Of all J.G. Ballard’s novels of the 1960s and 1970s – what might be termed his classic era – High- Rise, along with Concrete Island, was the most scrupulous and [...]

It’s hard to open a review of Aquarius with any summary or overview of what the film is about, just because so much of what makes Kleber Mendonca Filho’s follow-up to [...]

If the devolution of bromance over the last couple of years has taught us anything, it’s that there’s nothing especially humane about the bro code, just as there’s [...]

It takes a certain kind of director to film a short story, or a series of short stories, and really pull it off. Although different kinds of short stories have different [...]

Over the last decade or so, the Western has been in decline. While there have been no shortage of actual Westerns, these have tended to construe themselves in a [...]

There can be no doubt that Laszlo Nemes’ Son of Saul is in some sense one of the greatest feature films made about the Holocaust, even if its greatness lies in the ways in [...]

Based on a classical Chinese short story from the Tang Period – Pei Xing’s “Nie Yinniang” – The Assassin is one of Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s most mysterious and mercurial [...]

Any film about Lance Armstrong is faced with a couple of difficult questions. On the one hand, how you strike the right balance between a sports biopic and an expose of his [...]