The Birth of a Nation (2016)
★★★★☆
The Birth of a Nation is director Nate Parker’s emotional condemnation of America’s brutal history of slavery through the true story of one man who led a rebellion.
★★★★☆
The Birth of a Nation is director Nate Parker’s emotional condemnation of America’s brutal history of slavery through the true story of one man who led a rebellion.
★★★★☆
Director Amma Asante evokes a powerful interracial love story that threatened the British Empire.
★★★★☆
Jim Jarmusch celebrates the extraordinariness of ordinary life in Paterson, starring Adam Driver.
★★★☆☆
Adapting Philip Roth’s novel, producer turned director James Schamus’ Indignation is a stylish but passionless feast of Fifties melancholia.
In Makoto Shinkai’s haunting Japanese anime, two teenagers swap bodies and lives.
Read MoreA silent masterpiece years ahead of its time. Napoleon by French director Abel Gance has been lovingly restored by Kevin Brownlow, with a new score by Carl Davis.
Read MoreDenis Villeneuve’s Arrival is a highly original, thrilling and mind-boggling take on close encounters.
Read MoreYoung black political activism and idealism in London is revealed in Generation Revolution, a powerful documentary by first-time directors Usayd Younis and Cassie Quarless.
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Daouda Coulibaly’s Wùlu is a must-see, tense, contemporary West African thriller.
Nocturnal Animals, Tom Ford’s mesmerising second feature after the acclaimed A Single Man is a visually stunning and disturbingly gripping examination of the connection…
Read MoreJames Mullinger’s and Mark Murphy’s The Comedian’s Guide to Survival takes the hard-won life lessons of a struggling would-be stand-up and plays them for…
Read MoreA beautiful, very moving animation of Raymond Briggs’ graphic novel Ethel and Ernest, voiced by Jim Broadbent and Brenda Blethyn. It’s a tribute to…
Read MoreSpaceship is a dreamlike, semi-psychedlic, free-flowing story of teenage cyber goths and alien abductions. Spaceship CAUTION: Here be spoilers A spaceship is what gets…
Read MoreThe Levelling is an unusual, well-made British first feature from writer and director Hope Dickson Leach. The Levellling CAUTION: Here be spoilers Set on…
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