Behemoth (2015)
Behemoth’s immensity gives way to wounded specificity, in an elegy aching with pain.
Queen of Katwe (2016)
Disney’s underdog Ugandan chess story digs a little deeper into the difficulties of overcoming disadvantage.
The Dark Wind (2016)
The Dark Wind tells the story of the Islamic State’s impact on the Yazidi community, a Kurdish group targeted for genocide in 2014.
The Bacchus Lady (2016)
Trust South Korea to turn a film about elderly sex workers into a black comedy.
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (2016)
Ang Lee, known for his recent use of emotive VFX (Life of Pi), has again delivered an aesthetically engaging and emotionally driven film with Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk.
The Fencer (2015)
Part underdog sports story, part post-war resistance narrative, The Fencer finds resistance in the smallest thrusts and parries.
Elle (2016)
Elle, Paul Verhoeven’s latest, inserts trashy rape-revenge tropes into polite French melodrama with provocative results.
Doctor Strange (2016)
Don’t be fooled by the smoke and mirrors – beneath Doctor Strange’s shiny coat of paint is a vanilla origin story.
Spear (2015)
A uniquely indigenous contribution to Australian art cinema.
To Love-Ru Darkness
While Darkness is hardly light years away from previous seasons – this is still very much a show that earns the “frequent animated nudity” classification – it’s far more fun and focused than what came before.
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