Catharine Parr attempts to survive King Henry VIII in this intensely-acted, impeccably-designed period piece that opened this year’s festival in Karlovy Vary.
The Oscar-winning Swedish actress will be awarded with the KVIFF President’s Award at the festival’s opening night ceremony.
Guy Ritchie’s brazen new update mixes the Arthurian legend with a 1990s British gangster movie
Melissa McCarthy plays it surprisingly straight in the blandy-titled James Bond spoof Spy as a whip-smart but socially awkward CIA office drone
Wes Anderson’s dazzling WWII-era film was one of the very best of 2014
Steven Soderbergh’s Side Effects starts out as one kind of movie and becomes something else entirely
In Anna Karenina, director Joe Wright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard put a bold, dazzlingly original take on a classic piece of literature
Hugo, which is set in 1930s Paris, has been endlessly referred to as director Martin Scorsese’s “love letter to the movies”
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows isn’t likely to win any converts, but it’s an especially fun ride that just about equals its predecessor
Contagion is one of the scariest films of 2011 – germaphobes watch at their own risk
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is an undeniable return to form for Terry Gilliam, a fantastically imaginative piece of work
Sherlock Holmes, directed by Guy Ritchie and starring Robert Downey Jr., is packed with explosions, fisticuffs, and a wink-wink ‘tude
My Blueberry Nights does well enough on its own accord, though it pales in comparison to the director’s previous films
Sleuth pales so vividly in comparison to the original material that it cannot be deemed anything other than a failure