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The Rip is the latest film to explore what is fast becoming a stronghold in the American popular consciousness: the suburban trap house. Written and directed by Joe Carnahan, [...]

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is the second film in the new trilogy imagining the aftermath of the Rage virus, written once again by Alex Garland but directed by Nia [...]

If I had to condense my taste in film to one mantra it would be this – there is a distinction between seriousness and profundity. Just because a film is unremittingly, [...]

Dan Trachtenberg is the Steve Miner of our time. Both directors have a speciality for taking franchises and inflecting them in new, eccentric directions. Steve Miner worked [...]

Highest 2 Lowest is Spike Lee’s adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low, which was itself an adaptation of Ed McBain’s novel King’s Ransom, set in a fictional [...]

Warfare is, in some ways, quite an improbable collaboration. On the one hand, we have Ray Mendoza, a veteran of the Iraq War who had never shot a film before. On the other [...]

Based on the bestselling novel by Freida McFadden and directed expertly by Paul Feig, The Housemaid is a promising sign for the multiplex – a return to what was once called [...]

Mary Bronstein’s second film, and her first in seventeen years, following 2008’s Yeast, is a vision of parenthood, especially motherhood, as a fugue state, a fever dream [...]

Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value, which won the Grand Prix at Cannes, is an elliptical and elusive family drama, which lingers long after it’s finished. Unlike The Worst [...]