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Set during the declining years of communism in Bratislava this sharply written tale of one teacher’s abuse of power in a local school skilfully critiqu... Read more »

Disney’s latest animation is an enjoyable neo-noir buddy cop comedy that will likely entertain children and adults alike thanks to a steady stream of g... Read more »

Alexander Sokurov’s latest is a complex and intermittently absorbing film about the Louvre museum in Paris and its colourful history from the late Rena... Read more »

Following Marvel comics from its near collapse in the mid-90s to its later success and eventual acquisition by Disney, this French documentary remains conten... Read more »

This modest but heartfelt documentary follows Uisdean as he returns home from 16 years in prison to care for his elderly father in his isolated Highland cott... Read more »

Based on an astonishing true story, Pablo Trapero’s taut crime thriller follows Arquimedes Puccio – an avuncular remnant of Argentina’s mil... Read more »

The film begins at a remote border checkpoint in the Chihuahuan desert. We watch as the three agents posted kill time between the infrequent passing of cars ... Read more »

Few films are as drenched in fear, anger and desperation as Night and the City. It was Jules Dassin’s first film in exile from America after being blac... Read more »

Gabe Polsky’s compelling film about the world-beating Soviet ice hockey team that dominated the sport from 1954 to 1991 is a swift and incisive examina... Read more »

Taking its name from the Suburra quarter in Ancient Rome – a place populated with taverns and brothels where criminals and politicians met to conduct b... Read more »

Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet's cult classic The City of Lost Children comes to Blu-ray It’s Christmas Eve and a young child beams as Santa slides ... Read more »

Produced by Jeff Nichols, this flawed but promising feature length debut by Rachel Lambert has much in common with his tales of familial strife in the Deep S... Read more »

Just as the punk rock scene was taking off in the UK, another like-minded movement was occurring in comics. 2000AD – best known for Judge Dredd &n... Read more »

Pink String and Sealing Wax's setup suggests a juicy potboiler but this melodrama from Robert Hamer fails to integrate its subplots Victorian Brighton is th... Read more »

This follow-up to 2013’s Mystery Road proves an equally compelling slice of Outback Noir from Australian director Ivan Sen. Detective Jay Swan &n... Read more »

Adapted from two novels by Tibetan writer Tashi Dawa, Soul on a String is the latest from Chinese director Zhang Yang and a companion piece to his previous f... Read more »

Returning to narrative features after his last two documentaries, Taiwan-based Burmese filmmaker Midi Z directs his attention towards a pair of illegal Burme... Read more »

Produced by Amicus Productions – Hammer Films's big rival – and featuring Hammer’s two most recognisable stars, Peter Cushing and Christoph... Read more »

Taking its cue from its title – which manages to be both metaphorical and resolutely literal – Belgian writer-director Tom Geens’ latest fe... Read more »

King Hu’s visionary Ming Dynasty epic stands as one of the cornerstones of the wuxia genre. Set in 14th century China, the story sees a young painter n... Read more »

Scott Christopherson and Brad Barber's Peace Office is a timely documentary investigating the militarisation of law enforcement in America’s police for... Read more »

Luchino Visconti is a contradiction. He was an Italian aristocrat and a communist, and a celebrated opera director who directed Italy’s first neo-reali... Read more »

After directing Kiss Me Deadly, his ferocious and mysterious 1955 thriller, Robert Aldrich began adapting this play from Clifford Odets about the d... Read more »

It could have been different. Had audiences known what to make of Arthur Penn’s homage to French New Wave cinema on its release in 1965, it could have ... Read more »

Before CGI there was Ray Harryhausen. The stop-motion maestro and his fantastical beasts brought a level of visual spectacle to the screen rarely seen at the... Read more »

The best films to watch this week on the big screen, the small screen and your laptop screen, including Taika Waititi's joyous Hunt for the Wilderpeople and ... Read more »

From The Hateful Eight to the new Ghostbusters, these are the films we're most looking forward to in 2016 The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino) Released 8 ... Read more »

Once again our writers draw lines in the cinematic sand to choose 2015's essential films. Our top ten has a curious gender divide: the male protagonists (The... Read more »

24 City (2008) Dir: Jia Zhangke While many of Jia Zhangke’s modern classics have managed to provoke the Chinese ruling party, 24 City pissed off... Read more »