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...

The Revenant premiere: A chat with DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Iñárritu, Anderson and Gleeson on the red carpet

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...