One of the best Hollywood comedies in some time, Game Night is an amalgam of two very different types of films. On the one hand, it draws upon the wave of ensemble mystery [...]

“I ask you to imagine that you’re standing in a public place in a town. You look down and see that you are standing inside an empty square.” So goes the [...]

Alexander Payne’s latest film is, in many ways, a very different kind of film from what its promotional campaign would suggest. In part, that’s because it is, in effect, [...]

Revisionist samurai films are one of Takashi Miike’s many talents, with this most prolific of contemporary Japanese directors always manging to renew the glow and gloom of [...]

Martin McDonagh made his name as a playwright with a pair of regional trilogies – the Leenane Trilogy and the Aran Islands Trilogy – and in many way his second film set [...]

Not only is Doug Liman one of the most original action directors working at the moment, but he’s one of the most diverse, capable of releasing a remarkable variety of genre [...]

Paul Thomas Anderson’s exquisite and extraordinary new film is the third in what feels like a trilogy of stories about the waning of paternal and patriarchal authority [...]

Throughout his career, Yorgos Lanthimos has produced a series of excoriating satires of nuclear family, conservative coupledom and reproductive futurity, but none of them [...]

Aaron Sorkin’s first film as director is a biopic of Molly Bloom, and based on her biography of the same name, but it’s not exactly an adaptation of the book. Instead, [...]

Based on the 2007 novel by Andre Aciman, Call Me By Your Name has come to be seen as something of a watershed moment for queer cinema, not least because of its widespread [...]