thriller The Usual Suspects 23 Nov 2020Nov 23, 2020 "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist" ★★★★ Bryan Singer's (X-Men, Bohemian Rhapsody) neo-noir thriller The Usual Suspects (1995) got its title from…
romance Happy Together 20 Nov 2020Nov 20, 2020 "Turns out lonely people are all the same" ★★★★★ Wong Kar-wai's Hong Kong romance Happy Together (1997) stores most of its meaning in its title. The English translation was inspired…
comedy Paulette 18 Nov 2020Nov 18, 2020 "I feel like I'm changing. At my age, that's scary." ★★★ In her last film before passing away, Bernadette Lafont (The Mother and The Whore, 1973) proves her legacy as…
thriller The Girl in the Fog 16 Nov 2020Nov 16, 2020 "The devil's greatest flaw is his vanity" ★★★★★ Donato Carrisi not only penned the 2015 novel that inspired the Italian psychological thriller The Girl in the Fog (Italian: La ragazza…
drama The Wife 13 Nov 2020Nov 14, 2020 "The public can't stomach bold prose from a woman" ★★★★★ The dazzling appeal of Björn L. Runge's drama The Wife (2017) rests in Glenn Close's reflections on her character, which…
animation The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales 11 Nov 2020Nov 11, 2020 "Let it blossom, let it flow. That's life." ★★★★★ Told in a quaint, almost Aesopian way, Benjamin Renner’s The Big Bad Fox (French: Le Grand Méchant Renard et autres contes, 2017)…
horror The Hole in the Ground 6 Nov 2020Nov 8, 2020 "They swing from monsters to angels and back again in the blink of an eye" ★★ There is something undeniably creepy about the bleak stares of children, whose mothers are…
romance Vita & Virginia 4 Nov 2020Nov 8, 2020 "If you leave me stranded, I will hurt you" ★★★ Chanya Button's biographical romantic drama Vita & Virginia (2018) portrays the love affair between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sachville-West, which…
drama Metamorphoses 2 Nov 2020Nov 8, 2020 "Mouths are gateways to the soul" ★★★ Christophe Honoré's Metamorphoses (2014) is an ambitious project aiming to transform the massive and multifaceted magnum opus of the Roman poet Ovid (comprised of…
comedy Toc Toc 28 Oct 2020Nov 8, 2020 "That's why I'm here. To be reprogrammed." ★★★★★ Toc Toc (2017), the Spanish comedy written and directed by Vicente Villanueva, is based on Laurent Baffie's 2005 French play of the…
drama Pity 26 Oct 2020Nov 8, 2020 "And then people stop pitying you. They get tired." ★★★★ After his debut film L in 2011, Greek director Babis Makridis’ second feature film explores the raw emotion of grief…
drama The Emperor of Paris 23 Oct 2020Nov 8, 2020 "Serve your country or remain mediocre" ★★★★ Jean-François Richet's 2018 historical drama The Emperor of Paris (French: L'Empereur de Paris) puts a modern spin on the tale of the historical…
sci-fi Cargo 21 Oct 2020Nov 8, 2020 "It's incredibly cold here. You could hardly imagine it." ★★★ Switzerland produced its first dystopian sci-fi film under the direction of Ivan Engler and Ralph Etter in 2009, claiming a place…
thriller Eastern Promises 19 Oct 2020Nov 8, 2020 "Anger is dangerous. It makes people do stupid things." ★★★★ Congruent with David Cronenberg's other projects, such as The Fly (1986) or Dead Ringers (1988), the 2007 British-Canadian co-production Eastern…
horror Haze 16 Oct 2020Nov 8, 2020 "A dream of being awake?" ★★★★ Best known for his cyberpunk films Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) and Vital (2004), Japanese director Shinya Tsukamoto masterfully switches between different roles in his…
romance Below Her Mouth 14 Oct 2020Nov 8, 2020 "I'm going to starve to death in your bed" ★★★★ April Mullen's Canadian erotic romance Below Her Mouth (2016) is known for its all-female ensemble, with the film being written,…
horror Escape Room 12 Oct 2020Nov 8, 2020 "Surviving is a choice. Make yours." ★★★ Following the tragic escape room disaster that claimed the lives of five teenage girls in a blazing fire, it's no wonder that the…
drama Sleeping Beauty 9 Oct 2020Nov 8, 2020 "Some people fake their deaths. I'm faking my life." ★★★ Do not let the title of this Australian erotic drama mislead you. Ten seconds into the trailer, you will be…
drama The Wild Pear Tree 3 Oct 2020Nov 8, 2020 "Who says free will is free? Even if it was, how could you trust it?" ★★★★★ Acclaimed Turkish film director Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Once Upon A Time in Anatolia, 2011)…
comedy The Commitments 30 Sep 2020Nov 8, 2020 "The Irish are the blacks of Europe, Dubliners are the blacks of Ireland, and the North Siders are the blacks of Dublin." ★★★★★ Alan Parker's The Commitments (1991) offers a…
drama Taste of Cherry 27 Sep 2020Nov 19, 2020 "When you're unhappy, you hurt other people, too" ★★★★ Iranian films do not necessarily get the attention they deserve, unless they are featured in renowned international award competitions. Perhaps this…
horror Slaughterhouse Rulez 24 Sep 2020Nov 8, 2020 "This is war. No, this is Sparta." ★★★ Bringing back the comedic duo from Edgar Wright's Shaun of the Dead (2004) sounds like the greatest idea since sliced bread, enriching…
