Stripping away everything from the original Death Race 2000 apart from the character names and basic plot, Anderson’s Death Race is a slick, polished B-movie that technically is a better film than the original, but lacks the shock value, innovation and critical edge of its predecessor.
Review by Alex Fitch

After Wong Kar Wai’s ill-advised American venture My Blueberry Nights last year, the re-release of his 1994 Ashes of Time is a welcome reminder of his sheer virtuosity as a filmmaker.
Review by Sarah Cronin

Eddy Moretti and Suroosh Alvi’s powerful yet soft-centred documentary about the Iraqi metal band Acrassicauda creates a fascinating portrait of life in Iraq as seen through the eyes of young metal-heads who struggle not merely to survive in a war zone but to practise their music and get a few gigs organised.
Review by Pamela Jahn

From the writer of Paprika comes the finest Japanese animé released in the UK so far this year.
Review by Alex Fitch

From first-time director Na Hong-jin comes a film that is part Seven, part 24.
Review by Joey Leung

How many of us can truly say that we have enough eerie in our lives? Vampyr is a deep well from which we can draw.
Review by Peter Momtchiloff

Minimalism is the key characteristic of the early films of Walter Hill, as exemplified by his car chase classic The Driver (1978), in which the characters are simply referred to as The Driver, The Detective and The Girl.
Review by John Berra

Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe is an interesting but flawed feature documentary that seems as concerned with righting a historical wrong as with probing the relationship between these two fascinating men.
Review by Sarah Cronin

Judex (1963) and Nuits Rouges (1973) - packaged together here - are both homages to Louis Feuillade, the French director of silent serials much loved by Buñuel and the surrealists.
Review by Paul Huckerby

Never has a bit of veil draped over a camera whilst shuffling towards a girl been so terrifying, or a pair of hobnailed boots more sinister.
Review by Oli Smith