Smackdown: Doug Liman’s Road House remake and Dev Patel’s the vigilante thriller Monkey Man, two exemplars of the Action Movie, balance style and substance to different effect
Future days: two of the most anticipated films from this year's edition, Bertrand Bonello’s The Beast and Harmony Korine’s AGGRO DR1FT, share a desire to provoke
Back to life: Evil Dead Rise, more than other reboots of the franchise, gets closer to squeezing real feelings out of the scenario without ever going soft on the gory trappings
Drink it in: James Cameron’s much-hyped, space-whale opus seeds the franchise with a militant environmentalism that sets the film apart from similar feats of entertainment engineering
Against interpretation: with its maze-like narrative and nightmare-inducing imagery, David Lynch’s epic Inland Empire is so much more than a puzzle to be solved
I’m looking through you: The common denominator in Ryūsuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car and Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy is an acceptance of transience in all things
Disappearing act: with its deceptively spare mise-en-scene and tamped-down performances, Andreas Fontana’s Dirty War thriller is a superlatively muted debut
