Reviews

Dir/scr. Michel Franco | Mexico/France | 86 mins. Michel Franco delivers a blistering arthouse thriller that pictures a potential cataclysmic recompense for Mexico's class divide. After Lucia, Chronic and April’s Daughters were all...

Dir: Paul Schrader | Cast: Oscar Isaacs, Willem Dafoe, Tye Sheridan, Tiffany Haddish | US Thriller 120’ Paul Schrder’s latest thriller turns on a ‘one more trick before retiring’  premise. Oscar...

Wri/Dir: Charles Hammer Cast: Beckett Bould, Jennie Stevens, Norman Astridge, Jenny Morgan | UK 53' Black Diamonds was made by working miner and amateur filmmaker Charles Hanmer "without the usual Studio...

Dir/Wri: Ivan Fund | Cast: Alfredo Castro, Mara Bestelli, Marcelo Subiotto, Marcel Alvarez | Drama Argentina, Chile, Spain 87’ Alfredo Castro stars in this enigmatic and rather wistful ecologically themed drama that...

Dir: Daniel Draper | UK Doc, 89' Daniel Draper makes the Toxteth area of Liverpool cinematic in his summery trip through the streets of the neighbourhood known 50 years ago for...

DirWri: Yuri Ancarani | Cast: Daniele Barison, Bianka Berényi, Maila Dabala, Alberto Tedesco | Italian Fantasy Drama, 100' Unfolding serenely in a suave jazzy vibe this splashy narrative-slim hyperrealist Venetian love...

Wri/Dir: Jane Campion | Benedict Cumberpatch, Jesse Plemons, Kirsten Dunst, Kodi Smit-McPhee | Western drama, 125’ Jane Campion’s Oscar-winning drama The Piano defines arthouse film and remains seared to the collective...

Dir.: Thomas Kruithof; Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Reda Kateb, Naidra Ayadi, Jean-Paul Bordres, Vincent Garayer; France 2021, 98 min. Isabelle Huppert is the guiding light of this socio-political drama that centres on...

Dir.: Michèle Stephenson; Documentary with Rosa Iris Diendomi Alvarez, Gladys Feliz-Pimental, Teofilo Murat; USA/Canada/Dominican Republic 2020, 97 min. Stateless, a documentary debut for Canadian writer/producer Michèle Stephenson, follows the turbulent lives of...