The Secret Agent is a demanding watch, but it’s also a really, really rewarding one.

If you like your drama dialled up to 11 all the time, Hamnet is for you.

How Song Sung Blue manages to be corny, sappy, joyful and respectful all at once is byeond us.

Russell Crowe is a suitably chilling Hermann Göring in James Vanderbilt’s chillingly timely Nuremberg.

Come to Against All Odds for a lost WWII resistance tale, stay for Louise Wong with a flamethrower.

Shu Qi’s transformation into Artiste is complete, with her debut feature Girl.

Is Dongji Rescue maybe Die Hard in the Pacific War?

Sturdy. Last Breath is sturdy.

Harbin may not say anything new but it sure nails the resistance chic aesthetic.

Philip Yung is back at what he does best in Papa.

Gird yourself for the next four years with Ali Abbasi’s 47 origin story, The Apprentice.

Austin Butler certainly makes The Bikeriders look cool – or maybe it's the other way around.

How much you enjoy The Monk and the Gun will directly correlate to how much you breathe in peace and harmony.

Another week another Korean political thriller that mines history. This week: hijacking thriller Hijack 1971.

Fly Me to the Moon is precision engineered to be the cool summer diversion you need in 36º.

Director Kim Sung-su proves action and tension can be married to political history in 12.12: The Day.

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is no Snatch, but it’s far from the gunk of Operation Fortune.

Arthur the King is precisely what you want it to be.

Italian diretor Matteo Garrone leaves the mean streets behind in favour of a plea for humanity in Io Capitano.

It’s not as dark ast Kitaro, but Totto-Chan tells The Boy and the Heron’s story better.