Village At The End Of The World (2012)
★★★★☆
Husband and wife team Sarah Gavron and David Katznelson bring the Village At The End Of The World into the limelight of global warming and globalisation.
★★★★
In The Fog / V Tumane (2012)
★★★★☆
Waiting for God, death and peacetime, Sergei Loznitsa’s In The Fog explores innocence, doubt and guilt transformed by war.
Rebellion / L’Ordre et la Morale (2011)
★★★★☆
Restoring law and order in the South Pacific, Mathieu Kassovitz’s Rebellion is a war of words, bullets and cynical politicians.
Love Is All You Need / Den Skaldede Frisør (2012)
★★★★☆
A rom-com for realist romantics, Susanne Bier’s Love Is All You Need sees love blossom alongside life’s trials and tribulations.
The Place Beyond The Pines (2012)
★★★★☆
An infinite circle of fatherhood and wrongdoing, Derek Cianfrance’s The Place Beyond The Pines is a cinematic triptych of masculinity in crisis.
In The House / Dans La Maison (2012)
★★★★☆
Of schoolboy crushes and French assignments, François Ozon’s labyrinthine In The House is an intricate maze of fiction and reality worth getting lost in.
Reality (2012)
★★★★☆
Matteo Garrone’s Reality is a well thought-out satire on fame and the pursuit of celebrity in Berlusconi’s reality TV-obsessed Italy.
The Paperboy (2012)
★★★★☆
Exposing Sixties race relations in the sultry heat of a Florida summer, Lee Daniels’ The Paperboy is a hothouse of lust and violence.
Robot & Frank (2012)
★★★★☆
An unlikely odd-couple relationship between man and robot, Robot & Frank poignantly contrasts human memory and ageing with its computerised counterparts.
Lore (2012)
★★★★☆
Set in 1945 in a Germany coming to terms with defeat, Cate Shortland’s Lore is an intimate and evocative portrait of lost innocence.
Mea Maxima Culpa Silence In The House Of God (2012)
★★★★☆
Through the testimony of signing victims, Alex Gibney’s documentary Mea Maxima Culpa Silence In The House Of God lifts the lid on Church secrecy and child abuse.
No (2012)
★★★★☆
Televising the revolution, Pablo Larrain’s No puts advertising and happiness at the heart of Chile’s campaign to depose Pinochet.
Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
★★★★☆
Released barely a year and a half after the capture and killing of Osama bin Laden, Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty rides high on a wave of political currency.
Jiro Dreams Of Sushi (2011)
★★★★☆
Jiro Dreams of Sushi is a beguiling and beautifully crafted documentary focusing on the life of Japanese sushi chef Jiro Ono.