Rating: 3.5★
Adam Elliot is not a filmmaker who deals in the comfortable or the tidy. The Melbourne-born writer and director built his reputation through a series of short clay-animated films, each one a small, handmade biography of someone living at the margins: disabled, lonely, overlooked, and yet somehow persisting.
Rating: 3.5★
There is a version of O Brother, Where Art Thou? that exists purely as a genre exercise: three bumbling convicts on the run through Depression-era Mississippi, chased by a lawman who seems to belong to a different and more unforgiving film entirely. That version would have been perfectly watchable.
Rating: 3.5★
Stanley Kubrick made Full Metal Jacket in 1987, adapting Gustav Hasford's novel The Short-Timers with co-writers Michael Herr (whose own Vietnam memoir Dispatches had already reshaped how the war could be written about) and Kubrick himself. The film arrived two years after Oliver Stone's
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
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 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
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
Rating: 3.5★
By 1936, Hollywood had refined the screwball comedy into something close to its own genre, a peculiar fusion of physical farce, rapid-fire wit, and class anxiety that felt perfectly suited to Depression-era audiences who were, by and large, in no mood to be sympathetic towards the idle rich.
Country United Kingdom
I will admit it, Geronto did not win me over straight away. For its opening stretch I thought I knew exactly what it was: a short about two men meeting by chance and going to bed together, and little more. I was wrong, and by the end this quiet, melancholy
Country Canada
Well, this is one I will not forget in a hurry. Emily Lawson's Man Eating Pussy is as confrontational as its title promises, a grotesque, strange and surprisingly tender little piece of body horror that uses one genuinely unforgettable image to say something real. It does not all
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