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Bloodlines is a masterful continuation of the Final Destination franchise, at once a loving homage to the original films and a bold new direction for the series. At first it [...]

Set in 1998, Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing is an elegy for a vanished New York – one driven by diverse inner city neighbourhoods, affordable apartment and housing [...]

Set in late May 2020, Ari Aster’s Eddington is the first epic Covid period piece in American cinema. At times it draws upon the expansiveness of directors like Robert [...]

Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another is a remarkable film – and one I wouldn’t have predicted from Licorice Pizza. While continuing his perennial focus on [...]

Shutter takes the traditional Thai ghost film and inflects it through the analog horror of the early 2000s to form one of the eeriest testaments to the decline of traditional [...]

Alex Scharfman’s Death of a Unicorn sees the billionaire satires of recent years tip over into eco-horror. Even though these films have become somewhat rote, I still have a [...]

Friendship is a wonderful, witty and at times unsettling vision of what has sometimes been described as the male loneliness epidemic. In the hands of writer-director Andrew [...]

Zach Cregger’s Weapons is a silky, sinuous, sort-of spiritual sequel to his debut Barbarian. Both films draw on classic suburban horror and are fascinated with the [...]