This steamy and giddily uneven rural romance from Spanish filmmaker Isabel Coixet is almost saved by Laia Costa’s committed central performance.
This Greenland-set drama from Danish director Isabella Eklöf, about a husband and father dealing with the trauma of abuse, makes for oppressively grim and only occasionally revelatory viewing.
Reliable Belgian director Joachim Lafosse serves up more lurid scandal sheet fodder in this dismal tale of a wife and mother trying to sweep her husband’s vile transgressions under the rug.
Amiable American comedy of dented male egos in which Griffin Dunne’s recent divorcee accidentally crashes his son's bachelor party.
The latest from Romanian filmmaker Cristi Puiu comprises four salty slices of pandemic-era life which range from the outwardly comic to the overtly grizzly.
Luis De Filippis' film is a great addition to a transgender cinematic canon in that it refuses to rely on overt explorations of trauma.
This searingly intense character study sees a woman questioning her cosy bourgeois lifestyle in Pinochet’s Chile.
Terence Davies’ handsome biopic of the poet Siegfried Sassoon is a lament for lost youth and stolen love.
Two films at the San Sebastian Film Festival showcase a more old school way of depicting the bittersweet passage of time.
An intended orgy of cinephile pleasure translates as a misguided and misbegotten dud in James Franco’s long-delayed Hollywood satire.
An A-list ensemble headlines writer/director Drew Goddard’s sensational follow-up to The Cabin in the Woods.
Zama star Lola Dueñas gives an astonishing central performance in Journey to a Mother’s Room.
A drunk Anne Hathaway wreaks havoc in South Korea in this brilliant, utterly bizarre monster movie.
Polish director Bartosz M Kowalski’s Playground graphically depicts the murder of a toddler.
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