Borgo (2024) ***

Realistic French drama set in a Corsican prison.

L'Amour ouf (2024) ***

Directed by Gilles Lellouche, a violent gangster drama starring Adèle Exarchopoulos.

La Bête (2024) *

Confusing French film directed by Bertrand Bonello and starring Léa Seydoux.

Monsieur Aznavour (2024) ***

Conventional, but impressive, musical biopic about the legendary French singer. Great songs.

Un P'tit truc en plus (2024) **

French film about two criminals hiding in a summer camp.

Misericorde (2024) ***

A very unusual drama about a murder in a small village in the south of France.

Le Comte de Monte-Cristo (2024) ***

It's not a faithful adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' famous novel, but it's still a very impressive film.

Le Successeur (2024) **

French thriller set in Canada. There is one huge and memorable surprise in this film, but some of its plot twists just aren't believable.

Diamant brut (2024) *

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En fanfare (2024) *

A French "Brassed Off" (1996).

La Plus precieuse des marchandises (2024) ***

French animated film about the Holocaust.

Vingt Dieux (2024) **

French drama about a young agricultural worker who has to take care of his younger sister.

Rabia (2024) ***

Shocking film about young girls joining ISIS to marry Islamic fighters in Syria. Based on a true story.

Black Box Diaries (2024) **

Japanese documentary about a rape investigation involving an influential politician.

Come Closer (2024) ***

All We Imagine As Light (2024) **

Beautiful, but very slow-moving film about three nurses in Mumbai. Alternately mesmerizing and boring, an uneven piece of cinematic ambiguity. Sometimes confusing, but often quite poetic.

Rendez-vous avec Pol Pot (2024) ***

No Other Land (2024) **

Shocking documentary about the destruction of a Palestinian village in the West Bank. Very powerful as a document of terrible human rights violations. But also a bit long and repetitive.

Porcelain War (2024) ***

Powerful documentary about the war in Ukraine.

Succubus (2024) ***

An erotic horror film from Russia. Well-directed and acted.

The Master And Margarita (2024) ***

I'M Still Here (2024) **

Very sad film about a crime committed by the Brazilian dictatorship and its effects on a family across generations.

The Room Next Door (2024) ***

Pedro Almodovar's first English-language film, starring Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore. Superbly directed and acted.

Eight Postcards From Utopia (2024) ***

Excellent and amusing film consisting entirely of found-footage assembled out of post-socialist Romanian advertisements. Brilliantly edited.

Kalak (2024) ***

Excellent Danish drama set in Greenland.

Dahomey (2024) ***

Fascinating documentary about the repatriation of 26 royal treasures from France to Benin.

Grand Tour (2024) **

A strange journey across Asia. Winner of the Best Director Award at the Cannes Film Festival.

Vermiglio (2024) ***

The Girl With The Needle (2024) *

Depressing Danish drama about miserable people suffering from unhappiness.

Una Historia de amor y guerra (2024) *

Very silly Mexican comedy that tries very hard to be some kind of allegory of the tragic destiny of that country, but fails miserably.

Better Man (2024) ***

A portrait of a British rock star, Robbie Williams, as a young ape.

Seven Veils (2024) ***

Paying For It (2024) ***

Swimming Home (2024) ***

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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) ***

The fifth "Mad Max" movie. A prequel to "Mad Max: Fury Road" (2015). 

Humane (2024) *

Sugarcane (2024) **

Profoundly depressing documentary about abuses and crimes committed in a residential school in British Columbia.

The Outrun (2024) **

Set on Scotland's Orkney Islands, its a German/UK coproduction directed by Nora Fingscheidt ("System Crasher") and starring Saoirse Ronan as a young alcoholic woman.

Wallace And Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (2024) ***

Another exciting animated film from the Aardman studio.

Young Werther (2024) ***

We Live In Time (2024) ***

Another superlative performance from Florence Pugh in an excellent melodrama directed by John Crowley ("Brooklyn").

Memoir Of A Snail (2024) ***

Seriously eccentric Australian animated film about very oddball characters.

La Fonte des glaces (2024) *

Bergers (2024) *

Les Rayons gamma (2024) ***

Nos belles-soeurs (2024) ***

A musical adaptation of Michel Tremblay's famous play. The film is available (to buy or rent) on YouTube here.

Jour de chasse (2024) *

A Canadian thriller that tries so hard to make some sort of a statement about racism and sexism that it almost forgets about suspense and thrills.

1995 (2024) **

Autobiographical comedy about a young Canadian filmmaker trying to make a short movie in Egypt.

Ababouiné (2024) ***

A very peculiar Canadian black comedy about a revolt of Catholic schoolchildren against their religious teachers, set in a poor Montreal neighbourhood in the 1950's. One of the best films by Andre Forcier, an enfant terrible of the French Canadian cinema.