Reviews

Dir: Jane Magnusson | Doc | Sweden | 116’ Documentarian Jane Magnusson takes a swipe at Ingmar Bergman’s memory in her sprawling in-depth documentary that marks this year’s centenary of the...

Dir: John Cameron Mitchell | Cast: Nicole Kidman, Elle Fanning, Alex Sharp | 100min | US | Musical RomCom John Cameron Mitchell's absurdly unconvincing 'punk-retro' musical is based on a short...

Dir: Pawel Pawlikowski | Cast| Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Syzc, Agata Kulesza, Cedric Khan, Jeanne Balibar | Drama | Poland This beguilingly sexy and sad paean to disillusioned romantics everywhere...

Dir.: Janis Nords; Cast: Vilis Daudzins, Ieva Puke, Raimonds Celms, Indra Brike; Latvia/Poland/Lithuania 2017, 80 min. After tackling the thorny subject of child crime in his Berlinale Grand Prix winner Mother...

  This year's Cannes Classic sidebar has one or two priceless gems glittering in its antique crown. Apart from well-known legends: Ozu’s Tokyo Story, Hitchcock’s Vertigo, Wilder’s Apartment, Varda’s One Sings,...

Dir : Ali Abbasi | Fantasy Drama | Sweden | 104’ BORDER is one of those bracingly original films. Melding fantasy and folklore while teetering on the edge of Gothic horror...

Writer|Dir: Paul Dano | Cast: Carey Mulligan, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ed Oxenbould | Drama | US | 105’ A teenage boy experiences the breakdown of his parents’ marriage in  Paul Dano’s crisp...

Writer|Dir: A B Shawky | Egypt | Drama | 97’ YOMEDDINE (Judgement Day) is a coming of age road drama where two outcasts discover the harshness of the real world outside...

“You don’t make up for your sins in Church. You do it on the streets. You do it at home.  The rest is bullshit, and you know it” Mean Streets was...