No action film of the 2010s draws on the lexicon and ambience of gaming quite like John Wick, whose lurid, day-glo, Milkyway universe takes place in a world in which every [...]

Hong Sang-Soo’s latest film is one of his eeriest and most understated, playing out in a calm and hermetic black-and-white universe that initially seems fairly minimal, but [...]

While John F. Kennedy may have been one of the most charismatic American presidents of the twentieth century, representations of Lyndon B. Johnson have been far more frequent [...]

Of all Mark Wahlberg’s collaborations with Peter Berg, Patriots Day feels the most personal – not just because it details an event that occurred on American soil, but [...]

No film encapsulates the American post-Trump right wing quite so eloquently as Eli Roth’s remake of Death Wish, which is undoubtedly the drabbest and most depressing action [...]

Not only is Manhunt John Woo’s first Netflix film, it marks his return to classic action films after nearly a decade of crafting epic wuxia and period dramas. Quite a bit [...]

The Ocean’s franchise is the latest to get the female cast makeover, following on from the reboot of Ghostbusters in 2016 and ahead of the remake of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels [...]

Over the last couple of years, Peter Berg has revived the American disaster film in quite an acute and visceral way. Whereas the classic disaster films of the 60s and 70s [...]

One of the most original haunted house films since Paranormal Activity, Ari Aster’s debut Hereditary grows stranger and more unsettling as it proceeds, eventually ending up [...]