This sweatshop restaurant kitchen spares no one.

The pain of mistreatment and the power of revenge will never get old.

Director Tim Mielants frames a rural Ireland that is glacial and grey.

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

Wizard of misery Ralph Fiennes goes to town on melancholia.

Fernanda Torres is the doggedly beating heart of grace under pressure.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s performance is so phenomenally horrible it hurts to watch.

In an inhuman hotbed of paranoia and dread, everyone is potentially capable of anything.

Pamela Anderson could have pulled this performance from her heart.

This desultory journey is so mesmeric that what matters most is how fantastical it looks.