Bird in the hand: in Tilmann Singer’s new alpine horror flick Cuckoo, an onslaught of contrived plot twists and uneven performances undermine an ambitious pastiche of genre tropes
Gather round: Nobuhiko Ôbayashi’s 1989 film is a mellow, neorealist true story about a greengrocer on the outskirts of Tokyo who took a troop of poor Chinese exchange students under his wing in 1987
Perchance to dream: a satire on celebrity and cancel culture, Kristoffer Borgli’s new Nicholas Cage–vehicle, Dream Scenario, treads the thin line between critique and caricature
