Rating: 4.0★
There is a particular kind of American independent comedy that does not so much build to a punchline as simply exist, stubbornly and on its own terms, until the world catches up with it. Napoleon Dynamite (2004) is about as pure an example of that form as you are likely
Country France
Here is a short that understands the oldest rule in horror: what you do not see is almost always scarier than what you do. The Last Snow, Rodolphe Bouquet's tense little French creature feature, is really impressive for its length, a lean, dread-soaked chiller that had me
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Few premises this festival season grabbed me quite as quickly as the one at the heart of Prince, Federico Borgia's solo-debut feature: a wealthy woman leaves her entire estate to her Afghan Hound, and her human heirs can only inherit once the dog is dead. What follows
Country Uruguay
There is a wickedly good premise at the heart of Federico Borgia's Prince, and a pedigree cast to carry it, but this Uruguayan dark comedy never quite sinks its teeth in. It is a perfectly pleasant watch, handsomely made and nicely performed, yet for a film built on
Rating: 3.5★
Paths of Glory arrived in 1957 as something of an anomaly: an American studio picture that had the nerve to portray the French military command of the First World War as venal, cowardly, and casually murderous. Based on Humphrey Cobb's 1935 novel, itself drawn from a real court
Country United Kingdom
There is a particular kind of childhood lie that spirals so far beyond your control that you end up trapped inside it, and I Was Kidnapped captures that sinking, guilty feeling just about perfectly. Dhananjay Barangule's animated short is a warm, funny and nicely crafted piece of autobiography,
Country United Kingdom
There is a very specific feeling at the heart of Hindsight that I recognised instantly, and it is the thing that carries Remi R.M. Moses' short further than its slender eleven minutes probably should. This is a warm, nicely observed little film about a young man, his first
Country Australia
Every so often a short comes along with a premise so neat you wonder why no one had done it before, and A Grief Encounter is one of those. James Ashley McLaren's Australian short is a funny, tender and genuinely original little film about a lonely taxidermist and
Rating: 3.5★
Ryuichi Sakamoto is one of those rare figures whose career resists easy summary. A founding member of the Yellow Magic Orchestra, the pioneering electronic group that shaped Japanese pop and left fingerprints all over Western synth music in the late 1970s and early 1980s, he went on to become one
Rating: 3.5★
Released in the summer of 1972, Snoopy, Come Home arrived as the second theatrical feature spun out of Charles M. Schulz's beloved Peanuts comic strip, following three years after the franchise's big-screen debut. By this point, Schulz's characters had already conquered television, newspaper
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Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) at fifty: a look back at the film, its making and its legacy.
Country United Kingdom
Fishbrain is a stunner. Max Vanderspuy's short is a grim, briny little nightmare about love curdling into resentment, and it builds to some of the most impressive body horror I have seen in any film this year, let alone one this length. It is nasty, tender and genuinely
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