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  • Rams

    Writer/director Grímur Hákonarson’s Rams is a film in which the setting in many ways dictates...

  • Bolshoi Babylon

    Bolshoi Babylon starts with beauty. Images of ballet dancers fill the screen and through them...

  • Patience, Patience, You’ll Go to Paradise

    “Patience, patience, you’ll get to heaven,” is...

  • Ip Man 3

    After the acclaim received by Ip Man and Ip Man 2, Wilson Yip’s Ip Man...

  • Innocence of Memories

    The collaboration between noted British filmmaker Grant Gee (best known for the 1998...

  • The Assassin

    Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien has a reputation for the extravagant. The celebrated filmmaker...

  • Breakdown

    British director Jonnie Malachi’s gangster pastiche Breakdown is a vicious mongrel of a movie,...

  • The Revenant

    The Revenant, directed by Alejandro G Iñárritu, is being released one year after Iñárritu’s...

  • The Big Short

    The Big Short is like a “cookie filled with arsenic” – to quote Burt Lancaster...

  • Dragon Blade

    Dragon Blade opens with an aerial shot capturing the grand expanse of the Silk Road,...

  • Creed

    When Creed was released last November in the US, Sylvester Stallone was keen to expel...

  • Paranoid Girls

    In the high-stakes world of fashion, anything could happen – but very little does. Ana,...

  • The Ice and the Sky

    Luc Jaquet returns to the Antarctic after his stunning documentary March of the Penguins...

  • Partisan

    The story of a deadly cult and its enigmatic leader, Ariel Kleiman’s Partisan is a...

  • At Any Price

    Set among the sprawling cornfields of rural Iowa, At Any Price seeks to explore issues...

  • Spotlight

    A film in which the Catholic Church is the villain, challenged by a team of...

  • Room

    Room is the dramatic tale of a mother and son (Joy and Jack), forced to...

  • Joy

    “I don’t need a prince”, say a determined and imaginative young Joy at the beginning...

  • The Hateful Eight

    Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight opens with a remarkable image: Samuel L Jackson’s...

  • Sleeping with Other People

    Writer/director Leslye Headland made waves with her debut, Bachelorette, and returns...

  • The Danish Girl

    The unimaginable feeling of freedom is beautifully encapsulated in Tom Hooper’s film about one...

  • Yakuza Apocalypse

    For a movie about Japanese gangster vampires, Yakuza Apocalypse is remarkably dull. At least at...

  • The Supreme Price

    This award-winning documentary on the Nigerian political landscape since the country’s...

  • Daddy’s Home

    Directed and co-written by Sean Anders (Horrible Bosses 2, Dumb and Dumber To), Daddy’s Home...