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  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 »

Much like his Oscar-nominated 2006 film Days of Glory, Rachid Bouchareb's Outside the Law gives us an Algerian perspective on key events in French history. T... Read more »

There's a moment in Crazy, Stupid, Love where a plot revelation is so beautifully timed it almost redeems the sheer phoniness of what has gone before, but th... Read more »

The Deep Blue Sea is the first narrative feature Terence Davies has directed in over a decade, and the material is a perfect match for this great filmmaker. ... Read more »

Once Upon a Time in Anatolia is a film of two halves, and regrettably, one half is so much richer than the other, which leaves Nuri Bilge Ceylan's latest pic... Read more »

Arthur Schnitzler's La Ronde is a play with a perfect cyclical structure, and it has already inspired one film masterpiece with Max Ophüls' seductively ... Read more »

Beasts of the Southern Wild is a film that has been drawing acclaim ever since it made its debut at Sundance, and it's easy to see why. This tale of a chil... Read more »

Danny Boyle's best films possess an exhilarating sense of forward momentum, and Trance is a perfect fit for the director's talents as it moves swiftly t... Read more »

Fracking is a hot-button issue, but you wouldn't know it from Promised Land, which barely stirs any passions as it trundles through a mundane plot. Matt Damo... Read more »

Situated in the middle of Ulrich Seidl’s trilogy, it's hard to avoid the feeling that Paradise: Faith is the weakest film of the three, but i... Read more »

With his long-distance romance drama Like Crazy, writer-director Drake Doremus had one of the breakout hits of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. The film's de... Read more »

A surprise contender at the 1986 Academy Awards, Andrei Konchalovsky’s thriller Runaway Train transcends its potentially trashy B-movie premise with co... Read more »

Alain Delon was a movie star with uncommon good looks and charisma, but only a few directors really knew how to fully exploit his particular gifts. Ren&eacut... Read more »

Ain’t Them Bodies Saints might ultimately be a triumph of craft over content, but when the craft is this impressive it seems churlish to complain. Davi... Read more »

Douglas Sirk's penultimate film is something of an anomaly in his body of work, but it's also perhaps the most personal and interesting film he ever made. A ... Read more »

Has any director ever been as adept at exploring the spaces that exist between people as Michelangelo Antonioni? His 1961 film, La Notte, is the story of a m... Read more »

After two impressive features that established Joanna Hogg as a distinctive voice in British cinema, her third film, Exhibition, finds the filmmake... Read more »

Stranger by the Lake is a film that takes place in a single location and is populated by just a handful of characters – but from these meagre ingredien... Read more »

As seemingly the only straight-arrow cop in a corrupt-to-the-core NYPD, an increasingly hirsute Al Pacino gives one of his most iconic performances in Serpic... Read more »

Although it has been co-written by former Oh Blimey Big Band member Jon Ronson, Frank is not a biopic of Frank Sidebottom or his creator Chris Sievey. Instea... Read more »

A change of pace for Jason Reitman, and a near-disastrous one, Labor Day is an earnest attempt to make an old-fashioned romance that can’t take flight ... Read more »

Frederick Wiseman spent months editing the reams of footage he shot on location, but what's remarkable about the finished product is how effortless it feels.... Read more »

Xavier Dolan's fifth feature, Mommy, could be viewed as a companion piece to his debut I Killed My Mother, with a comparison between the two films highl... Read more »

“Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothing yet!” When Al Jolson startled cinemagoers with that epochal line in 1927’s The Jazz ... Read more »

Misfit director Guy Maddin brings cinema's past to life in new film The Forbidden Room. He tells us about trying to create a sense of disinhibited wonder on ... Read more »

If you’ve been waiting ages for a verbose and bloody Western starring Kurt Russell, then you’ve just hit the jackpot. There’s a risk of Bon... Read more »

Bill Forsyth's Comfort and Joy underwhelmed at the box-office on its release in 1984 and has subsequently been out of circulation for many years,&n... Read more »

The Red Turtle is a Studio Ghibli film, but not as we know it. For the Japanese studio's first international co-production they have enlisted Michaël Du... Read more »