(By Ian Freer on EmpireOnline) <br>Ruben (Riz Ahmed) is the drummer in a punk-metal duo with girlfriend Lou (Olivia Cooke). When he begins to intermittently lose his hearing, his musical life seems over. At Lou’s insistence, he reluctantly enters a retreat for the deaf that means giving up his true passion. For a film marinated in silence, Sound Of Metal makes a helluva noise. The accomplished debut from Darius Marder (who co-wrote the screenplay for Derek Cianfrance’s The P find out more...

The music doc has long settled into a format: uncritical interviewees, archive footage, rise, fall, difficult comeback. But this one finds a terrific subject in Kathleen Hanna, the smart, dynamic, confrontational co-founder of the 1990s Riot Grrrl movement and lea find out more...