Featuring an exceptional performance by Tom Hardy, Lawless is an assured and entertaining crime-thriller from John Hillcoat that is also very violent and bloody.
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Featuring an exceptional performance by Tom Hardy, Lawless is an assured and entertaining crime-thriller from John Hillcoat that is also very violent and bloody.
Another commanding performance by Daniel Day-Lewis lifts this uncharacteristically slow-paced and talky Spielberg film from being too self-absorbed in its historical importance.
Oliver Stone is back in business in this brutal crime drama about drug cartels that is also flashy and entertaining.
Petzoldโs strong command of his craft is evident here in this measured and nuanced Stasi anti-thriller featuring a wary female doctor in โ80s East Germany who desires to defect.
Drags a bit too long for its own good, but Vinterberg’s latest remains to be a fairly compelling drama with fine performances.
Another astonishing Haneke film that deals with psychological and philosophical depth the realities of old age.
Colourful characters adorn this emotionally restrained, but immensely quirky Wes Anderson dollhouse drama.
A masterfully thought-out and dreamlike meta-fiction by a remarkable talent of Portuguese cinemaโit is both visually arresting and poetically told, and will leave you in a trance.
Audiard’s direction of his actors is excellent, but the film is marred by his weak handling of tone.
The China that you wonโt see, as Wang Bing observes with tenderness the daily lives of a young girl and her siblings in a poor rural village in Yunnan province.