Ruben Ostlund
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Curzon Home Cinema: vivid selection of films to rent online
- Film
- April 4, 2020, 05:00
In 2017 the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (Bafta) quite rightly recognised Curzon with an award for outstanding British contribution to (...)

Netflix: The best 101 films to watch right now
- Film
- January 18, 2020, 06:10
There has been an almighty turnover on Netflix since we last compiled this list, with more than half of our favourite films that time around disappear(...)

The Square: impeccably acted, consistently witty
- Film
- March 15, 2018, 05:00
Most summaries of Ruben Östlund’s latest mad film find space for the word “satire”. There is certainly some of that about. The picture begins with C(...)

Cork Film Festival to screen some 200 films over 10 days
- Film
- October 22, 2017, 10:46
There may be some two months to go until Christmas, but when the Cork Film Festival opens in three weeks’ time “The Man Who Invented Christmas” will k(...)

Ruben Östlund’s vast clutter of provocation, an unexpected winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes, begins with Anne (Elisabeth Moss), a journalist, interv(...)

The 70th Cannes Film Festival ended on Sunday night with, for the third year in a row, a surprise winner of the Palme d’Or, the festival’s most signif(...)

Irish film among those ‘drooled over’ at Cannes
- Film
- May 23, 2017, 05:00
Cannes is celebrating its 70th edition. Next year, however, it will arguably mark a more significant anniversary. It will then be 50 years since the (...)

Awkward, odd and disturbing sex remains a distraction at Cannes
- Film
- May 21, 2017, 14:53
Awkward sex remains one of the continuing distractions of the Cannes Film Festival. Rare is the film in the Official Selection that doesn’t have some (...)

2016: The 50 best films on Netflix
- Film
- July 29, 2016, 12:30
A few years ago, we published a guide to the best films available on Netflix. It proved to be one of our most popular stories ever. Since then many n(...)

Force Majeure review: Pitiless, pessimistic, but funny | JDiff 2015
- Film
- March 24, 2015, 11:03
Arch-provocateur Ruben Östlund secures a place at the top table with this sour, blackly comic Swedish drama on the nature of masculinity and the fragi(...)