Maggie’s Plan (2015)
What happens when you realise your husband is perfect for his ex-wife? In Rebecca Miller’s screwball New York romcom Maggie’s Plan, life doesn’t always…
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The Colony (2015)
★★☆☆☆
Florian Gallenberger’s thriller The Colony (Colonia) dramatises events following Chile’s 1973 coup.
Adult Life Skills (2016)
★★★★☆
Rachel Tunnard’s debut feature Adult Life Skills is a quirky, witty and moving film about grief and identity.
Ma Ma (2015)
★★★☆☆
Penélope Cruz stars as a saintly breast cancer sufferer in Julio Medem’s terminal illness melodrama Ma Ma.
Remainder (2015)
★★★★☆
What if you couldn’t remember your past and you tried to recreate it? Omar Fast’s visually stunning debut Remainder is a compulsively mind-bending puzzle.
The Violators (2015)
★★★☆☆
An uncompromising directorial debut by author Helen Walsh, The Violators is a powerful story of teenage girls in broken Britain.
Tale of Tales (2015)
★★★★★
Beautiful and grotesque – director Matteo Garone’s visually stunning collection of dark fairy tales for adults Tale of Tales defies description.
Bang Gang (2015)
★★★☆☆
In a long hot summer, a collective sexual madness grips a group of French school students in Eva Husson’s uninspired Bang Gang.
The Intervention (2016)
★★★☆☆
A light comedy of thirty-somethings interfering in their friends’ lives, Clea DuVall’s The Intervention is a lightweight performance piece.
Other People (2016)
★★★★☆
A semi-autobiographical story of comedy in the heart of tragedy, Chris Kelly’s Other People sees both good things and bad happen to us all.
Goat (2015)
★★★★☆
Penned by David Gordon Green and with a cameo performance from James Franco, Andrew Neel’s hazing drama Goat has impeccable indie credentials.
Love & Friendship (2016)
★★★★☆
A witty adaptation of Jane Austen’s Lady Susan, Whit Stillman’s Love & Friendship is a sassy parody of Regency manners.
The Daughter (2015)
★★★☆☆
Relocating Ibsen’s The Wild Duck to the Australian outback, Simon Stone’s The Daughter remains an intense but stagey melodrama.
Chicken (2016)
★★★★☆
A teen maelstrom of romance, secrets and family in the Essex countryside, Joe Stephenson’s Chicken is a moving portrait of a breaking idyll.