romance Palm Trees in the Snow 18 Sep 2020Nov 8, 2020 "Life is a tornado. Peace, fury...and then peace again." ★★★★★ Fernando González Molina's Spanish romantic drama Palm Trees in the Snow (Spanish: Palmeras en la nieve, 2015) is based on…
sci-fi Advantageous 15 Sep 2020Nov 8, 2020 "Humans can only grasp change at a rate they've experienced" ★★★ In an interview with Variety, Jacqueline Kim, who co-wrote the 2015 sci-fi drama Advantageous with the film's director Jennifer…
drama Arctic 9 Sep 2020Nov 8, 2020 "Don't worry, they'll be here tomorrow - or the day after tomorrow - don't worry" ★★★★ It's no surprise that when discussing Joe Penna's Icelandic survival drama Arctic (2018) with…
action The International 3 Sep 2020Nov 8, 2020 "Sometimes a man can meet his destiny on the road he took to avoid it" ★★ Tom Tykwer's 2009 action thriller The International was inspired by the Bank of Credit…
drama The Devil’s Mistress 24 Aug 2020Nov 8, 2020 "War is the most shameful thing on earth, whichever side one is on" ★★ To dub or not to dub? That is the question for the Czech film industry. Perhaps…
thriller Children of Men 18 Aug 2020Nov 8, 2020 "Everything is a cosmic battle between faith and chance" ★★★ Alfonso Cuarón's dystopian thriller Children of Men (2006), based on P. D. James' The Children of Men (1992), presents a…
comedy A Perfect Day 14 Aug 2020Nov 8, 2020 "Many people hate foreigners because they come with war" ★★★★★ The Spanish dark comedy-drama A Perfect Day (Spanish: Un Día Perfecto, 2015), written and directed by Fernando León de Aramoa,…
romance Jodhaa Akbar 4 Aug 2020Nov 8, 2020 "Water and ambition have one thing in common. They are ever-swelling." ★★★★ Ashutosh Gowariker's epic historical romance Jodhaa Akbar (2008) is not only a production of inconceivable proportions, but it…
thriller The Model 28 Jul 2020Nov 8, 2020 "I need you to be real bitches on this one" ★★★★ In the Danish thriller drama The Model (2016), director Mads Matthiesen takes a nosedive into the generally glamourised world…
sci-fi Multiplicity 21 Jul 2020Nov 8, 2020 "I trust him like I trust myself" ★★★★ Harold Ramis' (Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day) American sci-fi comedy Multiplicity (1996) takes the workaholic father trope and makes it do somersaults, spinning an…
horror Train to Busan 18 Jul 2020Nov 8, 2020 "Sorry, but you're infected" ★★★★★ Yeon Sang-ho's South Korean action-horror Train to Busan (2016) became the highest-grossing Korean film in Malaysia, Hong Kong and Singapore. And, seeing as its sequel…
drama Chicken with Plums 15 Jul 2020Nov 8, 2020 "Life is a breath, life is a sigh. It is this sigh that you must seize." ★★★★ Chicken with Plums (2011) is a lesser known drama created by acclaimed directors Marjane…
comedy Ordinary Happiness 13 Jul 2020Nov 8, 2020 "Saturday night women, who stand out on Sunday mornings" ★★★★ The essence of Danielle Luchetti's Italian comedy Ordinary Happiness (2019) is enclosed in the film's original title, Momenti di Trascurabile…
romance Atonement 10 Jul 2020Nov 8, 2020 "How old do you have to be before you know the difference between right and wrong?" ★★★★★ After working together on Pride & Prejudice (2005), Keira Knightley and director Joe…
thriller Open Your Eyes 29 Jun 2020Nov 8, 2020 “It’s not important what you see, but what I see. It’s my dream.” ★★★★★ Everyone seems to know Cameron Crowe's Vanilla Sky (2001), starring Tom Cruise and Penelope Cruz, but what about the…
romance Indiscreet 26 Jun 2020Nov 8, 2020 "There is no sincerity like a woman telling a lie" ★★★★ Stanley Donen's Indiscreet (1958) not only reunited Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman after their work in Hitchcock's Notorious (1946),…
Series Crashing 19 Jun 2020Nov 8, 2020 "I sometimes look up lesbian porn" ★★ With Fleabag (2016 - 2019) and Killing Eve (2018 - present) hailed as two of the wittiest shows on our TVs, it's unlikely…
drama Loving Vincent 12 Jun 2020Nov 8, 2020 "You want to know so much about his death, but what do you know of his life?" ★★★★★ This 2017 experimental animated biographical drama about the life of Vincent van…
animation Princess Mononoke 10 Jun 2020Nov 8, 2020 "Cut off a wolf's head and it still has the power to bite" ★★★★★ A masterpiece that needs no introduction is this 1997 Japanese animated fantasy war film, written and…
comedy Death at a Funeral 27 May 2020Nov 8, 2020 "We're all just thrown in here together, in a world full of chaos and confusion. A world full of questions and no answers." ★★★★ Contrary to lukewarm - or even…
comedy Mindhorn 23 May 2020Nov 8, 2020 "This isn't the Bronx. This is the Isle of Man!" ★★★★★ I have never had a hard time rating a film before - then came Mindhorn. Not only was I…
fantasy Paradise Hills 19 May 2020Nov 14, 2020 "This place is a lie" ★★ Some people would argue that endings are far more important than beginnings. After all, it's the aftertaste that must make us crave the experience…
drama Jungle 17 May 2020Nov 8, 2020 "The jungle shows us what we really are" ★★★★★ As impressive as the artistic performance was, witnessing Leonardo DiCaprio writhing around in The Revenant (2015) for three hours made me…
