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Elle; Certain Women; Neruda; Frantz and more – reviews ? Can an actor author a film they haven’t scripted or directed through sheer force of presence? Watching Isabelle Huppert burn herself into the already too- hot- to- handle Elle (Lionsgate, 1.

Paul Verhoeven, himself a pretty assertive film- making brand, has repeatedly stated that he couldn’t have made this exhilaratingly kinked study of sexuality without Huppert’s “amorality” – a term few but he could apply with such doting pride – to steer matters. It’s hard to imagine any other actor making quite such sense of the cinema’s most defiantly complex female lead in recent memory: Mich.

As she resolves to own her victimhood in the most dauntless way possible, David Birke’s spidery script presents a million possible avenues of rape- revenge catharsis, not once taking the most expected one. Complicated, corrosively funny and acted with breathtaking nerve by Huppert, it treads dangerous ground while defending the wildly idiosyncratic nature of desire. The particularity of a woman’s identity is also central to – embedded, indeed, right in the title of – Certain Women (Sony, 1. Kelly Reichardt, American cinema’s reigning master of the miniature. Three ostensibly unrelated stories of feminine resolve in a dour man’s world gradually illuminate one another in Reichardt’s most elegantly cross- stitched film to date. There are quiet rewards in the chapters anchored by Laura Dern’s small- time lawyer and Michelle Williams’s legacy- seeking wife and mother, but it’s the sublime third chapter that lifts the film to the heavens: a piercing maybe- romance between Kristen Stewart’s gangly law student and a lonesome Native American rancher (the marvellous Lily Gladstone) aching for a moment’s understanding. Reichardt, if no one else, grants her wish.

Watch the trailer for Neruda. Cult Comedy Movies Year By The Sea (2017). In something of a bumper week for arthouse standouts, I scarcely know how to describe and celebrate Pablo Larrain’s darting, diving, dazzling Neruda (Network, 1. Not at all a biopic but a restless, inventive evocation of the life and work of Chilean poet- statesman Pablo Neruda, it risks some poetry of its own as it melds biographical fact, literary interpretation and a fanciful shot of film noir.

As Gael Garc. Shot mostly in glossy, slightly textureless black and white, it’s engrossing Sunday afternoon fare, though it could use a touch of Ozon’s more lurid side. Freemoviesonline Wonder Woman (2017). Kim Jee- woon’s The Age of Shadows (Thunderbird, 1. A ripe, roaring spy thriller set in Japanese- occupied 1.

Korea, it’s a genuine yarn that glides without pause from one bravura set piece to the next, so confident in its classicism that it even finds an essential new cinematic application of Ravel’s done- to- death Bolero at its climax. If you prefer your brash blockbusters without subtitles, you could do worse than Logan (Fox, 1. A brawny, gory new outing for Hugh Jackman’s sabre- fingered X- Men antihero, Wolverine, it ironically reanimates a fusty franchise by stripping much of the animation out of it. We’re in the grim, grubby superhero realm that Christopher Nolan made fashionable, with Wolverine gaining more internal sturm und drang to match the new atmospherics. Halston Sage, left, and Zoey Deutch in Before I Fall.

Photograph: AP. The young adult demographic, however, is quite intelligently targeted in Netflix’s latest exclusive, Sundance- poached premiere Before I Fall, in which a popular high- school princess (star- in- waiting Zoey Deutch) dies in a post- party car crash, only to be cosmically saved and suspended, reliving her last day over and over until she finds a way to change her fate. That the premise is ripped wholesale from Groundhog Day won’t trouble many of the teens who will warm to its thoughtful consideration of adolescent morality and social politics. Director Ry Russo- Young, meanwhile, gives it an impressively mature, stormy aesthetic. Kids, as ever, are not quite what they used to be.