COLO ★★☆☆☆
D: Teresa Villaverde.
S: João Pedro Vaz, Alice Albergaria Borges, Beatriz Batarda, Clara Jost.
Interminable. Inept dialogue, characterisation and storytelling. I, DANIEL BLAKE this ain't.
RETURN TO MONTAUK ★★☆☆☆
D: Volker Schlöndorff (Diplomacy, The Handmaid’s Tale, The Tin Drum, The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum).
S: Stellan Skarsgård, Nina Hoss, Susanne Wolff, Niels Arestrup.
Disappointing. Laboured melodrama. Lots of charisma, but revelations and gravitas underwhelm.
THE BAR (El Bar) ★★★½☆
D: Álex de la Iglesia (My Big Night, The Oxford Murders, 800 Bullets).
S: Blanca Suárez, Mario Casas, Carmen Machi, Terele Pávez, Secun de la Rosa, Alejandro Awada, Joaquín Climent, Jaime Ordóñez.
Funny chaotic apocalyptic misanthropy. Not in the same league as Iglesia's previous, MY GREAT NIGHT, but what is?