Reviews

Dir: Felix van Groeningen | Drama | 110’ | US 2018 Based on a best-selling memoir by journalist David Sheff, BEAUTIFUL BOY explores a teenage boy's descent into crystal meth addiction. It's...

Dir/scr. Marcus Lindeen. Sweden/Denmark/US/Germany. 2018. 97 mins. THE RAFT is Marcus Lindeen's follow up to The Regretters. As another studio-based experimental film it won the top prize at this year's CPH: DOX festival,...

Dirs: ‘Dog Days’(George Taylor), ‘Felines’ (George Taylor), ‘Unchosen’ (Nicholas Cohen, Ben Jacobsen), ‘Club Drunk’ (Mitchell Crawford), ‘Mudan Blossom’ (Qi Zhang, Natalia Casali and Kaki Wong), ‘Pictures’ (Rosanna Lowe), ‘Little Sarah’s...

Dir.: Mike Wiluan; Cast: Yoshi Sudarso, Ario Bayu, Tio Pakusadewo, Reinout Bussemaker, Happy Salma; Indonesia, Singapore 2018, 102 min. Mike Wiluan tries hard to make his homeland's Oscar entry a touchstone...

Dir: Gaspar Noé | Drama | 97' The Argentinian provocateur is now in his fifties but still loves to see the worse in people, as his latest 'thriller' shows. This nihilistic...

In Park City Utah, ROBERT REDFORD and his programmer John Cooper set the indie film agenda for 2019 with an array of provocative new titles. This year's selection has the...

Dir: Robert Guediguian | Cast: Ariane Ascaride, Jean Pierre Darroussin, Anais Demoustier Robinson Stevenin, Yann Tregouet | Drama | France | 107' Robert Guediguian offers a paean to Provence in the...

Dir.: Wash Westmoreland; Cast: Keira Knightley, Dominic West, Denise Gough, Eleanor Tomlinson; USA/UK 2018, 111 min. This early years of French novelist Colette are adapted here for the screen by director...

Dir: Jon S. Baird | Cast: Steve Coogan, John C. Reilly | Comedy Drama When Stan & Ollie begins, the eponymous duo – that is, Laurel and Hardy themselves – are...