Chilean director Sebastián Lelio’s follow-up to his 2013 hit Gloria is a dazzling companion piece that once again focuses on a woman’s resilience in a world whe...
“Gold ruins everything. First the land, then the man.” That’s the gist of Marcelo Gomes’ ambitious historical epic, set in 18th-century Brazil when the South Am...
“No one gets over anything," remarks Stellan Skarsgård’s Max, rekindling with old flame Rebecca years after they last met. He was a fledgling writer, she an ide...
British filmmakers have a recent habit of bringing about canonical additions to UK queer cinema with their debuts. Andrew Haigh’s heartbreaking romance Weekend ...
You can never have too much Isabelle Huppert, but in Barrage, the legendary actress plays a supporting role that perhaps shows you can have too little. It’s a g...
It appears there’s been a conscious effort to de-glamorise this year’s Berlin film festival, rid of the star wattage that recent opening-night films have brough...
Something happened at my midnight public screening in London of Danny Boyle’s sequel to his 1996 smash. A heckler at the back, perhaps influenced by alcohol or ...
André Øvredal’s last feature, the monster mockumentary Trollhunter, was thrillingly irreverent -- a cruelly funny movie that turned Norwegian mythology into a r...
Before David Lynch was a filmmaker, he was a struggling painter, whose lifeblood was to “drink coffee, smoke cigarettes, and paint." That’s what he dubbed "the ...
One of Anton Yelchin’s final screen performances lifts the melancholic ode to one night’s lost passion in Porto, a messy, scattered drama that, for all it...
