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Faux-eco-friendly corporations. Workplace discrimination. Startup culture. Corporate Animals is one trade union song away from a revolutionary call to arms, and all the better for it. Politically speaking,...

After the Wedding cuts through its own melodrama at a clippy pace. Third-act twists are delivered halfway through; director Bart Freundlich is more interested in living in the fallout than trying to shock you...

You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll cringe at awkward speeches – The Farewell is like any good family wedding, or any good funeral come to think of it. In her sophomore feature, writer-director Lulu Wang...

This film was previously reviewed on 31/05/18 as part of the Sundance London Film Festival. A montage of flailing attempts to ‘diagnose’ homosexuality is only the beginning of the fun that Desiree...

A montage of flailing attempts to ‘diagnose’ homosexuality is only the beginning of the fun that Desiree Akhavan has with the cluelessness of conversion therapy in her sophomore feature The Miseducation of...

After the success of Ain’t Them Bodies Saints (2013), David Lowery reunites Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara in a time-travelling, existential yarn about the dislocation of grief. Questioning why we become...

Ranging from gently witty to laugh-out-loud funny, The Big Sick is a vibrant comedy-drama which always engages despite broadly conventional structure and lack of stylisation. What it lacks in style, it makes...

The grumpy old(er) man comedy is a great tradition. See Alexander Payne’s About Schmidt, or the forthcoming A Man Called Ove for examples of hilarious cantankerousness ultimately giving way to a heartwarming...

In her fourth feature Marianna Palka (known for Good Dick) absurdly illustrates how, by just being in relation to her adulterous husband, society will inevitably judge the behaviour of the woman scorned as...

Crown Heights is the kind of film you don’t always enjoy, but are glad to have seen afterwards. Writer-director Matt Ruskin doesn’t quite do justice to the affecting true life story; the screenplay feels...

A promising premise – a surprise intervention for a failing marriage – is wasted in this patchy relationship comedy from writer, director and star, Clea DuVall. She gets strong individual performances...

https://vimeo.com/90733535 Password: russian At ORWAV we’re no strangers to the bizarre but brilliant works of rising short film director Ben Aston, and Sundance London winner Russian Roulette –...

The Case Against 8 is a never-more-than-ordinary documentary about a never-less-than-extraordinary series of events. Needless, theatricality proves to be its main undoing. In one scene, Ted Olson reads back...

Sara Colangelo's feature debut, Little Accidents, dolefully addresses the personal ramifications of widespread public trauma. Taking place in the small-town setting of Park City, Colangelo...

The Voices is a unique blend of (like as not) mutually-exclusive soundtracks, aesthetics, and genre tropes that curiously coalesce into a surprisingly digestible black romcom. Directed by...