Writer-director Machoian’s solo feature debut is an understated and economic but gripping study of wounded masculinity and marital disintegration.…

Trading in the awe-inspiring vistas of previous picture ‘Aquarela’, a globe-trotting documentary which explored …

John Krasinski’s first ‘A Quiet Place’, in which a family fought off blind, sound-sensitive mysterious monsters in their farmhouse, made a virtue of its simplicity…

Argentinian writer-director Katz’s touching absurdist drama, with its short running time and languid pacing, may sound slight, but there’s enough going on her to fill three normal pictures.…

American writer-director Reichardt’s loose adaptation of Jon Raymond’s ‘The Half-Life’, (Raymond co-wrote the screenplay) may be her finest film to date.…

For her writing-directing effort Billie Piper aims high but misfires spectacularly with this shrill, barely coherent and tiring ‘anti rom com’.…

The opening of Lance Oppenheim’s accomplished debut, a documentary about retirement community The Villages, with its shots of synchronised golf buggy…

The Greek weird wave a la Yorgos Lanthimos continues with this droll and spookily prescient first feature from director Christos Nikou.…

Like her previous picture ‘Mr Jones’, which profiled the Welsh journalist who unearthed the truth about the Stalin regime, Polish director Holland’s latest…

Inspired by journalist Jessica Bruder’s 2017 book ‘Nomadland: Surviving America in the 21st Century’, Chloé Zhao’s third picture, a soulful and insightful study…

Originally envisioned as a documentary exclusively about Capote, but revised in the event of ‘The Capote Tapes’, Vreeland’s film is a fascinating account of the forty-year-old friendship…

Actor-writer turned director Levine’s third picture is a boldly experimental meta-tale with dashes of pitch black comedy and Lynchian dread. …

Despite the potentially heady subject matter, twenty-year-old writer-director-star Lindon’s portrait of a sixteen-year-old and her relationship with a man twice her age, is a wilfully breezy affair.…

Japanese writer-director Kawase’s adaptation of mystery writer Mizuki Tsujimura’s novel is a unwieldly family drama and study of motherhood with thriller and social realist elements.…

Shades of Gregg Araki’s neon-lit strangeness in this accomplished debut from Australian writer-director Samuel Van Grinsven, a coming-of-age tale with thriller …

German writer-director Petzold reunites with the stars of his haunting existential thriller, 'Transit' for this oblique but nicely-played romantic drama, inspired by the titular myth.…

Following the charming cats in Istanbul documentary ‘Kedi’, the latest addition to the Turkish vérité quadruped-verse is a melancholy but tentatively hopeful study of three stray dog…

British director’s Lee’s follow-up to his feature debut ‘God’s Own County’ is another unvarnished but affecting love story, loosely inspired the life of 19th century palaeontologist Mary Anning.…

Spanish director Trueba’s adaptation of Héctor Abad Faciolince’s best-selling Columbian memoir boasts a very fine central performance from Cámara as the titular figure…

For the most part, this unwieldly-titled but meditative genre-skipping mystery from Hungarian director Horvát casts quite a spell.…

This affecting and insightful documentary about the prodigiously talented X-Ray Spex frontwoman Polly Styrene, co-directed by her daughter Celeste Bell is part…

This intelligent and nuanced profile of rock and R&B singer Tina Turner delves much deeper than might be expected of an artist-endorsed documentary, mainly thanks to the artist’s thoughtful and grounded observations.…

The Glasgow Film Festival gets off to a slightly muted start with this solid, but rote family drama.…

The years have been kind to Scottish comedy ‘Restless Natives’ which, on its release in 1985, was met with reviews ranging from indifferent to harsh…

Set in 1969, this fascinating and beautifully played but narratively saggy thriller recounts the American authorities’ relentless attempts to stop Chicago radical and Black Panther Fred Hampton.…

Alex Winter’s meticulously assembled documentary of the divisive and eclectic musician Frank Zappa strikes an artful balance between wacky portrait of …

The bold feature debut from writer-director Charlene Favier is a gripping but depressingly timely and harrowingly plausible portrait of a competitive skier and her abusive trainer.…

