Review

Twelve years, as a caption at the start of this foul-mouthed, foul-tempered crime flick tells us, is a long time inside. And judging by safecracker Dom Hemingway’s (Jude Law) anger management issues, he didn’t get time off for good behaviour. Locked up while cancer claimed his wife, Dom has also …

A sequel in name only, Ghosts of Georgia spins off its 2009 predecessor ’s brand of ‘real-life horror’ with a story of a family whose women possess a ‘sixth sense’ that allows them to see dead people. It’s an ability that doesn’t serve them well once it’s revealed their new …

‘The Boxer’ is octogenarian artist Ushio Shinohara, famous for ‘action paintings’ that treat canvases as punchbags. ‘Cutie’ is long-suffering wife Noriko, who abandoned her own career to support her eccentric husband. The catch? Ushio’s work never really sold. Zachary Heinzerling’s documentary is a plaintive portrait of this odd couple, scrabbling …

With his kids forever glued to the telly, David Bond’s irreverent doc sees the director elect himself “marketing director of Nature” to rekindle Britain’s lost love affair with the great outdoors. Bond’s cute gimmick is to hire branding gurus to inspire sun-starved children to down their iPads and roam wild; …

I’m the goddamn Batman, perched atop a snow-covered hat shop and planning my next move. I could go try to find Black Mask–that bastard put a price on my head and now every two-bit criminal with a shtick is trying to gun me down–but it makes more sense to head …

Aspiring actor Pietro (Elio Germano) can’t believe his luck when he bags his dream Rome apartment. But guess what? It’s already occupied by the ghosts of a theatrical troupe who vanished during WW2. A gentle comedy about a gay man’s attachment to old-school notions of romance, Ferzan Ozpetek’s film is …

Wii Party U, like Wii Party before it, is essentially Mario Party minus the personality and pizazz. Its Mii-centric cast brings with it a slew of new minigames and modes that make the best of what the Wii U has to offer, tapping into GamePad’s unique functionality in addition to …

Every Pokémon game you’ve ever played has lied to you. They’ve assembled a web of deceit wrapped around the idea that the series is, in some way, about being friends with your Pokémon. The best trainers, they’ve said over and over and over again, are the ones who are the …

The fact that Lebanon had a space programme is just one of the surprises in Khalil Joreige and Joana Hadjithomas’ fascinating dispatch from the “who knew?” fringes of docu-making. The duo source archive materials and interviewees to explore how ’60s scientists in Beirut developed a rocket until civil war grounded …

Felix Van Groeningen’s Ghent-set melodrama centres on a couple – tattoo-parlour owner Elise (Veerle Baetens) and banjo player Didier (Johan Heldenbergh) – torn apart when their daughter contracts cancer. Co-written by Heldenbergh and Mieke Dobbels, based on their own play, it will have you toe-tapping one minute and tear-wiping the …