The Pleasures of Underachievement

It wasn’t a vintage year for movies; even if there was a fair amount of decent films on release, few of them were real top-drawer stuff...

2013 turned out to be a good year for film, with a wide and varied range of excellent movies, from pretty much everywhere, covering the m...

A Touch of Sin ( Tian Zhu Ding) (Jia Zhangke – China/Japan) 133 minutes If one were to name the most important filmmaker alive today, you...

The Golden Dream ( La jaula de oro ) (Diego Quemada-Diez – Guatemala/Spain/Mexico) 102 minutes It is a strange coincidence that two...

The Counsellor (Ridley Scott – USA/UK)  117 minutes Depending on who you are, The Counsellor ’s ultimate selling point is either its five...

It’s the Earth, not the Moon ( É na Terra, não é na Lua ) (Gonçalo Tocha – Portugal) 185 minutes Gonçalo Tocha and his sound engineer ...

Captain Phillips (Paul Greengrass – USA) 134 minutes ‘No Al Qaeda’, say the Somali pirates in Paul Greengrass’ Captain Phillips ; t...

The Immigrant (James Gray – USA) 120 minutes James Gray’s first foray into period drama stays in New York – in a similar working-class m...