Chinese-American writer-director Yan’s feature debut (which she has since followed up with Harley Quinn picture, ‘Birds of Prey’) is an ambitious but misfiring…

French-Lebanese director Arbid’s adaptation of French writer Annie Ernaux’s 1991 best-selling French novel is a flawed, typically Gallic tale of amour fou…

Following their flawed but enigmatic and genuinely unsettling picture, ‘The Endless’ in which a pair of brothers returned to the UFO Cult in which they were raised…

Part biography and part psychoanalysis session, director Burnough’s pacey documentary portrait of writer/socialite Truman Capote draws in large part from …

International co-productions can often be well-meaning but muddled affairs. This riveting and heart-rending drama, set during the Srebrenica massacre, bucks that trend triumphantly. …

Not quite the disaster forewarned, but David Bowie deserves better than this glum biopic/road movie that charts the pre-Ziggy artist’s first trip to the USA in 1971.…

A gripping character study as well as illuminating historical drama, veteran Russian director Konchalovsky’s latest picture revolves around the massacre …

Set over three acts, playwright Dante’s affecting second picture, adapted from her stage play, chronicles the fallout of a family tragedy reaching over decades.…

2017’s ‘Wonder Woman’ came as a pleasant breezy surprise, refreshingly free of the clutter and murk of the DC adaptations that preceded it…

While this comprehensive documentary about the iconic Gibb brothers doesn’t really go to deep into the personal stuff, despite the leading title…

Set over a hot Berlin summer writer-director Krippendorff’s second feature is an appealing and astute coming of age/coming out story.…

This lyrical, understated and deeply empathetic documentary charts the experiences of two young men scrambling to survive in Sicily. …

Based on his experiences as a youth worker, writer-director Blake’s impressive debut is a taut, and well-played coming-of-age drama with striking visuals. …

Cult status awaits this visually impressive but elusively allegorical supernatural thriller set in rural Argentina, pitched somewhere between Guillermo del Toro and David Lynch…

Congratulations if you had offbeat Flemish comedy drama set in a nudist colony from the ‘Peaky Blinders’ director on your 2020 movie release card.…

This tender and compellingly understated Israeli drama about a young single mother and her sick child is saved from the mawkishness of such fare as…

Pop video pioneer & documentarian Julien Temple brings his usual bricolage brio and sense of mischief to this rousing portrait of Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan.…

First things first: this biopic of Helen Reddy was scheduled for release before her death on 29th September. Alas, this rote and lifeless retelling is not a great memorial.…

Actor-turned-director Craig Roberts’ debut feature is a bold but puzzling darkly comic portrait of a woman with mental health issues that are exacerbated by her dysfunctional family.…

As well as feature films such as ‘Presque Rien’ and ‘Going South’, French director Sébastien Lifshitz has made a number of highly-acclaimed studies of queer subjects.…

British, Cambodian-born writer-director Hong Khaou’s follow-up to his under-appreciated debut, ‘Lilting’ is a meditative and understated study of rootlessness and memory…

While it deals with distressing subject matter, this British drama from Sarah Gavron, director of ‘Suffragette’ and ‘Brick Lane’, is maybe the most effervescent and rousing picture of the year, thanks in no small part to its extraordinary, mostly newcomer…

This bruising New Zealand-set drama, set over a thirty-year period, chronicles three stages in the life of Danny, a white Kiwi from a middle-class family who becomes a member of the titular gang. …

British writer-director-star Omoshaybi’s feature debut is both a sombre social realist-style depiction of two twentysomethings struggling to make ends meet and stay on track in contemporary Portsmouth…

Released over here presumably to coincide with the twentieth(!) anniversary of Matthieu Kassovitz’s incendiary ‘La Haine’, Lady Ly’s 2018 debut feature...…

Made, remarkably, with a crew consisting of at-risk sixteen-twenty year olds from impoverished communities around Brazil, as part of a project supported by UNICEF...…

Thanks to their considerable commercial success and a heavily-invested online fanbase, the release of a Christopher Nolan picture always comes with high expectations. …