animation When Marnie Was There 23 Feb 2021Feb 23, 2021 "You're my precious secret" ★★★★ Studio Ghibli's 2014 anime drama When Marnie Was There (Japanese: 思い出のマーニー, Marnie of [my] Memories) was the production company's last project before its six-year hiatus,…
thriller Dukhtar 19 Feb 2021Feb 23, 2021 "This state of war is like a sickness. It consumed me." ★★★★ Written and directed by Afia Nathaniel, the Pakistani thriller-drama Dukhtar (Translation from Urdu: Daughter, 2014) struggled for years…
comedy Look Who’s Back 16 Feb 2021Feb 23, 2021 "Do I look like a criminal?" ★★★★ Inspired by the success of Timur Vermes’ 2012 novel, David Wnendt directed the 2015 satirical comedy Look Who's Back (German title: Er ist wieder da).…
action U-571 1 Feb 2021Feb 6, 2021 "Either you succeed in sinking that ship, or you see to it that none of us survive to be captured" ★★★★ Jonathan Mostow's film U-571 (2000) exists in the liminal…
drama Corpus Christi 27 Jan 2021Feb 6, 2021 "You know what we're good at? Giving up on people" ★★★★ Jan Komasa's Corpus Christi (Polish: Boże Ciało) managed to outgrow the Polish borders in 2019, receiving many prestigious awards worldwide,…
action The Wave 22 Jan 2021Feb 6, 2021 "This whole country is one big rock" ★★★★ Roar Uthaug's disaster film The Wave (Norwegian: Bølgen, 2015) depicts an event that is expected to happen in Møre og Romsdal, a…
adventure Embrace of the Serpent 15 Jan 2021Feb 6, 2021 "In this journey he must find out, in solitude and silence, who he truly is" ★★★★★ In his 2015 Colombian adventure drama Embrace of the Serpent (Spanish: El Albrazo de…
drama I Am Kalam 11 Jan 2021Feb 6, 2021 "Do you believe that destiny makes a man, or his actions?" ★★★★ Nila Madhab Panda's Indian drama I Am Kalam (2010) was produced by the charity Smile Foundation, an NGO…
sci-fi Dark City 8 Jan 2021Feb 6, 2021 "Nothing like a little healthy paranoia" ★★★★★ Some films are doomed to obscurity, just like the citizens in Alex Proyas’ Dark City (1998). Subject to the circumstantial time and space…
horror Dead Snow 4 Jan 2021Feb 1, 2021 "We should have gone to the beach, like I told you" ★★★★ Scandinavian cinema is best known for its offbeat humour, dark style and philosophical parametres that stretch both the…
comedy The Unknown Saint 14 Dec 2020Dec 21, 2020 "No one can steal from the Saint" ★★★★ Moroccan director Alaa Edine Aljem’s debut film The Unknown Saint (French: Le miracle du saint inconnu, 2019) builds on the holiness of black…
romance Rafiki 11 Dec 2020Feb 1, 2021 "I wish this was real" ★★★★ Wanuri Kahiu's 2018 romance Rafiki (Swahili for 'friend') was banned in its native Kenya. As the director stated in an interview with TIFF, this…
comedy The Favourite 4 Dec 2020Feb 1, 2021 "We'll make a killer of you yet" ★★★★ Yorgos Lanthimos' dark comedy The Favourite (2018) hones in on one of history's most intricate power plays - one that took place…
thriller Mother 2 Dec 2020Dec 21, 2020 "You and me are one. We've only got each other." ★★★★★ The late 2000s saw a rise in mother-centred thrillers in South Korea. Released after the box office success The…
drama The Salvation 30 Nov 2020Feb 1, 2021 "Never start a fight you can't win" ★★★★ There are very few twists one can subject a western film to these days. Doing so would require the contortion of an…
action Cell 211 25 Nov 2020Dec 21, 2020 "The cure better not be worse than the illness" ★★★★★ After a whole year of conducting research into the realities of prison life by interviewing inmates, their relatives and prison…
thriller The Usual Suspects 23 Nov 2020Dec 21, 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…
drama The Wife 13 Nov 2020Dec 21, 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…
romance Vita & Virginia 4 Nov 2020Dec 21, 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 2020Dec 21, 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…
thriller Eastern Promises 19 Oct 2020Dec 21, 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…
romance Below Her Mouth 14 Oct 2020Dec 21, 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 2020Dec 21, 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 2020Dec 21, 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…
horror Slaughterhouse Rulez 24 Sep 2020Dec 21, 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…
sci-fi Advantageous 15 Sep 2020Dec 21, 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…
comedy Blind Date 12 Sep 2020Dec 21, 2020 "We're stuck together by an architectural anomaly" ★★★★ In a promotional interview with Purepeople, the two stars of Clovis Cornillas' 2015 French romantic comedy Blind Date (French: Un peu, beaucoup,…
sci-fi Tenet 6 Sep 2020Jan 11, 2021 "We all believe we’d run into the burning building. But until we feel that heat, we can never know. You do." ★★★ Christopher Nolan is known for exploring the concept…
action The International 3 Sep 2020Dec 21, 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…
thriller Children of Men 18 Aug 2020Dec 21, 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…
sci-fi Multiplicity 21 Jul 2020Dec 21, 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…
romance Atonement 10 Jul 2020Dec 21, 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 The Invisible Guest 15 Jun 2020Dec 21, 2020 "There will be no salvation without suffering" ★★★★ Picking up from where he left off in The Body, Oriol Paolo directed the Spanish mystery thriller The Invisible Guest (original title:…
drama Loving Vincent 12 Jun 2020Dec 21, 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…
drama 4L 4 Jun 2020Dec 21, 2020 "We're not talking. I don't bother life, and she leaves me alone." ★★ The latest Spanish dramedy featured on Netflix promises a life-changing road trip through the Sahara desert. With…
fantasy Paradise Hills 19 May 2020Dec 21, 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…
fantasy Code 8 11 May 2020Dec 21, 2020 "If you see something that you want, take it" ★ Canadian mid-budget Code 8 (2019) has been on a steady rise in the Netflix Top 10 category for the past…
thriller The Man from Nowhere 7 May 2020Dec 21, 2020 "The ones that live for tomorrow get f***** by the ones living for today" ★★★★★ Long before John Wick restored action films to their former glory in the West, The…
drama Like Father, Like Son 3 May 2020Dec 21, 2020 "Can you really love a child without your blood?" ★★★★★ Childhood seems to be a recurring theme of exploration for Japanese director and screenwriter Hirokazu Kore-eda [Nobody Knows, Still Walking].…
romance Swept Away 1 May 2020Dec 21, 2020 "All rich people are the same. They play funny little games." ★ Times of ongoing quarantine call for a film that serves as an entertaining adventure, light comedy/romance, and a…
romance Adore 30 Apr 2020Dec 21, 2020 "I can't remember ever being this happy. It's scary." ★★★★ We often look for films that carry the sugary scent of a forbidden fruit. We seek out salacious content that…
