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The knives were out for Michael Cimino when Heaven's Gate finally limped into American cinemas in late 1980. In the New York Times, Vincent Canby described i... Read more »

Few films have explored the moral implications of murder as creatively and powerfully as The Act of Killing. Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentary introduce... Read more »

Each of Spike Jonze’s films to date has hinged on a far-fetched premise, but, crucially, they have all possessed an insight and depth of feeling that m... Read more »

Hunger and Shame proved that Steve McQueen’s artistic sensibility was well-suited to cinema, but 12 Years a Slave is the first time he has adapted his ... Read more »

Although many were impressed with J. C. Chandor’s Margin Call, it’s doubtful anybody thought he was capable of a film like All Is Lost.... Read more »

After experiencing the near-perfect construction of Asghar Farhadi's Oscar-winning A Separation and his belatedly released About Elly, one might be inclined ... Read more »

A star is born in Starred Up. From the minute Jack O’Connell swaggers onscreen he electrifies the picture with the kind of fearless and commanding perf... Read more »

If you have ever taken a moment to wonder what a vampire romance directed by Jim Jarmusch would look like, then Only Lovers Left Alive probably comes pretty ... Read more »

Joanna Hogg has been living in London for over three decades, but it has taken her three feature films to finally make a picture in the city she calls home. ... Read more »

Hollywood films have famously shown great reluctance to engage with the issue of abortion in an honest way, so the frankness of Gillian Robespierre’s d... Read more »

The documentaries that roll off the Alex Gibney production line tend to be at their best when the filmmaker is investigating a big story. Films like Mea Maxi... Read more »

Andrey Zvyagintsev's Leviathan is a film hunting big game. His fourth feature presents modern Russia as a country rotten to its core – corrupt, hypocri... Read more »

Daniel (Rabourdin) gets a lot more than he bargained for when he spends an afternoon cruising a Parisian shopping centre for a teenage boy to bring home, and... Read more »

A widespread and misguided perception of Orson Welles’ career – that it was all downhill from Citizen Kane – is turned on its head by Chime... Read more »

There’s one good joke in The Brand New Testament. As a priest counsels a homeless drunk by reciting the word of God, the down-and-out replies, “I... Read more »

Thumbsucker and Beginners director Mike Mills is back mining his own life for his art with 20th Century Women. He gives us some background on his very person... Read more »

Martin Scorsese’s long-awaited Silence is one of the Raging Bull and Goodfellas director's greatest achievements The silence is deafening in Martin Sc... Read more »

Heal the Living is the story of one heart that touches many lives. When a teenage surfer (Gabin Verdet) is killed in a car accident, his grieving parents (Em... Read more »

It’s the penultimate day of the London Film Festival and everyone is tired. Cinephiles across the capital have the drawn expressions and thousand-yard ... Read more »

Richard Linklater's ‘spiritual sequel’ to Dazed and Confused is a seemingly aimless comedy but it has hidden depths At his best, Richard Linklat... Read more »

There’s nothing special about Natasha (Pavlenkova), the introverted, middle-aged protagonist in Ivan Tverdovskiy's Zoology; nothing, that is, except fo... Read more »

  Capitalism: A Love Story is a Michael Moore film, and by now we know exactly what to expect from this frustrating filmmaker. His take on the financia... Read more »

  Not since Elem Klimov's Come and See (1985) has a film captured the atrocities of war in such a vivid, powerful fashion. City of Life and Death docum... Read more »

  Joann Sfar has subtitled his film about iconic figure Serge Gainsbourg 'Vie héroïque'; whether the subject's life deserves that desc... Read more »

Joann Sfar is certainly not a man who lacks ambition. For his directorial debut, the acclaimed French graphic novelist has chosen to tackle the life of Serge... Read more »

From the first minute of Buried to the last, we are stuck inside a wooden coffin alongside Paul Conroy (Ryan Reynolds), an American truck driver being held f... Read more »

  Catfish is a film about a man who strikes up an online friendship with a seemingly ordinary family, and that's about all you need to know. The elemen... Read more »

  A group of monks find the limits of their faith being put to the test in Of Gods and Men, Xavier Beauvois' perceptive and subtly powerful new film. T... Read more »

3D is widely seen as the cinematic tool of the future, so trust Werner Herzog to take it into the past. Cave of Forgotten Dreams is the mercurial German's fi... Read more »

In The Warrior and Far North, Asif Kapadia displayed his strength as a visual storyteller, and those same instincts are at work in Senna, the director's firs... Read more »