★★★☆☆ With an unprecedented third Palme d’Or firmly in the brothers’ sights, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne return to the Croisette this year with a tale at the hard end of the financial crisis, Two Days, One Night (2014). Shucking off […]
★★★☆☆ Cannes has had a good run with westerns this year. Not just Tommy Lee Jones’ quasi-feminist The Homesman, but also the western aspirations of Catch Me Daddy. With The Salvation (2014), we have a much more straight-laced genre flick, […]
★★★★☆ Australian director David Michôd made quite the impression with his outstanding first feature, 2010’s Animal Kingdom, so expectations were understandably high for his follow-up, The Rover (2014), which screened out of competition here at Cannes. Whilst not quite on […]
★★☆☆☆ It seems fitting that the UK rebirth of Icon Film Distribution – whose final release before an impromptu hiatus was Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive (2011) – should continue with another synth-heavy eighties throwback. From director Jim Mickle, who’s proved […]
