]
Three failed clowns get together in order to forcibly draw some laughter, joy and blood from those who stand on their path - clumsy Irish comedy in cinemas on Friday, September 1st [Read More...]
Viennese men and women engage in a vertiginous battle for love and lust, in this charming and unusual French anthology - in cinemas on Friday, September 8th, as part of the Save Curzon Mayfair campaign [Read More...]
Christian Petzold's new creation is an inventive and profound meditation on the deceitful machinations of the creative mind - now on Curzon Home Cinema [Read More...]
Drug dealer offers comfort, redemption and liberation to some of the most vulnerable people of Tehran - ultra-subversive, scream-out-loud Iranian movie wins the Golden Leopard at the 76th Locarno Film Festival [Read More...]
Bad omens, unrequited love, and the deep-sea mythical rise above the shoreline for a trio of reuniting friends in Nelson Yeo’s surreal Singaporean drama - from the 76th edition of the Locarno Film Festival. [Read More...]
British actor and rapper Riz Ahmed excels as a man grappling with his clashing cultural identities, in French-Algerian director’s bold new film - from the 76th Locarno Film Festival [Read More...]
Other Reviews
La Vedova Nera Italian teen is caught in a fantasy world of murder, sex and cinema, in this Franco-Italian pithy and vibrant tribute to giallo - from the Pardi di Domani section. of the 76th Locarno Film Festival [Read More...]
Remember, Broken Crayons Colour Too Deeply poetic Swiss documentary about Jamaican trans woman excels in inventiveness - from the Pardi di Doman section of the 76th Locarno Film Festival [Read More...]
Obscure Night – Goodbye Here, Anywhere (Nuit obscure – Au Revoir Ici, n’Importe Où) Moroccan prepubescent teens fight for survival on the deserted streets of Spanish exclave Melilla, in this cold and distant Swiss-French documentary - from the 76th Locarno Film Festival [Read More...]
What Remains Stellan Skarsgard and Andrea Riseborough star in psychological crime drama about serial killer in a Scandinavian psychiatric hospital - from the Locarno Film Festival [Read More...]
Baan Two tormented young women bond through their afflictions and pains, in this unusually structured Portuguese drama - from the 76th Locarno Film Festival [Read More...]