A genuinely original film with a mythic dimension that makes it sit even bigger in the imagination than it does on the screen.

It’s great to see more female actors moving behind the camera, since they so often bring a fresh and distinctive vision.

This handsome, vigorously dramatic production features Denmark’s biggest star, Mads Mikkelsen.

For 90 of the total 120 minutes two story threads remain frustratingly unconnected.

Audrey Tautou plays young widow Natalie, an office worker whose insensitive, married boss continually pesters her for a date.

Fiennes transposes an obscure Shakespearean tragedy from Roman times to present-day Europe.

The Artist manages to be both broadly accessible and sophisticated in its understanding of cinema.

Pedro Almodóvar has developed a sense of style so unique his films occupy an idiosyncratic genre all of their own.

Fabrice Luchini excels in this expertly crafted upstairs-downstairs comedy set in 1962.

Birthday has its origins – rather too obviously – in a stage play by the film’s writer-director.

There’s a case to be made that Woody Allen’s career has been grievously underrated in its autumnal stage.

In this brisk and handsomely mounted tragi-comedy Charlotte Rampling plays an eccentric and controlling matriarch.