Anne Hathaway plays a 40-year-old single mother who embarks on a torrid love affair with a 24-year-old pop star in Michael Showalter's schmaltzy but not without charm rom-com.
In David Leitch's bombastic salute to the Hollywood stunt industry, Ryan Gosling becomes inadvertently embroiled in a nefarious plot while trying to regain the trust of his former lover.
A happily single Georgian woman is forced to reconsider her life of solitude when she falls in love in Elene Naveriani's bittersweet romantic dramedy.
Kristen Stewart and Katy O'Brien are on fire as star-crossed lovers who get into a sweaty mess in Rose Glass's lurid '80s throwback thriller.
Soudade Kaadan’s second feature is truistic yet forceful in examining the complexities of human suffering and confinement through a teenage girl stuck in the thick of the Syrian civil war.
Less Harry Potter and more American Fiction, this politically charged satire is more banal than it first seems.
By Anton Bitel
A pack of hired goons get more than they bargained for in this inventive and nasty evil kid romp.
This Mongolian drama of a poverty-stricken young academic abandoned by his mother makes for a intriguing debut.
A young couple get more than they bargained for when they translate a rare folk ballad in this effective Irish horror.
Maximilien Van Aertryck and Axel Danielson set out to investigate the implications of the camera, from its invention to the present day, with mixed results.
Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist play a trio of tennis players whose lives are inextricably connected in a complicated love triangle.
An Iranian immigrant in Sweden seeks solace in their national wrestling team in this riveting story of internal torture.
Alex Garland's vision of a future America ravaged by conflict is impressively mounted but lacks political bite.
By Rogan Graham
This miserable biopic claims to celebrate the life and music of Amy Winehouse, but instead serves as a ghoulish encapsulation of everything wrong with the music industry and fame machine.
The legendary Spanish filmmaker returns with his first feature film in 32 years, which centres on the strange case of an actor who disappeared under mysterious circumstances.
Dev Patel emerges as a compelling action star in his directorial debut Monkey Man, a scrappy revenge tale set in a fictionalised Indian city where corruption is rife.
Two Senegalese teenagers embark on a perilous journey to Europe in Matteo Garrone's affecting drama about the migrant crisis.
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