The barroom love-tester is God in this gentle sci-fi comedy with Riz Ahmed and Jessie Buckley as working stiffs at a scientific institute for love.
Despite some compelling performances, Michael Pearce’s sci-fi thriller fails to live up to the promise of his debut, Beast.
Riz Ahmed is a father on a mission to save his sons from an extraterrestrial threat in Michael Pearce’s complex sci-fi drama.
Riz Ahmed plays a drummer who loses his hearing in Darius Marder’s bold and brilliant debut.
The writer/director of Sound of Metal discusses replicating the experience of deafness on screen.
Riz Ahmed shines as a rapper who reconnects with his spiritual roots after suffering a chronic illness.
By Leila Latif
The actor and director discuss the shared experiences that inspired their bittersweet love letter to their spiritual home.
He portrays a stickman who is rapidly going deaf in Darius Marder’s visceral debut feature.
Riz Ahmed plays an ambitious rapper in director Bassam Tariq’s thumping drama.
Riz Ahmed is on career best mode in this sensitive portrait of a metal drummer losing his hearing.
The festival’s sidebar includes new films from Julie Delpy and Sarah Gavron, plus Riz Ahmed as a heavy metal drummer.
The poor box office performance of The Sisters Brothers and films like it suggests interest in this quintessential American film genre is on the wane.
Joaquin Phoenix and John C Reilly saddle up for director Jacques Audiard’s lighthearted western.
By Henry Bevan
From Lois Lane to Eddie Brock, the role of the intrepid reporter is often reduced to a cheap plot device.
Tom Hardy sneers and sweats his way through this sanitised origin story of Marvel’s Spidey-bothering baddie.
Joaquin Phoenix and John C Reilly play gunslinging siblings in Jacques Audiard’s warm-hearted western adventure.
Joaquin Phoenix, Jake Gyllenhaal and John C Reilly star in the French director’s Oregon oater.