Containing the hallmarks of great sci-fi fantasy movies, this enthralling but underseen animation from the โFantastic Planetโ director, with art stylings from Mลbius, gives us intergalactic, mind-bending travel, as an urgent rescue crew attempts to reach a boy stranded on a hostile planet.
Sweeping, intimate and emotional, Salles returns to form with his first fiction feature in 12 years as a close-knit family is irreversibly impacted by the Brazilian military dictatorship in the early 1970s.
An exceptional performance from Nicole Kidman sees her play a CEO drawn to playing a game of risque and risk with a young male intern, as this somewhat miscalculated film forces us to question the moral quandaries of professional and sexual domination and submission.
An orphaned brother and sister are separated by child social services in Adam Elliotโs life-affirming if darkly amusing stop-motion animated Australia, where misfits, weirdos and religious fanatics reside.
A work fundamentally rooted in voyeurism and the invasion of personal space in private and in public, Yeoโs part-mystery, part anti-thriller teases us with its form and structure as a young couple tries to find their missing child who has disappeared in mysterious circumstances.
Nondescript and mundane at times, this Oscar-nominated documentary about the black community in Alabama transforms somewhat into a more interesting, free-association piece though it isnโt quite the resoundingly meaningful work of observational, diaristic cinema it thinks it is.
Ralph Fiennes is exceptional as a cardinal who must oversee the selection of a new Pope as skeletons in the closet threaten to derail the voting process, in Bergerโs taut โmystery-thrillerโ that some might feel too highly calibrated in its storytelling.
Things go terribly awry after a jewellery store heist in this visceral and gritty film that is a serious contender for the zeitgeist-iest HK crime-actioner of the โ80s, made with the kind of masculine gusto that seems rare today.
Although its overlong slow-cinema style may alienate some audiences, the filmmakersโ control of mise-en-scene feels assured and reassuring as undocumented migrants face moral questions and exploitation eking out a painful existence in the mountains of Taiwan.
A beautifully animated French drama that focuses on the nuts and bolts of mountain scaling as a Japanese photojournalist hopes to find historical and existential clarity about the exploits of several mountain climbers.
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