Life can turn around with an airborne feather, a chicken dance, and an oldie or two.

Another potent Ken Loach-Paul Laverty collaboration.

The novelty of a movie aimed at a typical anglophile audience with uptight British people swearing and reading vulgar words eventually wears thin.

A murder mystery set within the atmospheric world of a British hairstyling competition.

Sally Hawkins stars as an underdog searching for the remains of the much-maligned Richard III.

A film staged, shot, and scored as a ghost story infused by a gothic atmosphere. Joanna Hogg avoids obvious jump scares while sustaining an unsettling environment.

An odd, very dry British comedy, takes a while to rev up.

A British period drama that subverts the polite conventions of the genre with its frank depiction of sex.

Director Oliver Hermanus offers a fresh take on a noted work by placing its story line in a different cultural context, where it holds up handily.