Ralph Thomas’s 1959 version of The 39 Steps is often used to illustrate the genius of Alfred Hitchcock - by contrast. However, in The Clouded Yellow (1951) Thomas does a much better job of emulating the mood and drama of Hitchcock’s classic British chase films.
Paul Huckerby

Folman’s choice of the fantastical properties of animation, rather than live action, perfectly suits his autobiographical psychodrama as he sets about recovering painful memories of his military service in Lebanon, buried deep but rising to the surface again.
Review by Paul Gravett

Produced by Bernd Eichinger (Downfall), directed by Uli Edel and assembling an impressive cast of top-rated German actors, the film painstakingly chronicles the rise and fall of the Red Army Faction (RAF), better known as the Baader-Meinhof Group.
Review by Pamela Jahn

Fine, Totally Fine, the first full-length feature from Yosuke Fujita is cute – as well as offbeat, charming and very funny.
Review by Sarah Cronin

The title refers to the serial acts of staged choking in restaurants whereby Mancini welcomes the empathy and occasional cheques from diners who unsuspectingly save his life.
Review by James Merchant

Agnès Jaoui is a sharp observer of modern life, and her latest film is an uncompromising portrayal of contemporary French society.
Review by Marina Bradbury

Western fairy tale meets Eastern repression in John Williams’s compelling, albeit derivative, noir-ish exploration of the human soul’s murky depths.
Review by Richard Badley

‘Trouble with Women’ might be a good title for this somewhat random collection of Joseph Losey’s films, featuring seven of the 26 he made between 1952 and 1976.
Review by Peter Momtchiloff

Notoriously off-the-wall Hong Kong directors Johnny To and Ka-Fai Wai reteam for a surreal swipe at police procedural movies.
Review by Richard Badley