Matt Looker

Lopez takes admirable care of the story’s human elements, seizing opportunities to find emotion amid the weapons-grade pyrotechnics of the chaotic action sequences. But the effective (if minimal) world-building really just masks a thin plot, hammy characters, and the kind of questionable logic leaps you so often find in this sort of big, silly space movie.

Working from a script by Greg Rucka (The Old Guard) and Allison Schroeder (Christopher Robin), director Tom Harper (The Aeronauts, Wild Rose) displays impressive action chops, injecting Heart of Stone with plenty of explosive fights and spectacular stunts. On those grounds, it’s rollicking genre fare. Story-wise, however, it plays all its best hands early on.

A deeply affecting and intimate tale that rings right through the nerve-ends.

A film that also aims for gangster grit, community awareness and emotional impact, but compromises on everything.

Filmmaker Jonathan Olshefski illuminates the rich, strife-filled lives of these extraordinary people.

Comprising archive footage and first-hand accounts, Claire Ferguson’s film feels vital in sharing harrowing stories of life in concentration camps.

As reality and fantasy blur, we’re taken on an occasionally confounding but enchanting quest with poignant reveals in store.

While their situation feels futile, the film is almost poetic in posing important questions.