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Howard Hawks made so many great films that it’s inevitable a few are unjustly overlooked. One such film is 1948 western Red River, which offers a prime... Read more »

An Oversimplification of Her Beauty is a love story, and it appropriately feels as if it has been made with the heart more than the head. This debut feature ... Read more »

When was the last time you saw an erotic thriller that worked simultaneously on both levels? Stranger by the Lake is the rare film that integrates explicit s... Read more »

It might seem perverse for a low-budget independent film to secure the services of a rising, recently Oscar-nominated star and then hide him behind a cartoon... Read more »

Filipino director Lav Diaz has been working consistently since the late 1990s but, with most of his films running for anything up to nine hours, the rel... Read more »

A year has passed since Pawel Pawlikowski's Ida was first unveiled for festival audiences, and in the course of that year it has quickly become one of the mo... Read more »

As we watch Joaquin Phoenix’s shambling, stoned detective saunter aimlessly through a labyrinthine plot in 1970s LA, it’s easy to see why Robert ... Read more »

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

In May 2009, a young man named Xavier Dolan arrived in Cannes to present his new film, the story of a troubled relationship between a mother and her son. In ... Read more »

Sergei Loznitsa’s Maidan is a film that achieves a visceral sense of immediacy by keeping its distance. Shooting from judiciously chosen vantage points... Read more »

The inaccurate English retitling of Céline Sciamma’s Bande de filles has led some to draw comparisons with Boyhood, but where Richard Linklater&... Read more »

Forty years on from its release, there's no doubt that Rollerball feels like a prescient film. It's set in a world run by corporations and its use of a viole... Read more »

You don't watch The Forbidden Room, you surrender to it. This is Guy Maddin's first full-length feature since 2011's Keyhole, and it sometimes feels as if ev... Read more »

At the start of Mustang, a group of schoolchildren celebrate the freedom of the summer holidays by heading to the beach and playing in the sea. They are a pi... Read more »

When you consider that Rainer Werner Fassbinder is known primarily for producing films at a ridiculous rate, most of which were fuelled by copious amounts of... Read more »

From To Be or Not to Be to Tropic Thunder, the idea of actors being inadvertently pulled into real-life jeopardy has served as a durable comic premise for ye... Read more »

Over a decade has passed since Michaël Dudok de Wit received a letter that changed the course of his life. It was an invitation from Studio Ghibli, the ... Read more »

While watching Katell Quillévéré’s Heal the Living, it’s so easy to imagine the many ways it could have gone wrong. In the h... Read more »

Todd Solondz has always been drawn to life’s underdogs, so making his protagonist a literal underdog was inevitable. In Wiener-Dog we meet four individ... Read more »

Written in haste to scupper a mooted studio biopic starring Rupert Everett and Madonna (the mind boggles!), Alex Cox’s Sid & Nancy is a messy portr... Read more »

Moonlight, a gorgeous and deeply-moving character study of a young black man grappling with his sexuality in working-class Miami, is the year's most talked a... Read more »

Mike Mills’ 2010 film Beginners was largely focused on his father’s late-in-life revelation of homosexuality, but his mother (a sardonic, scene-s... Read more »

Following the trailblazing success of Easy Rider in 1969, Peter Fonda was given free rein to do whatever he wanted with his next project. The film that he pr... Read more »

The Party opens with a dishevelled Kristin Scott Thomas pointing a gun at the camera, so we know from the get-go that the get-together she's hosting has gone... Read more »

Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes is an overblown mess which is almost saved by the charisma of its stars. As the great detective and his loyal sidekick Watson, ... Read more »

  In Lucrecia Martel's The Headless Woman, all it takes is a bump on the head to throw the central character's whole world out of sync. Verónica... Read more »

  In Yorgos Lanthimos' Dogtooth, the outside world is a terrifying place; at least, that's the fiction two parents have concocted for their three grown... Read more »

  Having declared himself "The king of the world", James Cameron has now become a creator of worlds. His astonishing epic Avatar takes place on Pandora... Read more »

  A very unusual friendship forms the heart of Mary and Max, Adam Elliot's enchanting stopmotion animated debut feature. Mary (Toni Collette) is a lone... Read more »

Tyrannosaur opens with an act of astonishing cruelty and at times the relentless bleakness of Paddy Considine's directorial debut threatens to becomes suffoc... Read more »