Reviews

Both bear uneasy depictions of violence, yet one resonates powerfully and with evident quality. The other, ill-considered in near every respect

We don’t deserve Pedro Almodovar; thank God he disagrees

The Apollo 11 mission might be one of the last things that might typically call for a suspense-ridden retelling. Thankfully, the filmmakers didn’t listen.

Earning the time to tell this story, The Lives of Others Director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck has triumphed again

Growing older is hard, growing up is harder

It’s rare that a film with such efficient storytelling could flounder for nearly two hours

Are zombie movies experiencing a fatigue or a renaissance?

A British gun for hire, a wedding, a less than willing bride and a mysterious stranger. What could possibly go wrong?

That which we do garner from these intimate portraits in their depiction of that so affecting our subjects' lives is moving and, due in no small part to each of the leads’ willingness to share and be so open, roundly impacting

PJ Harvey wasn’t up for recording a regular album, so she took it on the road

A near-futurist neon-dystopian theological Brazilian sex-sci-fi isn’t what you’d normally come across at the cinema

Above and beyond all else beautifully shot, the sequences in each of the four locations are rendered stunningly

The title tells you everything you need to know

It’s rare you see a newcomer with such star power but then there’s The Best of Dorien B

Four South African twenty-somethings of diverse racial backgrounds go on a camping trip into the country. Shot on a set of iPhones and largely improvised, they awake one morning to find they’ve switched bodies

Afghanistan’s first psychedelic metal band will hopefully not be their last

There have been a lot of adaptations, homages or films otherwise inspired by Rear Window; Number 37 might just be the best

Casting matters. So does chemistry

Most stories are better without a sledgehammer to drive it’s point home, though subtlety doesn’t always help

Stinging like a bee, Float Like A Butterfly lands every hook we’ve come to expect from boxing flicks, while unlike almost any that’s made it to the big screen

An uncommon insight into the less-travelled avenues of Dublin

Calling The Lonely Battle of Thomas Reid a documentary wouldn’t quite be fair

Visually captivating and ever in a constant state of flux, The Wild Boys’ thematic bona fides are just trying to keep up

If you’re going to make a zombie movie today you really have to clamber above the pack

A comedy of awful errors and even worse people, Crime Wave stumbles sparingly and when it finds it’s feet it lands

Very few films are ground-breaking in a visual, technical or narrative sense. To manage all three is a rare achievement, though not nearly so remarkable as Alex Honnold

It took decades to get this film to theatres; the finished product, as much as Terry Gilliam’s perseverance, is as strong a reminder as any of why we watch movies, and always will

Recounting lesser-known events and their reasons for obscurity in the life of Massachusetts poet Emily Dickinson (Molly Shannon), Wild Nights With Emily takes a few less than conventional approaches

Sometimes abstract just doesn’t work

All the pieces did well to come together for this one