We say: “The pandemic may have delayed the release of mega-bucks sci-fi extravaganzas like Denis Villeneuve’s Dune, but Andrew Patterson’s film was an exhilarating discovery for dark lockdown times and further proof, if you ever needed it, that a small budget (less than $1 million) is no barrier to the sublime. ‘For me, as a younger filmmaker, that’s one of the things I can’t compromise on now,’ she says. Il Sorpasso – Cinema Italiano Italian Cinema vi racconta 100 anni del nostro cinema: da Cabiria a La grande bellezza, i migliori film dal 1914 al 2013 In questo viaggio diviso in varie tappe raccontiamo ora gli anni zero del III millennio, i cento passi che dalla stanza del figlio collegano i grandi film … Not just because the baddies win (temporarily), or because it Force-slammed us with that twist ("No, I am your father"). Everything is up in the air, and also in some odd way feels irrelevant. Blending autobiographical and observational modes, and interweaving the past and the present, the film offers both an epic and an everyday account of incarceration’s thefts – of time; of intimacy. So it’s jarring when, in its final moments, the film descends suddenly and steeply into the abyss, with a shockingly violent and nihilistic coda. When the characters are out, partying on the street, the camera is right there with them, a joyful participant, fluid and tactile, the music perfectly complementing the images. The greatest strength of The Assistant is that it forces us to understand how easy it is to turn the other way, to become complicit, because it’s impossible to do anything else. 1986Rob Reiner's adaptation of Stephen King's novella The Body is a stirring, touching adventure film which knows the real world is exciting and scary enough just as it is. Chukwu’s spare, unsparing prison drama cuts to the heart of the injustice and inhumanity of America’s death penalty. Director: Takashi Miike. And that's as much thanks to Stan Winston's astonishing animatronics work as to ILM's groundbreaking CGI.Read Empire's review of Jurassic ParkBuy the film here, 2010Will Christopher Nolan ever make a Bond movie? Of course, Rick (Humphrey Bogart) eventually does the right thing, but watching him make both the Resistance and the Nazis squirm right up to the final scene is truly joyous.Read Empire's review of CasablancaBuy the film here, 1966Sergio Leone sets three renegades against each other in a treasure hunt backdropped against the chaos and madness of the American Civil War. It announced a bold new filmmaker in Mendes, and also got writer Alan Ball (Six Feet Under, True Blood) rolling.Read Empire's review of American BeautyBuy the film here, 1982With the "Amblin" style so regularly referenced these days (most successfully in the Duffer brothers' Stranger Things), it's worth reminding ourselves that it was never more perfectly encapsulated than in E.T. We said: The title of this fascinating exploration of the disastrous ground-level effects of the neoliberal turn refers to 1992, when Spain hosted the Seville Expo, marking the quincentenary of Columbus’s arrival in the Americas, and the Barcelona Olympics. Our annual poll of the year’s top movies – at cinemas, festivals or online – as chosen by over 100 of our contributors from around the world. It also manages to wring every last drip of funny out of executing spot-on bombastic, Bayhem-style action in a sleepy English small-town setting.Read Empire's review of Hot FuzzBuy the film here, 1994It's the highest-ranking animated movie on this list, beating even Toy Story. We said: “Poignant and intensely moving, Days gestures towards a reconciliation with themes of desire and sexuality that have troubled Tsai’s cinema since the beginning. Hammer-wielding violence? Its narrative arc and characters feel notably different to more conventional British and American animations – from the eerie, inscrutable No-Face, to sort-of-antagonist bathhouse owner Yubaba. It is also a deeply moving prayer of admiration for girls – the wary, watchful ones who have learned to expect nothing of anybody except one another, from whom they expect, and regularly receive, the world.” (Jessica Kiang), Read our review: Never Rarely Sometimes Always: Eliza Hittman’s abortion tale traces the burdens of girlhood, Where to see it: On DVD, Blu-ray and streaming platforms. It was aided no end by a toweringly charismatic central performance (with very few lines of dialogue spoken) from Ryan