In many ways, The Unknown Girl feels like a transitional work for the Dardenne Brothers, a combination and calibration of their early and late styles that epitomises the best [...]

Throughout his accelerated career, Xavier Dolan has proven himself to be peculiarly adept at fusing visions of queerness with visions of morbidity and mortality. From his [...]

Although the official competition at Cannes is primarily a showcase for international films, it also operates as a bit of a roundup for French cinema as well. As a result, [...]

One of the strangest films I have seen in some time, Bruno Dumont’s Slack Bay is – at least on the surface of it – a crime procedural set in the Pas-de-Calais region in [...]

An elaborate fantasia on the 1930s from the vantage point of the 1990s, Warren Beatty’s labour of love is still a high watermark for comic strip and graphic novel [...]

So monolithic and magisterial were the combined achievements of The Godfather and The Godfather II, and so emphatic were their identification with the New Hollywood legacy, [...]

An incredible protest film from a radical veteran, I, Daniel Blake is one of the starkest and most uncompromising entries in Ken Loach’s body of work, and yet one of the [...]