I Wish
By . Published 22 May 2013
Hirokazu Koreeda's Nobody Knows (2004) is one of the saddest films ever made about childhood, but his latest, I Wish, feels like the optimistic flipside to that picture. The Japanese director is...
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Sacrifice
By . Published 20 May 2013If there's one thing that we learn from this historical epic from director Chen Kaige (Farewell My Concubine), it is that if revenge is a dish best served cold (15-years...
The Last Stand
By . Published 20 May 2013"I'll give the sheriff a call to tell him to get out of the way." When a psychopathic cartel boss is sprung from custody in Las Vegas and races towards...
Gangster Squad
By . Published 20 May 2013Not much liked by the critics on its theatrical release, Gangster Squad's account of the creation of an extra-legal LAPD team to take down mob boss Mickey Cohen in postwar...
The Unbelievable Truth
By . Published 17 May 2013Audry feels, and looks, like the heroine of a Nouvelle Vague film who is trapped in the very ordinary surroundings of a Long Island suburb in the late 1980s. She...
Hors Satan
By . Published 06 May 2013No one goes to French filmmaker Bruno Dumont for easy answers or anything approaching ‘fun.’ His oeuvre is marked by an ascetic aesthetic, employed to serve sober themes – and...
Quartet
By . Published 29 April 2013Dustin Hoffman's shameless Bafta-bait arrives on DVD and is a pleasant diversion, if ultimately lacking in substance. Maggie Smith leads an all-star cast as a retired opera singer struggling to...
Knightriders
By . Published 16 April 2013Knightriders opens with a wonderful visual gag. Through a gauzy lens we see a naked Ed Harris awake with his lady friend in sylvan glade. After bathing in the river,...
The Collection
By . Published 12 April 2013A sequel of sorts to The Collector, from 2009, The Collection opens with an entertaining scene in which a gimp-masked serial killer takes out an entire nightclub-full of particularly objectionable revellers with...
Vulgaria
By . Published 10 April 2013A gross-out comedy from Hong Kong, the well named Vulgaria pushes the boundaries of taste in its dialogue and storyline while coyly keeping what appears on screen comparatively chaste. To Wai-Cheung...
may i kill u?
By . Published 08 April 2013A bash on the head turns a mild-mannered London bobby into a serial killer, albeit one who only targets those who break the law and agree to be killed. Writer/director...
Zaytoun
By . Published 04 April 2013A cross-conflict road movie set during the 1982 Lebanese war, Zaytoun gets plenty right. For one, it looks fantastic, with cinematographer Dan Laustsen lensing war-blasted cities and malignly mine-strewn countryside...
Ten Years
By . Published 21 March 2013Middle age bites early in middle America if this Big Chill-esque film is to be believed. A group of friends attend their ten year high school reunion and, over a...
Living Apart Together
By . Published 21 March 2013On tour to promote his breakthrough hit single, Richie is a singer-songwriter on the cusp of fame when he has to return to his home town of Glasgow for an...
Boxing Day
By . Published 18 March 2013Time and technology have moved on since Bernard Rose made Ivansxtc, the first of his loose, contemporary adaptations of Tolstoy stories starring Danny Huston. In 2000, that film's barebones production values and digital...
My Brother the Devil
By . Published 11 March 2013Sally El Hosaini's debut feature is a remarkably slick and confident coming-of-age tale about two immigrant brothers embroiled in Hackney's violent gang culture. When the elder brother (James Floyd) decides...
Alps
By . Published 11 March 2013"I'll do anything you want." It is a mark of the topsy-turvy world that Yorgos Lanthimos has created in his new film, Alps, that, when a female character offers herself with...
The Bay
By . Published 11 March 2013Barry Levinson's original plan was to make a documentary detailing the terrible environmental degradation of his beloved Chesapeake Bay on America's east coast, but he decided that his message would...
Elena
By . Published 11 March 2013The third feature from Andrey Zvyagintsev is an icy anti-thriller thick with tension and brimming with allegorical undertones. Nadezhda Markina is superb in the title role: a retired nurse from...
Premium Rush
By . Published 24 February 2013Premium Rush is the story of Wilee, a lawyer turned bike messenger, who is on a mission to deliver an envelope on which a life depends, hotly pursued by a dirty...
