The gulf between appearance and reality is the central paradox of a punchy Australian onion peeler.

Flying solo with two little girls, a dauntless Irish mother confronts the lingering injuries of domestic abuse.

The violence is as gory and kinetic as a video game in this red-blooded microverse, where killing is strictly a job for the boys.

A hapless delivery man’s cable-laying gig is a caustic ride to a corporate dark side.

Back for a second, horrific spin, the most potent weapon in director John Krasinski’s tensile nightmare is still its silences.

Hallucinations shine a strangely hopeful light on a dying man’s final reckoning in a comic drama that treads lightly over heavy ground.

Even when on the ropes with his family God-knows-where and France in chaos, the General stubbornly refuses to say die.

When four teachers resolve to drink alcohol every day to enhance their lives, their deranged experiment is a ticket to disaster.

Writer-director Kurt Martin keeps his crew on the move through a desolate, stupendous outback Australia.

Who do you become when your mind deserts you? Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci tread with masterly reserve on this most terrifying ground.