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Writer-director Sebastián Silva here channels early Polanski to produce a beguiling and gut-wrenching psychological horror for the Diablo Cody generat... Read more »

Forgotten Frenchman The last hundred or so years of movies are a treasure trove. You can spend your life with your nose stuck in film books or scouring cine... Read more »

Music teacher Keith (Pierce) is fighting suburban suffocation. He sneaks guilty cigarettes and regretful pauses as he considers what might have been if he ch... Read more »

Anna Rose Holmer’s audacious, atmospheric feature debut follows the journey of 11-year-old Toni as she makes the confusing transition from lonely tombo... Read more »

Standing in a wheelie bin, hiring a fat guy to play an athlete and wiping faeces off your front door are apparently just some of the lengths that aspiring fi... Read more »

Traumatised by her experiences as a soldier in Iraq, Lotte (Trine Dyrholm) returns to Denmark, where she drifts and drinks until she gets a job as a driver a... Read more »

Though ostensibly documentary, The Lifeguard’s shrewdly observed drama unfolds as precisely as any plotted fiction. On a busy Chilean beach, dreadlocke... Read more »

Edinburgh International Film Festival kicks off tomorrow and it looks like it could be a corker. Its much-loved B-movie sidebar, Night Moves, has been given ... Read more »

Something, Anything is a concise, fascinating exploration of American life, making pointed use of Southern cultural values for a more universal story of mala... Read more »

Stray Dogs is an existentialist study of human endurance presented in two acts. Both are spectacular. The first follows a man (Tsai’s go-to leading man... Read more »

Scottish Mussel follows Martin Compston as a Glaswegian schemer moonlighting as an illegal pearl fisher in the Highland streams, with the help of his bu... Read more »

With Inside Out, their 15th animated feature, animation house Pixar take a detour to avoid some of the visual and storytelling beats that have made even thei... Read more »

As we’ve previously announced, this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival will open and closed with two world premieres of home grown film... Read more »

Maggie’s Plan is one of those New York-set rom-coms where neurotic bourgie types fret over crumbling marriages in tasteful yet funky rooms with books b... Read more »

Can documentaries tell us the truth? Natalia Baal discusses the fine line between fact and fiction, and explores the art of the “the creative treatment... Read more »

Believe it or not, but this is my first Edinburgh International Film Festival. I know, I know, and I call myself a film buff. The closest I’ve ever com... Read more »

Each year EIFF runs a strand of late-night premieres – films with niche appeal, for fans of genre fare. These tend to reach a small but avid audience a... Read more »

A powerful, despair-laced central performance from Robert Carlyle elevates Marshall Lewy’s at times ponderous look at an alcoholic former rocker attemp... Read more »

Coffee is the beverage of choice in Maximilian Hult’s sweet but never treacly directorial debut, and with a name like Home, it’s not difficult to... Read more »

Jon Watts’ lean Cop Car has a simple title and a simple premise. Needless complications aren’t piled onto proceedings and the film’s all th... Read more »

Harley Quinn Smith and Lily-Rose Depp star in Kevin Smith's good-natured meta-comedy mess Yoga Hosers Relying on a host of sub-Austin Powers gags – in... Read more »

What’s the third largest film industry in the world after Hollywood and Bollywood? No? Nollywood, of course. In less than twenty years, using cheap dig... Read more »

  Embracing its former reputation as the intellectual film festival, the 65th EIFF’s Project: New Cinephilia invites critics, bloggers, journalis... Read more »

To boldly go where no man has gone before - a phrase that remains inextricable from a certain sci-fi telly series, and one with limited application to anyone... Read more »

Jang Kun-jae continues to impress following his Dragons & Tigers award for first feature Eighteen; here with a tender reflection on the drama contained w... Read more »

This highly accomplished, micro-budget drama from Nathan Silver offers a rich study of loneliness and its different effects. Newly qualified nurse Elena (Kia... Read more »

It sounds like the start of a bad joke: how does a “caucasian, pigment-challenged” Dane become Liberia’s diplomatic representative in the C... Read more »

In a rural Chinese town a young couple sit silently facing each other. It is a good few minutes before sparse words are spoken. The frigid atm... Read more »

What can be more worthy than a film highlighting the cruelty of torture? And what more torturous than almost two hours as witness to such soulless barbarity?... Read more »

Two pivotal periods in Brian Wilson’s life collide in Bill Pohlad's dizzying study of the former Beach Boy. One concerns the creation of 1966‘s P... Read more »