Football movies, cinema features and reviews

Shô Miyake's film about the world's first hearing-impaired professional woman boxer brilliantly sidesteps the standard beats

Though a little devoid of incident, strong writing and performances make for an immersive slice of working class Brazilian life

From eye-opening documentaries to intimate dramas, we highlight the films that might have slipped beneath your radar this past year...

Michelangelo Frammartino's quiet and mediative new film explores a 700 metre abyss located in the Calabria region of Italy

Michael Winterbottom's horrifying yet empathetic documentary shows us the true face of Israeli violence in its occupied territories

Italian-Iraqi filmmaker Haider Rashid helms a slight but powerful chase thriller that takes its cues from Son of Saul and The Revenant

Karen Gillan is usurped by her own duplicate in writer-director Riley Stearns' intriguing but not entirely fulfilling future yarn

Alexandre Koberidze’s remarkable second feature depicts a lyrically sublime romance between a pharmacist and a footballer

The Great Beauty filmmaker delivers a funny and moving drama about a Naples teen whose life is saved by Diego Maradona

An extraordinary first-time performance anchors a raw and mythic story of a father searching for the bodies of his murdered sons

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