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Maude Lewis lived a singular life. A hunched figure afflicted by debilitating arthritis, Lewis spent decades living in a tiny shack in Nova Scotia, where she... Read more »

What must it feel like to be thrown into a prison in Thailand, where you can't even speak the language and you know that your life isn't worth a damn to the ... Read more »

Apichatpong Weerasethakul has by now established himself as one of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers, but the unsung hero in his work is Jenjira Pongpas, th... Read more »

Hangmen Also Die! may have been inspired by the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, but in Fritz Lang’s film the famous murder happens offscreen. Lang ... Read more »

We already know that there will be at least four sequels to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, so couldn't J.K. Rowling have saved some of this first f... Read more »

Do you really need superpowers to be a superhero? Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson) doesn't think so. This geeky teen relies on nothing more than his own determi... Read more »

Bong Joon-ho is a filmmaker who loves to upend audience expectations. After making The Host, South Korea's highest-grossing film of all time, he made the sur... Read more »

  Francis Ford Coppola is in his 70s now, but Tetro feels like a young man's film. It's a deeply personal picture that's overflowing with exuberance an... Read more »

Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Palme d'Or winner Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives is a unique and mesmerising piece of filmmaking, but it won't be to... Read more »

Matt Reeves' Let Me In may be a pointless exercise, but as pointless exercises go, it's not a bad effort. This English-language remake of the cult Swedish ho... Read more »

In Derek Cianfrance's Blue Valentine we witness both the birth and death of a relationship. Dean (Ryan Gosling) and Cindy (Michelle Williams) have been toget... Read more »

Are you ready for the scariest film of the year? Lucy Walker's new documentary Countdown to Zero examines the ever-present nuclear threat, depicting it as a ... Read more »

  Win Win is a character-driven film that is blessed with real characters; people we can understand, be interested in, and care about. That has been th... Read more »

After going through the motions with a couple of features that failed to match the sharp wit of his best work, Pedro Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In is... Read more »

There have been many screen versions of Wuthering Heights but we've never seen one quite like this. Andrea Arnold has brought her bold, uncompromising vision... Read more »

As gratifying as it was to see Terence Davies' 2008 documentary Of Time and The City receive such unexpected and deserved acclaim, The Deep Blue Sea feels... Read more »

Finnish master of deadpan Aki Kaurismäki discusses his new film, Le Havre, and his future as a filmmaker It can sometimes be dangerous to make assumpti... Read more »

Werner Herzog's latest enquiry into human nature takes him to Texas, where he explores the fallout from a decade-old murder. Into the Abyss is built around i... Read more »

Where is the danger in A Dangerous Method? This exploration of the relationship between Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) and Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen) sh... Read more »

It's hard to imagine more of a guaranteed crowdpleaser than The Artist, Michel Hazanavicius' stupendously entertaining homage to silent cinema, which is like... Read more »

Nadine Labaki's new film is called Where Do We Go Now? but a more pertinent question might be, 'What was she thinking?' Having made an impressive directorial... Read more »

When substitute teacher Henry Barthes (Brody) walks into a classroom of troubled teens, we are primed to expect a story of education and redemption, but that... Read more »

"I'm sorry, I speak a lot," Mia Hansen-Løve says, suddenly breaking off in mid-sentence. "It's because I know you are my last interview today and I wa... Read more »

Mia Hansen-Løve's Goodbye First Love covers the well-worn ground of teenage romance, but it does so with a sensitivity and honesty that makes the subj... Read more »

Love Crime is the last film Alain Corneau made before his death, and it initially looks like it might act as a fitting swansong. Kristin Scott Thomas and Lud... Read more »

With the majority of American films being terrified of approaching sex in anything like an honest fashion, the frankness and good humour of The Sessions is a... Read more »

After his limp 70s-set comedy Potiche, the latest offering from François Ozon finds the director back on top form. With its exploration of voyeurism a... Read more »

This Is the End is like a Who’s Who of contemporary American comedy, with almost everyone who has graced an Apatow production in the past decade making... Read more »

After making an unsettling and memorable foray into thriller territory with The Skin I Live In, Pedro Almodóvar’s new film feels like a consciou... Read more »

After screenings of Our Children, most discussions will surely centre on Joachim Lafosse's choice of framing device. The film begins with a scene informing u... Read more »