Styx

[A] thought-provoking moral drama.

It's a vital, highly intelligent movie that is both a first-class thriller and a biting commentary on our current world.

Styx is a gripping sea adventure that mixes thrills and spills with thoughtfulness and compassion.

The outcome is bleak. Powerful, potent cinema.

Fischer's second feature is so minimalist it makes JC Chandor man-in-a-boat survival drama All is Lost look like Waterworld.

Fischer literalises the turbulence we're now navigating, and asks some stern questions of our moral compasses.

A stern attack on Europe's apathy towards a calamity rooted in colonialism, Fischer's breakout festival hit is a visceral, disquieting experiment that speaks volumes about white guilt and premeditated institutional negligence.

Old-school movie-making, and it works wonders.

The global refugee crisis becomes personal for a solo sailor off the coast of Africa in this detailed, perfectly realistic minimalist parable from Germany.

More of a short story than a novel in terms of narrative complexity, Styx doesn't ultimately pack quite as much punch as one might like...