Rabbit Trap

Wales, 1976; a couple (Dev Patel, Rosy McEwen) living in an isolated cabin are visited by a mysterious child (Jade Croot). There are things to be appreciated in this trippy…

Good Boy

Not another Cujo (1983), but a low-budget horror movie with a story about a dog sensing that things are not right in a house where an old man met a…

Small Things Like These

It’s 1985 and Christmas is coming to the Irish town of New Ross, where coal merchant Bill Furlong (Cillian Murphy) comes across a teenage girl in a local convent who…

Two Prosecutors

In 1937, a young prosecutor (Aleksandr Kuznetsov) suspects corruption within the local NKVD in Bryansk and tries to interrogate an elderly political prisoner. Based on a short story written by…

Eagles of the Republic

The most famous actor in Egypt, George Fahmy (Fares Fares), gets an offer he’d better not refuse: playing President al-Sisi in a hagiographic biopic. The final entry in the director’s…

Is This Thing On?

After separating, Alex Novak (Will Arnett) tries something radically different, standup comedy, finding the experience therapeutic. The filmmakers were inspired by the real-life story of British comedian John Bishop for…

Eden

In the 1920s, a German couple (Jude Law, Vanessa Kirby) who have built a solitary new life on one of the Galapagos Islands, find their peace disturbed by several newcomers,…

The Smashing Machine

Sooner or later, you reach that stage when you’ve made more action-comedies than you can count, and start looking for something meatier. In Dwayne Johnson’s case it’s a biography from…

If I Had Legs I’d Kick You

Linda (Rose Byrne), a therapist, finds herself juggling several crises at the same time, including a collapsing ceiling and an indifferent colleague (Conan O’Brien). Mary Bronstein’s intention was to illustrate…