drama
Thirty years on, Alan Clarke’s fitfully funny film, Rita, Sue and Bob Too, still holds up as a first-rate character study and resonant critique of the Thatcher era.
Wakefield is an introspective and interesting examination into a man who willingly decides to isolate himself from his family and the world.
Chuck is the story of boxing legend Chuck Wepner, yet never quite manages to match the outsized metaphoric grandeur of the film it inspired.
People is a profoundly packed indie, with the intricacies of the human condition and relationships manifesting into a well-realized film.
Hope Dickson Leach’s debut The Levelling is a familiar story of grief, told with an emotional incisiveness by brand new talent, and reminds us the British film industry is alive and well.
Afterimage is the swan song of legendary director Andrzej Wajda, depicting the artist Władysław Strzemiński during Stalinist-era Poland.
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks tells the story of Henrietta Lacks, whose cells helped to give birth to modern bio-medicine.
In the Shadow of Iris has inklings of greatness, but it suffers from a muddled plot and some questionable casting and production choices.
The Dinner might have attempted to do too much with its source material, but Steve Coogan is phenomenal, in one of his best roles to date.
Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker is ripe with philosophical connotations; here, we discuss some of the film’s more prominent ideas.
Streamer is a tense, intimate and at times stunning feature that ultimately derails in its very final moments.
Despite bringing to life some previously unseen perspectives on the holocaust, The Zookeeper’s Wife is far from faultless.
Yellow Fever wants to be an important film about Asian identity, however it falters and falls back on tired Hollywood plots and stereotypes.
Film to some is much more than a hobby, but a lifestyle. Sometimes it can…
Small Crimes’s script fails to capture the continuity of Zeltserman’s novel, and Katz doesn’t make the transition any smoother at the helm.