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Originally titled Weightless, the new existential drama from writer-director Terence Malick stars Rooney Mara, Ryan Gosling, Michael Fassbender and Natalie P... Read more »

Lee Van Cleef followed The Good, the Bad and the Ugly with this similarly tough Spaghetti Western. Van Cleef (as Frank) marches his spare strut and coyo... Read more »

Carol The postwar boom of 1950s America has by now been roundly picked apart for its veneer of suburban utopia masking repression underneath, but Todd Hayne... Read more »

Sully is Clint Eastwood’s latest directorial example of complex American mythmaking. Tom Hanks stars as Chesley Sullenberger, the pilot lauded for... Read more »

As a piece of filmmaking, the strengths and flaws of Art Party are very much intertwined. In depicting Smith and cohorts on their real-life trip to 2013... Read more »

At a breakneck pace, Spione, Fritz Lang’s follow-up to Metropolis, lays out the template for all spy actioners that would follow. Rudolf Klei... Read more »

Junkies, dealers, swindlers, pimps and chancers, all shimmering in the dark night. As Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez did with their decidedly masculine Si... Read more »

Globe-trotting documentarian Kim Longinotto hits the streets of Chicago for Dreamcatcher, the study of Brenda Myers-Powell, a former prostitute who now couns... Read more »

The Tribe, Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy’s devastating ensemble piece, is told entirely in Ukrainian sign language, with no dialogue and no subtitles. Rather... Read more »

Arriving with a Palme d’Or win and an ample 196-minute running time, Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s latest contemplative drama from the Anatolian steppes so... Read more »

In Black Sea, a muscular Jude Law adopts a Scottish accent and a salty persona to lead a submarine crew looking for lost Nazi gold. The mariners evade Putin&... Read more »

Terence Davies’ adaptation of Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s classic is so radiant that we hope the Liverpudlian filmmaker will get a crack at adapting t... Read more »

Wunderkind cult auteur Alex Ross Perry, whose caustic comedy Listen Up Philip was one of the standout films of in 2014, returns with another richly shot 16mm... Read more »

Nate Parker's slavery epic is a pre-digested and formulaic take on Nat Turner's slave rebellion The reaction to Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation ha... Read more »

As horror premises go, this one is delicious – a sexually transmitted curse that causes a monster to follow its victims to the death, assuming any form... Read more »

Aleksei German spent 15 years directing this adaptation of the classic Russian sci-fi novel only to die before its release. Few filmmakers could imagine crea... Read more »

Tangerine Sean Baker’s Tangerine (★★★★) is a dazzling rush around the Sunset Strip, following Sin-Dee (Kitana Kiki Rodriguez), a trans prostitute... Read more »

Isabelle Huppert dominates Elle, the complex new thriller from RoboCop director Paul Verhoeven The common critical cop-out on Elle, the latest wild ride fro... Read more »

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at stars,” goes the famous Oscar Wilde quote, but Terrence Malick, as is his wont, goes fur... Read more »

One of the most critically beloved competitors at Cannes, Maren Ade’s eccentric, slow-burning comedy-drama Toni Erdmann has a premise, and even themes,... Read more »

Kelly Reichardt makes quiet, contemplative movies about the American West and the quiet, contemplative people who live there. Though she was born in Florida,... Read more »

Mommy (Xavier Dolan) Xavier Dolan's fifth feature, Mommy, could be viewed as a companion piece to his debut I Killed My Mother, with a comparison betwe... Read more »

Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard) “I hate characters,” a woman states in Goodbye to Language, and it’s clear she is speaking on behalf... Read more »

GIRLHOOD (CÉLINE SCIAMMA) The inaccurate English retitling of Céline Sciamma’s Bande de filles has led some to draw comparisons with Boy... Read more »

I Am Belfast Dir. Mark Cousins Mark Cousins is arguably one of the best film essayists of our time, and the kind of thoughtful, gentle and poetic auteur ... Read more »

Evolution Dir: Lucile Hadzihalilovic Ever since writer/director Lucile Hadzihalilovic teased that she was working on an original feature over a decade ag... Read more »

The best things to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including FKA Twigs’ Soundtrack 7, the new season of Gil... Read more »

Mad Max: Fury Road (George Miller) Mad Max: Fury Road feels like a miracle; similar to “the green place” MacGuffin that Charlize Theron’... Read more »

Princess Cyd (Stephen Cone) It's hard to imagine we'll see many more perfectly matched performances this year than the two delivered by Rebecca Spence and... Read more »

1. Moonlight Dir. Barry Jenkins At a Q&A session following one of Moonlight’s public screenings at this year’s London Film Festival, dire... Read more »