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The Stopover’s compelling setup – a group of soldiers returning from a tour of Afghanistan staying in a five-star Cypriot hotel for “decompression” – makes for a scintillating investigation into...

Filipino auteur Brillante Mendoza’s gritty and authentic formal approach on Ma’ Rosa gives us a flavourful and palpable sense of place and community – though the same can’t be said of his characters,...

There's something rather uncinematic about a phone call. They can be used in interesting and dynamic ways, but when much of a film consists of the lead character answering (and sometimes ignoring) her...

The Dardenne brothers’ take on a detective story is highly introverted and moves with a quiet confidence befitting of its heroine – however it lets itself down with an underwhelming resolution and the...

Japanese auteur Hirokazu Koreeda strikes gold yet again with this superlative and poetic portrait of another fractured family unit. Nobody paints for us the highs and lows of familial interaction quite...

About as Almodóvarian as it gets, this adaptation of a trio of Alice Munro stories brings every facet of the Spanish auteur's unmistakeable heightened and melodramatic style. The formula that constitutes...

Sparse and morbid, Apprentice is not the easiest watch, but the questions it raises about morality and mortality make it a gut-wrenching polemic about capital punishment. While the script is a little...

Despite the high watermark set by Starred Up, David Mackenzie betters himself once again with the immensely gratifying western Hell or High Water, a genre hybrid with a rich streak of melancholy but no...

This first-time feature from writer-director Michael O'Shea is both self- and genre-aware - though repeatedly acknowledging its superior forebears in the vampire genre does not equate to doing anything...

Andrea Arnold once again confirms herself as one of - if not the - best British filmmakers working today with her sprawling odyssey of the disenfranchised, American Honey. Formally not so much a...

1. Cannes kicks off with a Woody Allen rape joke The world’s classiest film festival is now underway. Just about anyone you’ve ever heard of is currently lapping up the sun on the French Riviera. The...

Regular ORWAV readers will know how much we love the Cannes Film Festival. We're even returning this year, to cover even more exciting ground than 2015 - and 2015 was pretty exciting. Dheepan won the Palme...

1. Cannes Festival names its jury The 2016 Cannes Film Festival now has itself a jury - nine good film-type people and true - ahead of the start of proceedings on May 11. Joining George Miller, who’ll be...

Despite doing nothing wrong formally, Je Suis un Soldat struggles to delve any deeper than the surface in terms of character, motivation and theme. Je Suis un Soldat's portrayal of black market dog-selling...

Edgy, sharp and witty, Dope quickly and confidently does the legwork of establishing its world and characters, but seemingly struggles to know what to do with them once it’s done. Dope is a hilarious...