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Sparks fly both on and off the court in this groundbreaking feature debut by writer-director Gina Prince-Bythewood (The Old Guard), which elevated the coming-of-age romance by giving honest expression to the challenges female athletes face in a world that doesn’t see them as equal. Sanaa Lathan (Alien vs. Predator) and Omar Epps (Higher Learning) make […]

It might have begun as a publicity stunt for ageing tennis player Bobby Riggs (Steve Carrell), but his challenging star women’s player Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) to a tennis match ignited a series of issues that shone a light on the sport’s sexist attitudes. It’s a smart choice of material for the directors of […]

Med uppsåt att lura Lady Hideko på hennes förmögenhet lyckas unga Sook-Hee få anställning hos henne som kammarjungfru. Men oväntade känslor uppstår mellan dem, samtidigt som mannen bakom komplotten visar sig ha helt andra planer för Sook-Hee. Alla lurar alla i sydkoreanske mästerregissören Park Chan-wooks queera thriller noir, baserad på Sarah Waters ”Fingersmith”. En psykologisk […]

Hasse Alfredsons härligt absurda långfilmsdebut blandar saga med bitsk satir. Max von Sydow, Birgitta Andersson och Gösta Ekman briljerar som far, mor och son. Hasse själv gör också en minnesvärd roll.

In this second of Francis Ford Coppola’s back-to-back screen adaptations of novels by S. E. Hinton, the grand romanticism of The Outsiders was flipped to create an expressionist, monochrome vision of youthful passion and melancholy, and became one of Coppola’s most personal and dazzling works. Against a run-down, industrial Tulsa, Oklahoma, Coppola presents a vivid portrait of […]

It’s the year 2073, and the worst fears of modern life have been realised. Surveillance drones fill the burnt orange skies and militarised police roam the wrecked streets, while survivors hide away underground, struggling to remember a free and hopeful existence. In this ingenious mixture of visionary science fiction and speculative nonfiction, Academy Award-winning filmmaker […]

An acclaimed early work by Olivier Assayas, the long-unavailable, deeply felt coming-of-age drama Cold Water can at last be seen in the United States. Drawing from his own youthful experiences, Assayas revisits the outskirts of Paris in the early 1970s, telling the story of teenage lovers Gilles (Cyprien Fouquet) and Christine (Virginie Ledoyen), whose rebellions […]

Farfar Jessie (Connery) är en hårdför förbrytare som suttit i fler fängelser än de flesta. Hans sonson Adam (Broderick) är hans motpol – välutbildad, belevad och ostraffad. Ändå är det just Adam som kommer till Jessie med förslaget om en storstilad miljonkupp, och Jessie tänder förstås till för fullt! Problemet är att man måste vara […]