Death Wish (1974)

For one brief moment, Charles Bronson's Dr Paul Kersey - an architect whose wife is killed and daughter raped by gangbangers (one of them a young and lanky Jeff Goldblum) - steps out onto a NYC rooftop and surveys the city from above, and this vigilante may as well be in Gothan in a mask and cape, or, come to think of it, perhaps he's more like Victor Zsasz because it's a pretty unpleasant, unrewarding, socially troubling revenge he metes out.

★★★☆☆

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A Separation (Jodaí-e Nadér az Simín) (جدایی نادر از سیمین) (2011)

A man caring for his father with Alzheimers, his wife who wishes to emigrate from Iran, and their daughter whose exam studies are overshadowed by the impossible choice she faces of either staying with her father in Tehran or travelling abroad with her mother, are rocked by an allegation of murder in this rivetting and oh-so-human drama from director Asghar Farhadi who fills his film with individuals close to god but separate from each other.

★★★★★

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