Benjamin Crossley-Marra

Everything you were wondering about Nicole Kidman is true. She looks even better in real life, she comes off as incredibly smart and sincere of course it’s hard not to feel a little intoxicated by her presence.

Husband and wife team Andrea Nix and Sean Fine’s new documentary, War/Dance, is powerful for what it doesn’t show. The film is not an expose on the atrocious human-rights violations that continue to plague northern Uganda; rather it’s about finding a ray of hope amidst brutal chaos. Uganda, as depicted in the film, is a strikingly beautiful country ripped apart by violence.

Kicking off with the visually impressive, yet admittedly tepid The Darjeeling Limited, audiences would probably do better to download the precursor gem Hotel Chevalier.

Love her or hate her, there’s no denying Catherine Breillat is a force to be reckoned with. Her oeuvre is filled with raw sexuality, mental illness and sibling rivalry.

Coming from the Netherlands to northern England in the late seventies was a big move for Anton Corbijn. The highly-organized social system in the Netherlands was a stark contrast to England’s the bleak, grungy cities full of poverty.