Leningrad Cowboys Go America
A Soviet band called Leningrad Cowboys travel to America together with their ruthless manager (Matti Pellonpää), where, they’ve been told, ”people will buy anything”. This comedy became a cult item…
The Bank Job
In 1971, Terry Leather (Jason Statham) assembles a gang of criminals for a job in London, targeting safety deposit boxes in a bank vault, unaware that MI5 are also interested…
Eiffel
What inspired Gustave Eiffel to build his great tower in the heart of Paris in the late 1800s? The answer to that question is not really what we learn in…
As We Burn
In her directing debut, Helena Molin follows a group of young teenage climate activists over several years, including Greta Thunberg, from the moment when they started protesting outside the Swedish…
Cape Fear: Cady Comes to Town
Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum. Photo: Universal When I was 15, one of the coolest movies to open in theaters was Martin Scorsese’s Cape Fear, a thriller that seemed to…
La Belle Année
A hybrid documentary that started out as a project where French-Swedish filmmaker Angelica Ruffier planned to look up her old teacher Sylvie (who affected her deeply as a child) and…
Kenny Dalglish
Asif Kapadia follows up on a previous documentary about Diego Maradona with a closer look on the life and career of Sir Kenny Dalglish, successful striker for Liverpool who became…
Marty: Life is Short
Riding a wave of documentaries about our most beloved (or, in the case of Chevy Chase, complicated) comedians, this is another well-made, funny and moving look at a person who’s…
Remarkably Bright Creatures
When elderly cleaning lady Tova (Sally Field) injures her foot, she needs help taking care of the Washington aquarium where she works; young drifter Cameron (Lewis Pullman) gives her a…
Thief
While pondering a new life with a woman and a kid, a professional jewel thief (James Caan) agrees to do a potentially lucrative score for a Chicago Outfit boss (Robert…