It’s All About Love (2003)

It’s All About Love (2003)
Rating: ★★★
Jan 20, 2016Near-Future/Reconciliation Drama
An SF outing from Thomas Vinterberg that proved a flop with audiences. It is never satisfying as an SF film but you cannot deny it is directed with a beautiful and sophisticated cool that draws you inside it

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)
Rating: ★★★★
Apr 28, 2010Swedish Serial Killer Thriller
Strong and dramatically absorbing Swedish thriller featuring one of the most original and provocative heroines on screen in some time. A word of mouth hit that later underwent a lesser English-language remake

Melancholia (2011)

Melancholia (2011)
Rating: ★★★
Nov 20, 2011Depression and the End of the World
Lars von Trier’s exploration of his depression continues in this nihilistic end of the world film. It is bleak and relentless but the characters are opaque in their motivations. Somehow I prefer von Trier back in agent provocateur mode

Perfect Sense (2011)

Perfect Sense (2011)
Rating: ★★★½
May 26, 2014World Where People Start Losing Their Sensory Perceptions
Remarkable film set in a world where people start to progressively lose each of their senses. Much of the film works as a character drama rather than a catastrophe film but its portrait of how the world tries to cope in the aftermath of the loss of another sense makes for top-notch science-fiction

Tumbbad (2018)

Tumbbad (2018)
Rating: ★★★½
Jul 12, 2020Bollywood Horror
Forget everything you think you know about Bollywood cinema and watch this - none of the regular cliches apply here. What we have is a beautifully made and frequently quite unearthly work about a man conducting a hair-raising venture down into a pit inhabited by a demon to obtain a fortune in gold coins

The Innocents (2021)

The Innocents (2021)
Rating: ★★★★
Oct 16, 2022Psychically Gifted Children
One of the most extraordinary films ever made about psychic powers concerning a group of children who discover remarkable talents to move objects but then that one among their number has used the power to kill