by Anton Bitel
A shape-shifting killer stalks two closeted teenagers in Adrian Chiarella’s gripping debut, though the real terror lies in the bigotry of the small town around them.
by Hannah Strong
Jessica Hausner’s drama about a teacher who begins a troubling diet club at an elite high school is a poorly-judged slog to sit through.
by Lillian Crawford
Mia Hansen-Løve’s lilting rumination on art, relationships and cinephilia is one of her most accomplished and moving films to date.
by Sophie Monks Kaufman
Mia Wasikowska turns the tables on her male oppressor in this subversive take on the traditional marionette show.
by Elena Lazic
Mia Wasikowska and Christopher Abbot play wicked games in this psychosexual horror.
There’s charm, humour and no shortage of strangeness in this radical rewriting of Lewis Carroll’s classic tale.
by David Jenkins
Guillermo del Toro’s luxuriant Gothic romance is the full cinematic package.
by Violet Lucca
David Cronenberg indulges in a grotesque inter-family orgy on the golden sidewalks of Hollywood.
Richard Ayoade branches out into steampunk paranoia with this feisty and funny adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s 1846 novella.
The modern world is a strange and beautiful place in Jim Jarmusch’s melancholy vampire masterpiece.
by Adam Woodward
Operatic style can’t paste over the meagre, far-fetched substance in Oldboy director Park Chan-wook’s English-language debut.
Annette Bening and Julianne Moore shine in this searingly funny tale of middle-age anxiety.
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