Gosling, who improbably rocked a silver, quilted silk jacket with a gold scorpion on the back. McDormand is endlessly watchable in a very open, generous performance where, with the least rhetoric, it’s clear that she’s channelling the contemporary experience of multitudes. Reichardt gives us a deliciously laconic vision of the pioneer American melting pot with this playful, poignant fable of a couple of furtive cakebakers in 1820s Oregon. Among the cultural specificity is a coming-of-age universality in young hero Chihiro, forced to fend for herself when her parents are turned into pigs, using her resourcefulness and her friendship with boy-dragon-spirit Haku to earn her freedom from the spirit world. All four leads are excellent, but Florence Pugh quietly steals the show as Amy.” (Nikki Baughan), Read our review: Little Women emancipates Louisa May Alcott’s spirited sisters. The Swedish master of wan deadpan ratchets up his world-historical gaze in a series of sublime microcosmic tableaux. Bustin' did indeed make us feel good.Read Empire's review of GhostbustersBuy the film here, 2000Christopher Nolan made the world sit up and pay attention to him by crafting (with his brother Jonah) a revenge-fuelled crime thriller that dared to demand that its audience sit up and pay attention to its every last detail. The Truth consolidates the shift in his recent work to looser and more conceptual plotting, but it also reaches all the way back to After Life (1998) for some wry reflections on summing up life trajectories and the practical uses of artifice.” (Tony Rayns), Read our review: The Truth: Catherine Deneuve plays a monstrous movie star in Koreeda’s French adventure, Where to see it: On Curzon Home Cinema, Blu-ray and DVD. Alfre Woodard puts in a phenomenal performance, expressing Bernadine’s churning inner turmoil through her resigned expression, downcast eyes and hunched shoulders.” (Nikki Baughan, S&S, September), Read our review: In Clemency, death row walls in Alfre Woodard’s warden, Where to see it: available to buy or stream on BFI Player, iTunes, Amazon Prime and other platforms. It changes things.”, Where to see it: Available now on DVD in the UK. The real-life horrors of Relic, Mogul Mowgli confronts Riz Ahmed’s rapper’s battle of the soul, Mank prints the legend of Hollywood as a gilded cage, Limbo gives a Scottish welcome to four far-flung refugees, “We did a real séance on Zoom”: Rob Savage on video call horror Host, Ema: Pablo Larraín lights some kind of delirious inferno, Little Women emancipates Louisa May Alcott’s spirited sisters, Les Misérables: 24 hours of violence in the Paris streets, Ladj Ly on Les Misérables: “Film is a tool. And it still hurts.Read Empire's review of The Empire Strikes BackBuy the film here, Stanley Kubrick once described Francis Ford Coppola's adaptation of Mario Puzo's novel as the best film ever made, and we're hardly going to argue. We said: “There is so much associated with the Cronenberg legacy that can be found in Possessor – cut-throat corporate skulduggery, weird sci-fi tech, body horror, mannered character names, extreme violence and ‘new flesh’ (here literalised). ” (Giovanni Marchini Camia), Where to see it: Lockdown postponed its planned November UK release to 2021. An astute adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s beloved coming-of-age story that liberates its Civil War-era sisters without taking liberties. Moore and Stewart’s playful and stirring animation conjures an interregnum Ireland of 1650, caught between pagan spirits and the boot of English invaders. : a children's adventure which carefully beds its supernatural elements in an utterly relatable everykid world, and tempers its cuter, more sentimental moments with a true sense of jeopardy.Read Empire's review of E.T.Buy the film here, 2009From its Sergio Leone-riffing opening to its insanely OTT, history-rewriting finale, Tarantino's World War II caper never once fails to surprise and entertain. Forse il miglior film del cinema coreano contemporaneo è Old Boy di Park Chan-wook, tratto dall’omonimo manga di Nobuaki Minegishi e Garon Tsuchiya. So what we get is a series of chatty, casual, occasionally awkward meetings with, respectively, a contentedly unmarried older woman, a wannabe artist and a career woman married to a famous man – all rendered in Hong’s patented offhand naturalism and for the most part stripped of the tricksier elements of his customary