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Michael Caine's best work in years and a strong supporting cast isn't quite enough to lift the evocative, elegant yet slight Youth beyond the (admittedly absorbing) curio it is. If nothing else, the...

It's not often that a documentary crew goes out to shoot one film but tragic events and political circumstance force them to adapt and create a different film altogether. Sherpa is one such film and is all...

Freud theorised that every son would kill his father, but what happens when the father is already dead? For the illegitimate son of Apollo Creed, the answer is simple: fight his name. Ryan Coogler, an...

In Ariel Kleiman’s Partisan, Vincent Cassel reminds us why he’s one of France’s greatest actors. He’s gained a reputation for playing brash, violent psychopaths, but Gregori - the father figure of an...

Ever the alchemist, Quentin Tarantino remains obsessed with transfiguring a mélange of homages into filmic gold. But the director’s eighth yarn seemingly shares most of its genetics with an Agatha...

We’ve come a long way since the days of Lili Elbe and Gerde Wegener. Transgender issues that made chaos of their lives now have mainstream acceptance, but Hooper’s direction is refreshingly frank about how...

Some things in life remain constant; they might not whisper in our ears day and night, but their fragments remain scattered inside us, under the crust and dust, waiting for a spark to fuse them back...

A nuanced performance from leading man Ben Mendelsohn elevates this by-the-numbers buddy movie into a stuttering character study about good people who do bad things. Taking its cue from classic The Sting,...

Early in Sicario, a shady government operative compares finding a cartel boss to “discovering a vaccine.” It’s a throwaway line, but it resonates in Roger Deakins’ breathtaking (and surely Oscar...

Imagine if one man were responsible for the success of the entire rock ‘n’ roll scene in the ‘60s. Danny Says doesn’t go quite that far, but it does depict Danny Fields, publicist, manager and...

Jia Zhangke continues to chronicle contemporary Chinese society, but this time he looks to the future in a story stretching from 1999 to 2025. Zhangke offers wry humour and class pressures in the...

A Walk in the Woods feels like Planes, Trains and Automobiles in a dressing gown and some comfy slippers. Robert Redford and Nick Nolte make for a wonderfully odd couple, but the script gives them little to...

At the surface, one might expect Containment to be a paint-by-numbers thriller, sticking seven people on one set, winding them up and letting them go; but there's enough finesse in this little indie film to...

This latest effort to adapt the hit video game franchise for the big screen bears more than a passing resemblance, bizarrely, to Mad Max: Fury Road; in that they're both about men of few words who assist a...

A comedy starring the cast of Monty Python and the late Robin Williams - not to mention a smorgasbord of British talent in supporting roles - sounds brilliant on paper, but it only works if you give them funny...