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Some wooden acting and forced scenes undermine a decent concept in the violent drama Juvenile Delinquents. Seven kids – five guys and two...

Talk about a bizarre and macabre black comedy. It concerns a 44-year-old guy, Georges (Jean Dujardin – The Artist), who, as the film’s ti...

If you are a music buff, it would be hard not to get excited by the trip down memory lane that is Echo in the Canyon. This is a reverenti...

Scenic manufactured pap for the elderly. That, in a nutshell, is 23 Walks, which promised much but delivered little. Two lonely people co...

A series of fine, natural performances led by Carolina Sanín highlight an emotionally wrought slice of life piece set in Bogota, Columbia...

If you are looking for a straightforward, readily understandable narrative, then Shirley may not be the movie for you. Instead, it is a l...

A visionary, a skilled and creative genius, a futurist, a workaholic and a populist who broke boundaries. Constraint is not in his vocabu...

A brutal but poignant script, skilful feature directorial debut, bravura lead acting performance and powerful score are the hallmarks of ...

It is about to be a night to remember in a popular Greek restaurant in Melbourne run by long-term proprietor Kostas (Vangelis Mourikis) i...

A small, largely predictable, feel good romantic drama, Love Sarah centres around three generations of women who go into business togethe...

A man haunted by his past is forced to face his demons in the slow-moving, supernatural religious horror The Vigil. Yakov Ronen (Dave Dav...

The more I saw, the more I enjoyed The King of Staten Island. It’s all about a heavily tattooed, 24-year-old dope smoker Scott Carlin (Pe...

A ripping yarn and a grand adventure, The Personal History of David Copperfield delights. It highlights just how magnificent a writer Cha...

Navigating a romantic entanglement can be – and often is – difficult enough. But when it comes to two – at the same time – it is in a lea...

The despicable acts of disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein come into sharp focus as The Assistant unfolds. Jane (Julia Garner) is a yo...

A photographer who has covered the world’s trouble spots and suffers badly from PTSD befriends a hardworking Sudanese man with a secret t...

Underground private ambulances competing for patients, begging for money and paying police bribes. That’s what we witness up close and pe...

Youthful anarchy is at the heart of a largely black and white film set just before the British government enacted legislation banning amp...

A surreal nightmare, Vivarium is a descent into madness. It is designed to do your head in … and it does. Here’s the scenario – Tom (Jess...

Weird and wacky film noir, Burning Kiss is a psychedelic whodunnit in reverse. By that I mean we know who perpetrated the crime, but the ...