Category: Martyn Conterio

★★★★★ The Wild Pear Tree is another towering cinematic experience from Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan. The story of aContinue Reading

★★★★★ Sergey Dvortsevoy’s Ayka follows a young woman over five days bitterly cold days in a city she doesn’t reallyContinue Reading

★★★☆☆ Yann Gonzalez follows up 2013’s You and the Night with Knife + Heart, another retro flick featuring lashings ofContinue Reading

★★★★☆ Lebanese actress and director Nadine Labaki’s third directorial feature, Capernaum, is a stirring and essential social-realist drama about livesContinue Reading

★★★☆☆ Italian director Matteo Garrone returns to the Cannes Croisette with a movie a world away from the English-language fantasy TaleContinue Reading

★★★★☆ Stéphane Brizé and Vincent Lindon are fast becoming the Scorsese and De Niro of French social realist cinema. TheirContinue Reading

★★★★☆ Spike Lee goes for the jugular of the alt-right movement and President Trump in this hilarious and vital PalmeContinue Reading

★★★★☆ Gaspar Noé is back on form with Climax, a frenzied tale of a dance group training for an American tour.Continue Reading

★★★★☆ French journalist Matilde H. (Emmanuelle Bercot) joins a battalion of female Kurdish fighters taking back their hometown against misogynistContinue Reading

★★★☆☆ Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov’s Palme d’Or contender musical Leto is set among key figures dominating the early 1980s rockContinue Reading

★★★★☆ Ukranian director Sergei Loznitsa is back on the Cannes Croisette with a superior effort to last year’s Palme contenderContinue Reading

★★★★★ From the duo behind Embrace of the Serpent comes another extraordinary movie full of ethnographic detail and mystical symbolism.Continue Reading