Agony (2020) – on demand
★★☆☆☆
Agony (original title The Executrix) by Michele Civetta, starring Asia Argento, is a heavily atmospheric Italian-set gothic horror-cum-giallo.
★★☆☆☆
Agony (original title The Executrix) by Michele Civetta, starring Asia Argento, is a heavily atmospheric Italian-set gothic horror-cum-giallo.
★★★★☆
Ava is an unforgiving, unforgettable coming-of-age film about a teenage girl’s loss of freedom in Iran from a compelling new filmmaker, Sadaf Foroughi.
★★★★☆
Undocument describes so much human misery that it’s hard to watch – but we must.
★★★★☆
A Season in France is Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s moving film focusing on the plight of a father and his family, asylum seekers in the grip of hostile bureaucracy.
★★★★☆
Foxtrot is director Samuel Moaz’s original, surreal black comedy of the paradoxes and contradictions of life in Israel and Palestine on the edge of war.
★★★☆☆
Tides directed by Tupaq Felber is a black-and-white, quiet unfolding of old friendships.
★★★★☆
Anchor & Hope is a fresh and funny romcom by Carlos Marqués-Marcet, director of 10,000 km, about the different kinds of lifestyles that people who really care for each other can make for themselves.
★★★★☆
Joe Martin’s Us and Them is a violent riff on the inequalities of contemporary British society that incense articulate young working-class Danny (Jack Roth, channelling his father Tim) and what he does about it.
★★★★☆
Legendary filmmaker Agnes Varda teams up with photographer JR in a charming creative road trip around France that celebrates the extraordinariness of ordinary people and the power of the imagination.
★★★★☆
John Carroll Lynch’s wonderful, poignant Lucky is a fitting career-end for brilliant actor Harry Dean Stanton.
★★★★☆
Wajib translates as ‘duty’ and Annemarie Jacir’s film focuses on a beautifully observed father-son relationship as they take a road trip around Nazareth amid the confines of being an Arab in Israel.
★★★★☆
Xavier Beauvois’ The Guardians Les Guardiennes is a beautiful period recreation of a time of change for women and society in rural France during the First World War.
★★★★☆
Xavier Beauvois’ The Racer and the Jailbird stars Adèle Exarchopoulos and Matthias Schoenaerts in an intense, high-speed love affair.
★★★☆☆
The Endless is Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead’s excellent sci-fi horror fantasy UFO death-cult adventure.