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Philip (Schwartzman) is the man you'll love to hate. Ike (Pryce) is the man he could become. They are both tortured, selfish literary geniuses and Moss, Ritter and de La Baume are the women who suffer for...

Shrew’s Nest is a shrieking bloody mess of a film that just about clings onto enough sanity to tell a compelling and sinister story. Montse (Gómez) is too afraid to leave her house and when an injured...

Dancing Arabs’s greatest strength is the way it recognises and respects the painfully irreconcilable divide between opposing cultures – in this case Israel and Palestine. There is kindness and humanity...

Death leads to dubious love in this endlessly inventive delight that pays no regard to traditional genre boundaries. Directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead send bereaved lead Evan (Lou Taylor Pucci) on...

Look no further for an illustration of how film can fruitfully articulate a fragmented national psyche. Charlie’s Country conveys a plethora of perspectives with astonishing ambition.  The writers squeeze...

Yann Demange’s feature debut relentlessly shifts from ambient tension to blunt horror time and time again, in what must be 2014’s most flagrant display of up-and-coming British talent. ‘71’s erratic...

Sex and love as toxic to one another - such is the bizarre dichotomy put forth by The Duke of Burgundy. Peter Strickland’s latest in a string of all-enveloping exploitation subgenres meticulously burrows...

Camp X-Ray establishes its identity with a vividly kinetic start, adeptly unveiling the Guantanamo Bay locale where soldiers “defend freedom”. The film intrigues with its subtlety and style, conveying...

Blue is the Warmest Color’s reputation precedes it, for its graphic depiction of lesbian sex if not its Palme d’Or win earlier this year. But step over the controversy, and what you’ll find is a very...

James Gandolfini’s final bow is an impeccably performed, hugely likeable, entirely naturalistic romantic comedy for grown-ups. Avoiding the usual pitfalls and pratfalls of the genre, Holofcener’s...

"I think a future flight should include a poet, a priest and a philosopher . . . we might get a much better idea of what we saw." - Michael Collins, the pilot of Apollo 11, describing his views from the...

The two universal questions surrounding the Lance Armstrong saga are: How did it go on for so long, and why did he do it? Packed with frank admissions from nearly all parties involved, the film thrives when...

With the opening of the 57th BFI London Film Festival fast approaching, we take a quick look at the films we'll definitely be covering this year. Courtesy of Regency Enterprises 12 Years A Slave Dir:...