Movie Reviews Post-war Leningrad comes to vivid life in Russian stunner Beanpole Filmmaker Kantemir Balagov is only 28, and his grasp of the period’s nightmarish extremes is remarkable.
Movie Reviews Homage-laden The Whistlers is fast, funny, and it doesn't blow This clever little item never meta noir it didn’t like.
Movie Reviews Annette Bening steals the show in an otherwise patchy Hope Gap Some terrific acting brings needed flavour to an undercooked story.
Movie Reviews To Live To Sing offers an operatic take on a fast-changing China Director Johnny Ma's latest observes a Sichuan-opera troupe on the verge of collapse.
Movie Reviews Vitalina Varela turns a succession of striking images into a taxing two hours Director Pedro Costa clearly has affection for his distraught, impoverished subjects, but there's a hint of "othering".
Movie Reviews Sorry We Missed You delivers an on-time blow to the gig economy Now that the workers own the means of production—a.k.a. the gig economy—the struggle is a damn sight worse.
Movie Reviews Steve Coogan's Greed takes a big bite out of the billionaire class The blinding whiteness of capitalism and Steve Coogan’s teeth vie for dominance in this timely satire.
Movie Reviews The latest version of Emma. is an oddly punctuated muddle Ana Taylor-Joy stars in the newest but definitely not best take on the Jane Austen classic.
Movie Reviews The Twentieth Century peers inside the warped cabinet of Mackenzie King Behold Dan Beirne as Canada’s weirdest ever prime minister.