By Mark Asch
The Dardenne brothers return with a harrowing story of human trafficking in Belgium, centring on two young migrants.
By Mark Asch
Annie Ernaux and her son David piece together a magical home movie essay on marriage, motherhood and the whole damn thing.
By Mark Asch
Ethan Coen’s solo debut effort is a ribald and energising archive montage on the life of taboo-busting rocker, Jerry Lee Lewis.
By Mark Asch
A donkey in a travelling circus grapples with cruel fate in Jerzy Skolimowski’s strangely captivating drama.
By Mark Asch
Kirill Serebrennikov focuses on the relationship between one of Russia’s greatest composers and his adoring, but unloved, partner.
By Mark Asch
Two strangers meet on a fateful train journey from Moscow to the Arctic Circle in Juho Kuosmanen’s romantic drama.
By Mark Asch
Kirill Serebrennikov presents a fascinating, intense portrait of a comic book artist who suffers from a strange illness.
By Mark Asch
Sean Penn’s directorial follow-up to The Last Face is a blatantly self-indulgent vanity project full of tiring clichés.
By Mark Asch
Apichatpong Weerasethakul meticulously crafts a sensory journey soaked in introspection and metaphysical perplexity.
By Mark Asch
Léa Seydoux plays a TV journalist in Bruno Dumont’s satire-of-sorts about France’s relationship with its media and itself.
By Mark Asch
Tilda Swinton is extraordinary in a film by Apichatpong Weerasethakul which comprises of “pure vibes”.
By Mark Asch
Kirill Serebrennikov’s delirious latest offers a strikingly singular vision of life in post-Soviet Russia.
By Mark Asch
Sean Penn returns to Cannes five years after the fiasco of The Last Face with a somehow even more calamitous family drama.
By Mark Asch
This delicate Finnish comedy of social and political manners has all the trappings of an arthouse crowd-pleaser.
By Mark Asch
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s bright, hopeful film addresses the persistent issue of women’s reproductive health in present-day Chad.
By Mark Asch
Portuguese master Pedro Costa charts a Cape Verdean émigré’s journey through the outskirts of Lisbon.
By Mark Asch
Clint Eastwood continues his stellar run of films about unlikely American heroes hunted by the spotlight.
By Mark Asch
Clint Eastwood directs and stars in this outstanding American road movie about an ageing drug runner.
By Mark Asch
The inhabitants of a Turkish retirement home contemplate life’s big questions in this captivating doc from Shevaun Mizrahi.
By Mark Asch
Rejecting the physics of an ever-expanding comic book universe, Bryan Singer’s Superman reboot has passed the test of time.
By Mark Asch
Everything is connected – including Peter Adolphsen’s ‘Machine’ and Terrence Malick’s 2011 film.
By Mark Asch
Intimidating and otherworldly, the Australian actor’s impeccable physique has earned him the title of Manliest Man in Hollywood.
By Mark Asch
Robert Eggers’ film provides an evocative reminder of the anxieties, fears and early religious beliefs that shaped the New World.
By Mark Asch
A kaleidoscopic and intentionally lurid gangster rap battle movie from Japanese provocateur Sion Sono.
By Mark Asch
One of cinema’s Old Masters returns with this poetic and profound dissection of art and storytelling.
By Mark Asch
A meek and mild school teacher spirals into Aussie Hell in this riveting, repellant restoration.
By Mark Asch
One of classic cinema’s great, uncategorisable outliers returns triumphantly to the big screen.
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