Film
There are documentary films for all tastes this year.
While calling this Ben Wheatley’s most violent film may be debatable, Free Fire is absolutely the one most riddled with gunshots.
Writer-director Nacho Vigalando blows to bits his love story and morphs his movie into a totally bonkers horror flick.
Seeing the rugged minimalism of golf in its infancy was very appealing.
Get Out owes much to the small but precious film genre that dares to cultivate bizarre and hip satire.
Director Terence Davies read four biographies of Emily Dickinson; the details of her life he remembered became the basis for his screenplay.
Frantz explores the complicated emotions generated by the aftermath of a catastrophic war.
This is an old story, but the approach this time around is fresh, the acting uniformly excellent, and the pacing just right.
Canoa is a historical drama about the horror of history, made all the more frightening because it is based on a true story.

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