Tagged Four Stars 2015

Rambunctious, kinetic, and aggressively styled, Eisenstein in Guanajuato is Peter Greenaway’s best film in years. This tale of Sergei Eisenstein’s sexual awakening in Mexico is overflowing with vim and...

El Club traverses its traumatic themes with lyricism, dark humour and jolting explicitness shaped by a cleverly written and constructed screenplay. It maintains a remarkable atmosphere, instilled by evocative...

In this breezy, 21st century flick, we get a modern day British saviour of the diluted romcom genre. This highly likeable number scores big points through its impressive leads. It's good to see Pegg make a...

Saturated with seventies style, Marseilles’ elegant backdrop provides a proving ground for police magistrate Pierre Michel (Dujardin), and playground for his nemesis, drug-lord Tany Zampa (Lellouche). The...

Funny, bittersweet, heartbreaking and beautiful, Masaan explores its colourful world and its inhabitants' lives with utmost imagination and deftness. Wonderfully balancing the struggles and discoveries of...

A predictably towering performance from Michael Fassbender is excellently supported by Marion Cotillard, and a who’s who cast of the best British actors working today. Biblical in scale, Macbeth is a huge...

A simple story well told, Lamb is a startlingly assured debut feature from writer-director Yaled Zeleke which overcomes the traditional “kids and animals” issue to deliver a warm-hearted and bittersweet...

Chris Rock isn’t quite himself in Top Five. He may be playing a stand-up turned film star, but his character is actually Andre Allen, a man struggling to be taken seriously considering his past in...

Andersson finds meaning in the mundanity of everyday life in this interlocking series of tragicomic vignettes. His reliance on an earthy pastel palette and fixed frames of bland offices and homes grows...

Age of Ultron moonwalks assuredly past Second Album Syndrome, but doesn’t get to be the Avengers’ The Empire Strikes Back. It’s a barnstorming cyclone of spectacle, yet never manages to recapture how...

It's fitting that the seemingly ageless Keanu Reeves should play John Wick. Like its leading man, the film feels unstuck in time; a forgotten '80s classic that would have starred the likes of Stallone or...

Fast & Furious 7 feels like it was written by a 13 year-old on a sugar bender, which is entirely a good thing. James Wan directs glorious action sequences with the manic energy of a Saturday morning...

While We’re Young is a natural progression from Baumbach’s Frances Ha, yet it breaks new ground by using older protagonists to provide a fresh perspective on twentysomething New Yorkers. Meanwhile, it...

Sleekly sensual montages and a wonderfully hypnotic soundtrack set the tone for this stylish documentary. Meanwhile, thoughtful structure and fantastic tempo provide the foundation for an expertly filmed and...

Stories of Our Lives is filmed in stunning black and white. It is a well-constructed display of thoughtful editing and eloquent cinematography. Yet this brave and intimate film is more than just...