FOUR STARS Four musicians are brought together to play a commissioned piece on Stradivarius instruments. Ego, talent and poor humour collide. DRAMA FRANCE French #THEMUSICIANS Starring Valérie Donzelli, Frédéric Pierrot THE MUSICIANS is a French ensemble with the light touch of a chamber piece and the timing of an old-fashioned backstage farce. Warm, witty and sharply observed, the film takes an appealing premise of talented artists trapped together under pressure and turns i

TWO STARS A well funded agency has been covering up proof that aliens have landed. The government is implicit. The people are about to learn the truth. SF THRILLER US English #DISCLOSUREDAY Starring Emily Blunt, Josh O'Connor Steven Spielberg has spent half a century teaching us to believe the impossible. Flying bicycles, glowing motherships, dinosaurs resurrected from amber. The trick was never the spectacle. It was the wonder. You bought the absurd because Spielberg made yo

THREE AND A HALF STARS Composer Antonio Vivaldi has returned to compose and perform but mostly teach. A talented novice catches his ear. PERIOD DRAMA ITALY Italian #PRIMAVERA Starring Michele Riondino, Tecla Insolia Fun fact: the bulk of composer Antonio Vivaldi’s work, he of the eternal Four Seasons, was only rediscovered in the 1920’s. Long out of fashion, it wasn’t until the 1950s that this Renaissance master regained long lost popularity. By then, he’d been dead some 200

THREE STARS Niki has a hearing condition which makes the everyday difficult, but tuning pianos (and cracking safes) is a cinch! THRILLER US English #TUNER Starring Leo Woodall, Dustin Hoffman TUNER quickly establishes its slightly offbeat premise with such assurance that there’s never much temptation to resist it. Leo Woodall plays Niki White, a gifted young piano tuner apprenticed to veteran craftsman Harry Horowitz (Dustin Hoffman), whose advancing age and fading hearing h

THREE STARS Miguel is held for ransom where his storytelling catches the ears (and eyes) of his Moorish captor. PERIOD DRAMA SPAIN Spanish #ELCAUTIVO Starring Julio Peña, Alessandro Borghi Alejandro Amenábar's historical drama THE CAPTIVE (EL Cautivo) is all sweeping vistas, immaculate costumes and faces so luminous they look as though they’ve wandered in from a particularly romanticised Renaissance fresco. The casting director clearly knew the assignment; everyone has that

FOUR AND A HALF STARS Generations of family history and emotion play out on a remote German farm. It's a history no one can escape. PERIOD DRAMA GERMANY German #THESOUNDOFFALLING Starring Hanna Heckt, Susanne Wuest Mascha Schilinski’s THE SOUND OF FALLING is a staggering piece of filmmaking - dense, demanding and emotionally bruising in ways that stay with you long after the credits roll. It is not a film interested in accessibility and will make you work for its pleasures.