Martha Marcy May Marlene
Writer-director Sean Durkin’s debut feature is subtly, almost perfectly calibrated between idyllic and terrifying, all the way to its chillingly ambiguous... read more...
Flickerfest 2012
The international arm of this year’s Flickerfest tour showcases a worldly grasp of finesse and lingering. In an artform where every second counts,... read more...
Weekend
Russell sits at work with a blistering hangover, repeatedly revising a text to a guy he picked up the night before: “I feel like shit.” Should... read more...
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
<p>Where Ian Fleming’s espionage is flip and glamorous, John Le Carré’s is dreary and cynical; George Smiley is the anti-<em>James Bond</em>.... read more...
Young Adult
Jason Reitman’s dramedy recalls Bad Teacher in its fearless refusal to make its heroine likeable, and Diablo Cody’s shrewd script explores how we... read more...
Vincent Moon, 'An Island' DVD
Parisian filmmaker Vincent Moon has chosen the chamber pop of the stupidly talented Danish band Efterklang for his latest investigation. The film follows... read more...
The Curse of Grong Grong
Grong Grong appeared into my life suddenly, without warning. I assume that’s the way they show up in most people’s lives. I know that many... read more...
The Iron Lady
What better traditional holiday entertainment than a rollicking English pantomime? This political fairytale is seasonably hilarious, and ultra-conservative... read more...
Closer Productions Box Set
With the success of Shut Up Little Man, which screened at Sundance, Sheffield and Edinburgh, Closer Productionsnow know what the jackpot looks like... read more...
The Skin I Live In
Both preposterously serious and blackly playful, Pedro Almodóvar’s melodrama explores how trauma and perversion are literally inscribed on the body.... read more...
Don't Need You - The Herstory Of Riot Grrrl
To understand why Riot Grrrl mattered, you need to know that ’80s punk and hardcore shows were a major sausage fest. Mostly male bands played to... read more...
Attack The Block
English writer-director Joe Cornish (of cult comedy duo Adam and Joe) splashes with a feature film debut that’s just plain fun. It’s the anti-Harry... read more...
Melancholia
I feel strongly that Lars von Trier is fucked in the head and that we should condemn his films’ glorying in women’s psychological (and sometimes physical)... read more...
We Need To Talk About Kevin
Okay, here’s what Eva and Franklin (Tilda Swinton and John C Reilly) need to talk about – how they ended up with a Eurasian kid (Ezra Miller; as... read more...
The Tall Man
The documentary is based on the book, and its season marks the sixth anniversary of Mulrunji’s death. It unfolds as a character-driven crime drama,... read more...
The Debt
John Madden’s Nazi-hunting spy thriller recalls the aphorism, “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” The Debt intertwines... read more...
The Debt
John Madden’s Nazi-hunting spy thriller recalls the aphorism, “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” The Debt intertwines... read more...
Moneyball
Moneyball has all the sports-movie ingredients: an underdog team; a manager haunted by past failures; talented but overlooked players; an amazing true-story... read more...
This Is Not a Film
Panahi wakes. He wanders around his apartment. He watches. He rants. He tells a few jokes. He helps somebody take out the trash. All of this is as rigorously... read more...
Six On The St
Ever watched a Vincent Moon Take Away Show and thought, “Boy, I wish I lived in Paris and could potentially bump into Bon Iver singing acapella by some... read more...
Drive
Pastiche doesn’t always work. But although Nicolas Winding Refn’s neo-noir recalls Risky Business, Blade Runner, Collateral, To Live and Die in LA... read more...
Autoluminescent: Rowland S Howard
Autoluminescent is a film about Rowland S Howard – guitarist, songwriter, artist and an instrumental figure in the Australian rock scene most notably... read more...
Bill Cunningham New York
Over two years, Richard Press tracked the life and work of an impish, bike-riding, octogenarian photographer whose “On the Street” column is a New... read more...
Midnight in Paris
‘Charming’, ‘beguiling’, ‘witty’ and ‘delightful’ spring to mind to describe Woody Allen’s latest... read more...