There’s distinctive new voice booming from Brazil (and it sounds a lot like John Carpenter).
By Anton Bitel
Palme d’Or winner Cristian Mungiu returns with a searing love story that riffs on both The Exorcist and Black Narcissus.
Ridley Scott directing. Cormac McCarthy writing. Michael Fassbender starring. What could possibly go wrong?
Operatic style can’t paste over the meagre, far-fetched substance in Oldboy director Park Chan-wook’s English-language debut.
How could a gore-flecked take on the beloved Brothers’ Grimm fairy tale turn out to be such a write-off?
Tom Hanks and Halle Berry go all out to give the mad, multi-stranded sci-fi folly a bad name.
The bold concept behind Cate Shortland’s wrenching Nazi downfall drama is sold short by its overblown style.
Lars von Trier’s two-part psychosexual epic makes for invigorating, profound and occasionally baffling viewing.
Don’t believe the anti-hype: Terrence Malick’s fractured modern love poem is a sensual marvel.
By Chris Blohm
Riffing on the 8-bit icons of retro arcade games, Wreck-It Ralph is strictly B-grade Disney.
By Ashley Clark
Gael García Bernal takes down a dictator with glossy TV advertising in this brilliant Chilean satire.
By Violet Lucca
Rust And Bone bruiser Matthias Schoenaerts is our tragic guide to the crazy world of the Flemish bovine hormone black market.
Slam-bang action icons Walter Hill and Sylvester Stallone buddy up for some muscle-flexing and gunplay.
By Simon Crook
Kathryn Bigelow’s rapid response to the death of Osama Bin Laden is a taut and morally ambiguous procedural for the ages.
By Vadim Rizov
Steven Spielberg’s solemn latest is less a biopic and more a complex drama on the subject of political ends versus means.
Arnie takes the stage as America’s last line of defence in Kim Jee-woon’s highly satisfying action romp.