A tremendously urgent social realist work with a strong emotional core, blessed by Loach’s unadulterated approach to simplicity.
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I, Daniel Blake (2016)
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Tag / 2016
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Sully (2016)
Not a great film by any measure, this oddly-structured dramatization and investigative inquiry into the ‘Miracle on the Hudson’ incident is a mildly-affirming work by Clint Eastwood.
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Silence (2016)
The film operates with an ambitious canvas, unfolding with stately elegance, but it is Scorsese’s existential dissection of Christian theology that lends it its thought-provoking, even compassionate, power.
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Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)
A fun and quirky out-in-the-wilderness movie with delightful all-round performances.
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Things to Come (2016)
Backed by an effective if nuanced performance by the great Isabelle Huppert, this drama says quite a fair bit about how contemplation and self-reflection might help us to accept the curveballs that life throws at us.
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Age of Shadows, The (2016)
Crafted with operatic scale and striving for an epic-ness that its subject matter necessitates, but ultimately feels overdrawn to work powerfully.
Road to Mandalay, The (2016)
An excellent low-key drama about the perils of working in a foreign country as an illegal immigrant, directed with assurance and confident pacing by rising filmmaker Midi Z.
