The Escape from director Dominic Savage is an unsettling character story, one that takes its time getting its claws into you but ultimately delivers an intense ride.
In The Public, a group of homeless people finds shelter in a library when outside temperatures drop to arctic levels. The library can’t let people stay there, and when local politics enter the equation, the situation starts to spiral out of control
Although the widespread negative reaction to I Feel Pretty is slightly unfair, the film still feels mechanically engineered to do nothing more substantial than pass the time.
While many found the 2017 release of Blade Runner 2049 to be misogynistic, the perceived sexism within the film may be more than meets the eye as the movie turns out to express anxiety about the past and not the future and an avoidance of human society.
With 30% of British children living in poverty, director Candida Brady’s film couldn’t be timelier, depicting the harsh realities of young Britons’ lives with an unapologetic sincerity.
It doesn’t always manages to keep your attention, but when Jacob’s inspired cinematography and the cast’s strong acting appear on screen, Cold November demands your attention and it surely gets it.
In Ibiza, a young American woman (Gillian Jacobs) and her two best friends seek out a hot DJ in Spain.
For this month’s Staff Inquiry, we’re examining films that were better than their original book counterparts, and we came up with some great examples.
There are flashes of genuine artistic ingenuity in A or B, but not enough to cover the frequent amount of glaring plot holes, inconsistent character decisions and general implausibility of the whole scenario.
Haifaa al-Mansour’s Mary Shelley, helped along greatly by Elle Fanning’s powerful performance, will summon up all of one’s righteous feminist anger and make one appreciate the accomplishments of Mary and those like her all the more.
Lacking emotional honesty, Disobedience from director Sebastián Lelio fails to create believable, organic tension between its characters and translate an understanding of the films primary cultural focus and subject matter.
In The Catcher Was a Spy, a major league baseball player, Moe Berg (Paul Rudd), lives a double life working as an agent for the Office of Strategic Services.
In this segment of Time Crisis, we look back at the 2014 hit Edge of Tomorrow, examining why this is the best time loop film since Groundhog Day.
Stephen Maing’s documentary deals with corruption and institutional racism in the NYPD – and recognises the police officers who are fighting a court case to help stamp this out once and for all.
Kristy Strouse spoke with the stars of Back Roads on the red carpet of Tribeca Film Festival, and reviews Sebastián Lelio’s Disobedience.