TWO STARS Barb becomes enmeshed in saving the life of a young woman, kidnapped in the frozen, winter landscape of Minnesota. DRAMA US English #DEADOFWINTER Starring Emma Thompson, Judy Greer This is the sort of film that confirms just how rough the landscape must be for actors of Emma Thompson’s calibre. A hackneyed horror-thriller with pretensions of grit (one she, surprisingly, co-produced presumably because this is how you get to work), DEAD OF WINTER wastes its star on a

THREE STARS Linda's world is buckling, and neither her child, husband, therapist, doctor nor apartment are helping. DRAMA US English #IFIHADLEGS Starring Rose Byrne, Conan O'Brien There’s no denying the impact of IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU, Mary Bronstein’s grim, claustrophobic portrait of a mother unravelling. Whether that impact feels worthwhile will depend on your tolerance for discomfort. Starring Rose Byrne in a performance as raw as it is punishing, this is a film desi

THREE AND A HALF STARS John Davidson has Tourette's. Everyone thinks he's inappropriate and swears too much. DRAMA UK English #ISWEAR Starring Robert Aramayo, Maxine Peake Kirk Jones (WAKING NED DEVINE ) is no stranger to sentiment, and I SWEAR is no exception. Based on the true story of John Davidson, a Scotsman diagnosed as a teenager with Tourette syndrome, it’s a film with heart, humour and a fair amount of grit. If it doesn’t quite stick the landing, it certainly at lea

THREE STARS Grace's world is buckling, and neither her child, husband or mother-in-law are helping. DRAMA US English #DIEMYLOVE Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson It’s fair to say that Lynne Ramsay has never been interested in making films that are easy to digest. She makes you work hard and DIE MY LOVE is one of those films. Adapted from Ariana Harwicz’s novel about a woman unravelling at the intersection of motherhood, rural isolation and unresolved grief, Ramsay

THREE AND A HALF STARS A fly-on-the-wall documentary about Jacinda Ardern's five years in New Zealand's highest office. DOCUMENTARY NEW ZEALAND English #PRIMEMINISTER Starring Jacinda Ardern What makes PRIME MINISTER so compelling isn’t its access, though there’s plenty of that, but its perspective. And kindness. That gets mentioned a lot. Directors Lindsay Ute and Michelle Walshe have crafted a documentary that’s as unprecedented as Jacinda Ardern’s own political journey, o

THREE STARS Japanese students take politics into their own hands when surveillance technology arrives at their high school. DRAMA JAPAN Japanese #HAPPYEND Starring Hayato Kurihara, Yukito Hidaka Neo Sora’s feature debut HAPPYEND unfolds in a recognisable near-future Japan where teenage restlessness rubs awkwardly against an increasingly watchful society. It opens with a clutch of high-school friends on the brink of graduation, bored, cheeky - they sneak their way into a tech

THREE STARS The CEO of a major firm is kidnapped by conspiracy-theorists convinced she's an evil alien. COMEDY-DRAMA US English #BUGONIA Starring Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons Yorgos Lanthimos is not content to deliver easy entertainment. His work includes THE FAVOURITE and POOR THINGS and is always off-beat, funny, vicious, surreal or absurd (usually all at once). As it is with BUGONIA in which two conspiracy-driven loners abduct a high-powered CEO because they believe she i

THREE AND A HALF STARS Two men bond at a therapy session for grieving twins. Not all is as it seems. COMEDY-DRAMA US English #TWINLESS Starring Dylan O'Brien, James Sweeney James Sweeney’s sly, dark comedy opens at a funeral, with Roman (MAZERUNNER's Dylan O’Brien) and his mother receiving mourners after the death of his gay twin brother, Rocky (also O’Brien). It’s an awkward affair as the grieving line up to offer condolences only to burst into tears when they come face to

FOUR STARS Mrs Warren has come to stay with her daughter as history and emotion overwhelm them both. PERIOD DRAMA UK English #MRSWARREN Starring Imelda Staunton, Bessie Carter "Women have to feel a great deal that they don't feel!" When George Bernard Shaw wrote MRS WARREN’S PROFESSION in the 1890s, he knew exactly what he was doing - shaking the establishment and forcing polite society to look at itself. It was so incendiary that the play wasn’t publicly performed until 192

THREE STARS Jeffrey escapes prison and hides out in a toy shop. With a new identity, the charismatic thief makes friends with churchy Leigh and her family. COMEDY DRAMA US English #ROOFMAN Starring Channing Tatum, Kirsten Dunst Playing real-life “Roofman” Jeffrey Manchester, Channing Tatum is an ex-soldier and serial burglar who, convicted, escapes prison to hide for months in a Toys “R” Us store. Living among the dolls and bicycles, he dismantles alarms, rides his bike at