Alexander Payne follows up The Descendants with a bittersweet road-trip into old America.
A teen rite of passage drama with a political twist from French maestro Olivier Assayas.
A lost missive from from the New Hollywood explosion shows a new side of its star Jack Nicholson.
The Wolfpack are back for some misc Tex-Mex high-jinx in order to get Zak Galifianakis to the nut hatch.
Get teary all over again with this beautiful reissue of Isao Takahata's lesser-seen Ghibli gem.
Baz Luhrmann goes head-to-head with F. Scott Fitzgerald's Jazz-era masterwork. But who comes out on top?
The chase/stunt/joke formula is played to diminishing returns in the latest instalment of this 18-wheeler franchise.
By Lewis Bazley
This portrait of iconic '60s stickman Ginger Baker fails to separate the man from the legend.
Matthew McConaughey's sublime transformation into A Serious Actor continues apace with this ripping Souther thriller.
Living on the edge: Poverty and tourism are at the centre of this absorbing doc.
Harrowing doesn't quite do justice to this ripped-from-the-headlines family saga.
By Ashley Clark
Riz Ahmed delivers the performance of his career in this doleful terrorism drama.
Savour this restoration of Roberto Rossellini's 1954 moderist masterpiece.
By Jordan Cronk
Cumberbitches rest easy: JJ Abrams ably navigates the USS Enterprise through dark skies.
A teen rite of passage drama with a political twist from French maestro Olivier Assayas.
Seek out this brutal and eccentrically funny Russian gangland mini-saga from underloved maverick, Alexey Balabanov.
Matthew McConaughey's sublime transformation into A Serious Actor continues apace with this ripping Souther thriller.
Living on the edge: Poverty and tourism are at the centre of this absorbing doc.
The first feature film from Austin-based animation powerhouse, Don Hertzfeldt, is a rapturous joy to behold.
Nimble and breezy NYC 'graf' caper from up-and-coming directorial talent, Adam Leon.
Jack Black gets serious (but not that serious) in this sparkling black comedy from Richard Linklater.
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Paul Wright flies the Union Jack on the Croisette with his energetic, if flawed debut feature.
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It's time to meet the devil. Nicolas Winding Refn and Ryan Gosling reteam to take us on a strange and spectacularly violent journey to hell.
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Claire Denis' new film may not be playing in the Cannes competition, but that doesn't prevent it from being a masterpiece.
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Japanese maverick Takashi Miike's high-concept cop thriller failed to deliver a killer blow to this year's competition.
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Italy's Paolo Sorrentino returns to Cannes with a glittering, exhilarating, if entirely oblique existential odyssey.
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David Lowery's poetic period romance and Clio Barnard's gritty northern fable each offer their own distinct take on love, loss and companionship.
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The Coen brothers return with another effortlessly brilliant comedy, this one set in the '60s New York folk scene.
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Ryan Coogler's Sundance darling was a major talking point at Cannes this week, but did it live up to the hype?
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The director of A Separation has done it again with a rich, harrowing and humane family drama.
The Mud writer/director talks us through his top filmmaking tips.
The master of Hollywood mirth has gone all serious with his role in Richard Linklater’s brilliant Bernie. But LWLies finds that he’s still committed to the funny.
By Matt Thrift
The Evil Dead director reveals how set about putting flesh on his R-rated reimagining of Sam Raimi's cult favourite.
The director of Last Tango In Paris and The Conformist talks butter, De Niro's package and the spiritually consoling properties of filmmaking.
Her mother was a soap star and she smoked cigarettes with her history teacher. So how did Dominga Sotomayor make one of the best debut features of recent times?
The Spring Breakers director reveals how trap rap, trash TV and Britney Spears all inspired his brilliantly deranged teen romp.
The French writer/director discusses his new film In The House, his friendship with Eric Rohmer and the joy of working with Anglo-Saxon actresses.
By Nick Hasted
With his pulp noir classic Point Blank back in cinemas, the legendary British filmmaker looks back over his extraordinary career.
By Matt Thrift
The Italian director discusses his follow-up to Gomorrah and the ills of reality television.
By Leigh Singer
With the recent release of the poster for Nicolas Winding Refn’s Only God Forgives, what better time to revisit the director's urgent and uncompromising debut?
The female body is the incendiary focus of Catherine Breillat’s tenth feature.
Toshio Matsumoto’s feature debut from 1969 is a tapestry of transgression.
David Bowie cements his status as a spaceman in Nicolas Roeg’s extraterrestrial tragedy.
With Tarantino’s forthcoming Django Unchained the talk of the town we take a look at the film that gave it its name.
The great Sam Fuller takes us deep into the mouth of madness in this towering thriller from 1963.
Georges Franju’s monstrous masterpiece delivers horror sans face but with a huge heart.
Ti West’s (oc)cult chiller reminds us that the 1980s were a truly frightening time.
Revenge is once again the dish of the day in Park Chan-wook’s blisteringly inventive thriller.