aesthetic. When I was shooting [the dance scenes in Lovers Rock], that was for real. La vicenda è ambientata a Chicago nel 2035. We all still want one.Read Empire's review of DriveBuy the film here, 2000Ridley Scott's comeback (after a bad run with 1492, White Squall and G.I. It also put Naomi Watts on the map; her audition scene remains as stunning as it was 16 years ago.Read Empire's review of Mulholland DriveBuy the film here, 1954A film so good they remade it twice — as The Magnificent Seven, then as Battle Beyond The Stars. Russell Crowe's big Hollywood breakthrough. “Maybe Shirley does not quite come together here because such a large part of what forms her has been left out. Not only for making “The Irishman,” his best movie in a long … But it _is_ great drama, expertly wrought by screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, who exploits the story's central paradox (a guy who doesn't get people makes a fortune getting people together online) to supremely juicy effect.Read Empire's review of The Social NetworkBuy the film here. Not only did he use impressive new film-making techniques that make it feel like a movie far younger than its 76 years, but its power-corrupts story still resonates loudly. Richard Meryman said of Herman: “I wanted to find out how, when he was all but finished as a writer, he could turn around and write Citizen Kane.” Mank’s answer is that Mankiewicz always had the ability to write something that good; it was Hollywood holding him back. All rights reserved. Even more so is the other half of the double-act: Jewell as played by Paul Walter Hauser. We said: “Seeing the women crack skulls and femurs along with the lads has been the main through-line for the female characters of superhero franchises. By closing with a Martin Luther King Jr speech and an end-credit intertitle about his assassination, Lee – with mixed success – positions the civil rights leader as present-day America’s father, whose assassination is the country’s Rosebud.” (Kaleem Aftab), Read our review: Da 5 Bloods: Spike Lee brings the Vietnam War home, + “Why fight for a country when they lynch you?” Spike Lee on Da 5 Bloods and American lies. Who fired twice. Shannon Murphy’s debut feature, an adaptation of Rita Kalnejais’s 2012 play, stars Eliza Scanlen and Toby Wallace in a beautifully acted exploration of the pain and absurdity of the young love between a terminally ill teenager and an older drug dealer. The real-life horrors of Relic, Where to see it: On BFI Player and other digital platforms. Time appeals to our most fundamental desires: for love, affection, community – and it makes a more powerful case for the abolition of prisons than any polemical statement might.” (Devika Girish), Read our review: Time is a powerful distillation of lives divided, + “I wanted it to feel like a river, like memory”: Garrett Bradley on Time. Elisabeth Moss is tormented by an unseen assailant in a smart, timely update of the horror mainstay. Scopri i migliori film d'azione scorrendo la top 50 degli action movies da non perdere tra inseguimenti in auto, arti marziali, vampiri e zombie. While she outlines Berlin’s urban development across the 20th century, the camera glides over miniature models of the capital. Like The Good, The Bad And The Ugly it concerns three men — one mysterious (Charles Bronson), one seemingly amoral (Jason Robards) and one evil (Henry Fonda, playing brilliantly against type) — but this time Leone gets to shoot it against the epic vistas of the real American West.Read Empire's review of Once Upon A Time In The WestBuy the film here, 1946Frank Capra's Christmas fantasy was the movie that coaxed a war-battered James Stewart back to acting, and a good thing, too: as George Bailey, who's shown a mind-blowing parallel reality in which he never existed, Stewart was never more appealing. Deserves. I 10 migliori film di Carlo Verdone. Instead, he transplanted the Alien (and, significantly, Ripley) to a different genre, and created one of the greatest ever action movies. Mogul Mowgli is confident and confrontational, exhilarating in its willingness to constantly shift gears between absurdist comedy and vulnerable, introspective narrative.” (Kambole Campbell), Read our review: Mogul Mowgli confronts Riz Ahmed’s rapper’s battle of the soul, Where to see it: On BFI Player and coming to Blu-ray and DVD in February 2021. It's no mere Hollywood self-love exercise, though. Hittman’s previous