Reviews

Dir: Phyllida Loyd | UK Drama, 97' It certainly helps to have friends in high places according to this utopian crowdpleaser that sees an abused wife and mother making a new...

Director: Nicholas Ray  Writer: Philip Jordan. Cast: Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge, Scott Brady, Ward Bond, Ernest Borgnine, Royal Dano, John Carradine, Ben Coope | 110min  | Western | US Nicholas...

Dir.: Teemu Niki; Cast: Petri Poikolainen, Marjaana Maijala, Samuli Jaskio, Rami Rusinen; Finland 2021, 81 min. The Finns are well known for their deadpan humour and this latest  from Teemu Niki...

Dir: Aleksey Chupov, Natasha Merkulova | Cast: Yuriy Borisov, Timofey Tribuntsev, Aleksandr Yatsenko | USSR Drama 120' A muscular yet strangely poetic drama suffused with human emotion by Russian directing duo...

Dir: Bogdan George Petri | Cast: Ioana Bugarin, Emanuel Parvu, Cezar Antal, Valentin Popescu | Drama, 118' Bogdan George Petri follows his sweaty murder story Unindentified, with another discursive crime drama...

Dir/scr: Potsy Ponciroli. US. 2021. 99 mins. There are nods to Peckinpah in this spare but rather lacklustre western that eventually catches fire in a coruscating showdown after a series of...

Dir.: Ciro de Caro; Cast: Rosa Palasciano; Valerio Di Benedetto, Fabrizio Ciavoni, Cristian Di Santis, Mattheo Quinzi, Annalisa Lori; Italy 2021, 109 min. This slow-burning and sensitive drama explores the overwhelming...

Dir: Marco Martone | Cast: Toni Servillo Toni Servillo is the star turn in theatre director Mario Martone's resplendent portrait of Neopolitan comic theatre legend Eduardo Scarpetta, making its bow here...

Dir: Aditya Vikram Sengupta | Cast Sreelekha Mitra, Shayak Roy, Bratya Basu, Arindam Ghosh, Satrajit Sarkar, Anirban Chakrabarti | India, France, Norway – 129’ – 2021 – Bengali Aditya Vikram Sengupta's third feature...