Thursday till Sunday
The Chilean director Dominga Sotomayor’s debut film, Thursday till Sunday, is a portrait of a marriage and family falling apart.
Review by Sarah Cronin
The Chilean director Dominga Sotomayor’s debut film, Thursday till Sunday, is a portrait of a marriage and family falling apart.
Review by Sarah Cronin
From the opening shots through to its tragic end, Jean-Pierre Melville’s classic Army of Shadows about the French Resistance is full of influential, iconic imagery.
Review by Sarah Cronin
Winner of six Oscars, A Place in the Sun is a bruising mix of melodrama and romance with touches of film noir.
Review by Sarah Cronin
Israeli TV series Prisoners of War/Hatufim opens in the moment when the release of three prisoners of war is secured in tense, high-level negotiations.
Review by Sarah Cronin
Set in the years immediately following Franco’s crushing victory, Black Bread is not just another story of the Spanish Civil War as seen through the eyes of an imaginative child.
Review by Sarah Cronin
This is film noir set in the rarefied milieu of the elite, rather than in the mean streets below the glittering penthouses.
Review by Sarah Cronin
Based loosely on the sudden demise of Lehman Brothers, Margin Call is a nuanced, intriguing look at the events that led to the bank’s implosion and to the wider, global financial crisis.
Review by Sarah Cronin
Is Steve McQueen’s much anticipated second film a truly great film or does it fall short?
Double take review by John Bleasdale and Sarah Cronin
Electric Sheep writers review the films that turned out to be big disappointments in 2011.
Electric Sheep writers review the best films seen at festivals in 2011, including Shame and Once upon a Time in Anatolia.