films, It Felt like Love (2013) and Beach Rats (2017), were both coming-of-age stories. We said: “With its ostentatiously colour-blind casting, not only of the energetic and enterprising Dev Patel as Charles Dickens’s typically intrepid, buffeted young wayfarer, but in a slew of roles rich and poor peppered throughout, Armando Iannucci’s rollicking adaptation announces itself as a radical reclamation of the heritage ‘lit pic’ from the off.” (Tom Charity), Read our review: The Personal History of David Copperfield gives Dickens a radical, rollicking twist, Where to see it: On DVD, Blu-ray, BFI Player and other digital platforms. Berlin, a city that emerged from a swamp, has embarked on this quest again and again. His films’ drawings can look naive and artless, but they’re wondrously composed with swirls and circles and glorious colours, flattened spaces and playful perspectives. It wasn’t performative. After debuting at festivals in 2019, and with its original spring release date pushed back, this potent debut feature from Rose Glass finally emerged into cinemas in the autumn, and became the British horror hit of the year, tackling themes of religion, death and self-harm with a remarkably deft touch. Not merely via Henry Hill's (Ray Liotta) narrative, but also Karen's (Lorraine Bracco) perspective: when Henry gives her a gun to hide, she admits, "It turned me on. Scopri la programmazione. Never florid, rarely contrived, sometimes painful, always true, Hittman’s film is far more than the abortion story it so single-mindedly follows. With James Stewart's detective stalking Kim Novak's mysterious woman, witnessing her suicide, then becoming obsessed with her double, it's certainly disturbing and most definitely (as the title suggests) disorientating. A.O. That's also a Vietnam metaphor. And, thanks to the scope of Scott's visual ambition combined with a leap forward in CGI quality, the movie that showed the industry you could make colossal historical epics commercially viable once more. Oh, and by the way: Nice Guy Eddie was shot by Mr. White. The centrepiece in McQueen’s five-film ‘Small Axe’ anthology depicts the true story of the protests and landmark court case involving the ‘Mangrove Nine’ that followed discriminatory police raids on a Notting Hill restaurant. Throw in psychotropic drugs, a drone that resembles a 1950s B-movie flying saucer, assassins in neon motorcycle suits and a posse of foreign mercenaries thirsty for blood, and what emerges is a shape-shifting genre yarn with surprises aplenty but maybe at times too much on its plate.” (Isabel Stevens), Read our review: Bacurau is a tough and timeless Brazilian frontier western, + Bacurau first look: a way out weird western for menacing times, Where to see it: On Blu-ray and to stream on Mubi. Bacurau is a small impoverished town in the arid north-eastern hinterlands of Brazil; but it’s also a utopia of sorts, with its tight-knit community who stand firm against exterior threats. In its deliberate pacing and rigorous focus, Tsai’s deeply compassionate portrait generates the most acute investment in his characters.” (Giovanni Marchini Camia), Read our review: Days: Tsai Ming-liang makes his peace with sexual release, Where to see it: Still awaiting UK distribution. In a narrative masterstroke, it parallels Michael's (Al Pacino) consolidation of power with the ascendance of his Dad, Vito (Robert De Niro); the triumph of one paving the way to the utter corruption of the other.Read Empire's review of The Godfather Part IIBuy the film here, 1985Part science-fiction caper, part generational culture-clash movie, part weirdo family drama (in which the hero has to rescue his own existence after his mother falls in lust with him, eww), Back To The Future still manages to be timeless despite being so rooted in, well, time. Release Calendar DVD & Blu-ray Releases Top Rated Movies Most Popular Movies Browse Movies by Genre Top Box Office Showtimes & Tickets Showtimes & Tickets In Theaters Coming Soon Coming Soon Movie News India Movie … Consulta la scheda dei film, leggi le recensioni e aggiungi il tuo voto a quelli più interessanti. We said: “If there’s any sublimated anger at all in Johnson’s desire to symbolically serial-kill her progenitor, it’s not delved into here. I realised that this show, like that one, is not simply us performing a series of songs, ending with our biggest hit.

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