THREE AND A HALF STARS Thanks largely to PH Burton, Richard Jenkins would become one of the 20th century's most celebrated actors. PERIOD DRAMA UK English #MRBURTON Starring Toby Jones, Harry Lawtey Richard Burton’s career is as well documented as his marriages but less well known is the boy behind the man behind the legend. Marc Evans’ MR BURTON takes us back to the beginning, to Port Talbot in the 1940s, when the Welsh miner’s son was still Richard Jenkins. This is no stra

THREE AND A HALF STARS A valuable painting, long thought lost to history, is found hanging on the wall of a young man who wants nothing to do with it. DRAMA FRANCE French #THESTOLENPAINTING Starring Alex Lutz, Léa Drucker THE STOLEN PAINTING plays out like a smartly cut thriller, but what really lingers isn’t the mystery — it’s the slow, satisfying excavation of character. Beneath its Parisian gloss, this is a study in how money can corrode almost anything it touches, even t

THREE STARS A man quits his job and head to the coast to paint. Divine intervention has set off an unlikely chain of events. PERIOD DRAMA IRELAND English #FOURLETTERSOFLOVE Starring Pierce Brosnan, Helena Bonham-Carter In some ways FOUR LETTERS OF LOVE aspires to be an Irish Wuthering Heights , all billowing romance of chaste emotion but with a healthy dose of a new dawn. And it could be were it braver in its choices, stronger in its conviction and served with a lot  less sy

THREE AND A HALF STARS City officials said a bus could never reach a neighbourhood behind Barcelona. Manolo said otherwise. DRAMA SPAIN...

FOUR STARS A young asylum seeker hopes to get the right to work in Paris. For now, he's delivering food. DRAMA FRANCE French #SOULEYMANE Starring Abou Sangare, Alpha Oumar Sow Bike deliveries have become ubiquitous with the urban landscape - dropping drinks, meals and pizzas cities wide. Yet behind every bike is a person and interactions with the drivers are seldom more than a polite ‘thank you’ or a grumpy ‘get off the footpath!’ What happens around those exchanges is THE S

THREE AND A HALF STARS A teenage boy forms an attachment with an older, male, co-worker. DRAMA FRANCE French #ENZO Starring Eloy Pohu, Maksym Slivinskyi ENZO is a heartfelt coming-of-age film that sidesteps melodrama to tell the story of Enzo (Eloy Pohu), a teenager whose world opens up when he who defies his bourgeois family, takes a masonry apprenticeship and forms a friendship with Vlad (Maksym Slivinsky), a charismatic Ukrainian co-worker ten years his senior. Director R

THREE STARS A businessman has plans for Phoenicia if he can raise the cash. Others would rather he didn't, they'd rather him dead. ADVENTURE COMEDY US English #THEPHOENICIANSCHEME Starring Benicio del Toro, Mia Threapelton Wes Anderson’s THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME is exactly what you expect from the idiosyncratic director: a finely crafted, exquisitely styled confection that dazzles the eye but doesn’t always satisfy the appetite. Like an elaborate wedding cake - rich with intric

TWO AND A HALF STARS A petty criminal is unable to shake off the enduring pull of his first love. DRAMA FRANCE French #BEATINGHEARTS Starring François Civil, Adele Exarchopoulos Gilles Lellouche ’s BEATING HEARTS ( L’Amour Ouf ) is an ambitious and often chaotic modern romantic epic, aiming for operatic grandeur but landing somewhere closer to melodramatic excess. With a sweeping narrative that spans decades, the film aims for passion and tragedy but its emotional reach far

THREE STARS A farming couple rip up their fences and put their trust in nature. DOCUMENTARY UK English #WILDING Starring Isabella Tree, Matthew Collyer Around twenty years ago, Isabella Tree and her husband took the unusual decision of letting their property go to 'ruin'. Unusual because it was several hundred acres of agricultural land not terribly far from London, Knepp Hall was a stately pile that had been in the family for generations and most of all, unusual because pos

THREE STARS A UK couple are made homeless and decide to walk the Cornish coast to clear their heads. DRAMA UK English #THESALTPATH Starring Gillian Anderson, Jason Isaccs Director Marianne Elliott, best known for her theatre work, makes her feature debut with THE SALT PATH, an adaptation of Raynor Winn’s bestselling memoir. It’s a handsome, if uneven, drama that has a crack at balancing hardship, resilience and nature’s healing power. The results are mixed. “Walking gives us