La Cocina
This sweatshop restaurant kitchen spares no one.

The Surfer
Nicolas Cage bends reality into derangement. (Again.)

Flow (‘Straume’)
A fight for life evolves into a dazzling meditation on love.

Drop
Sensible and safe were never on this menu.

The Penguin Lessons
Steve Coogan wears despondency like a favourite tweed jacket but the batty little bird is the star of every scene.

The Count of Monte Cristo (‘Le Comte de Monte-Cristo’)
The pain of mistreatment and the power of revenge will never get old.

Small Things Like These
Director Tim Mielants frames a rural Ireland that is glacial and grey.

Oh, Canada
Its calculated incoherence doesn’t bode well for emotive impact but at least keeps viewers on their artistic toes.

The Return
Wizard of misery Ralph Fiennes goes to town on melancholia.

I’m Still Here (‘Ainda Estou Aqui’)
Fernanda Torres is the doggedly beating heart of grace under pressure.

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