Category: Maximilian von Thun

★★★★☆ When historians look back at the rise of populism and anti-establishment feeling in the early years of the 21stContinue Reading

★★★☆☆ Director Wash Westmoreland’s latest film, based on a screenplay written jointly by himself, his late husband Richard Glatzer andContinue Reading

★★★★☆ Often compared in his distinctly Japanese minimalism to legendary compatriot Ozu, Hirokazu Kore-eda is a filmmaker whose graceful yetContinue Reading

★★★★★ Primarily centred around New York auction houses, art fairs and the colourful characters that frequent them, Nathaniel Kahn’s TheContinue Reading

★★★★☆ There is a ruined church that appears twice in Paweł Pawlikowski’s Cold War: once at the beginning and once atContinue Reading

★★★★☆ Filmed in two separate parts by Terence Davies, Distant Voices, Still Lives explores his childhood and early adulthood inContinue Reading

★★★☆☆ Best-known for Of Gods And Men, a film about a group of lonely men in a monastery at aContinue Reading

★★★★☆ This modest but polished film follows an older woman’s journey of self-discovery as her partner is sent to jail.Continue Reading

★★★☆☆ Denis Villeneuve’s Sicario was a masterclass in direction, cinematography, sound design and dramatic tension. This year’s sequel Sicario 2:Continue Reading

★★★★★ British director Andrew Haigh follows up the brilliant 45 Years and Weekend with another understated masterpiece, Lean on Pete,Continue Reading

★★★★☆ Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa (My Joy, In the Fog, Maidan) returns to fiction filmmaking with A Gentle Creature: a gloomy,Continue Reading

★★★★★ New Year celebrations have only recently been and gone, but it may well prove difficult to find a moreContinue Reading

★★★★☆ The First World War might be overshadowed in the contemporary mind by its more famous sequel, but in someContinue Reading

★★★☆☆ Jennifer Peedom’s Mountain contains some truly breathtaking imagery, but it reduces the sublime wonders of the peaks to mereContinue Reading