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.

TWO AND A HALF STARS A wedding-band singer believes a former boy-band star stole his song. He could be right. COMEDY DRAMA IRELAND English #POWERBALLAD Starring Paul Rudd, Nick Jonas There’s a certain agreeable familiarity to POWER BALLAD, the latest from John Carney, who continues to refine his preferred recipe: emotionally wounded Irish souls, attractive American ring-ins, music as therapy and just enough whimsy to sand down any hard edges. Here the story revolves around

FOUR AND A HALF STARS The world suddenly and fundamentally shifts for a young boy - a member of The Hitler Youth - when the Third Reich falls. PERIOD DRAMA GERMANY German #AMRUM Starring Jasper Billerbeck, Diane Kruger In his quietly extraordinary AMRUM, Fatih Akin (HEAD ON) trades the urban intensity that has long defined his work for something softer, sadder and infinitely more reflective. This is perhaps the least recognisably “Fatih Akin” film he has made - stripped of t

TWO STARS A wealthy matriarch falls in with a lively photographer. That he's also a free-loading grifter doesn't escape the attention of her family. DRAMA FRANCE French #RICHESTWOMAN Starring Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte Thierry Klifa’s THE RICHEST WOMAN IN THE WORLD has the ‘you couldn’t make this stuff up’ pedigree that usually does half the work for you. Loosely drawn from the Bettencourt affair (the extraordinary saga surrounding the L’Oréal heiress) it follows Mari

THREE AND A HALF STARS A mother is searching for her missing kids who've been forced to work in a Northern Terriotry mind. A young man tries to get them to safety. DRAMA AUSTRALIA English #WOLFRAM Starring Pedrea Jackson, Deborah Mailman Warwick Thornton’s WOLFRAM opens draped in red dust, moral outrage and the his signature visual style - vast, sweeping, gorgeously framed vistas. As a loose companion piece to SWEET COUNTRY, this 1930s frontier drama reaches for something sp

TWO AND A HALF STARS Andy returns to Runway to write 'serious' articles. Miranda is horrified. DRAMA US English #PRADA2 Starring Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA 2 is draped in sequins and sparkly couture then stuffed with more celebrity cameos than The Met Gala. Yet it's also weighed down by its own sense of self importance as it trades the sharp bite of the original for something more reflective and, at times, oddly subdued. Twenty years have passed and Mi