Frederick Wiseman’s latest film is a bit of a departure from the epic sweep of At Berkeley, In Jackson Heights and Ex Libris. Taken collectively, those three films now feel [...]

After Death Proof, something shifted in Quentin Tarantino’s career. Whereas Kill Bill: Volume 2 took his love of monologues to a numbing dead end, Death Proof introduced a [...]

Few films have been as fervently anticipated in recent years as High Life, Claire Denis’ first science fiction feature. Few films, too have tapped so eloquently into the [...]

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood forms a coda to Quentin Tarantino’s western trilogy of Inglourious Basterds, Django Unchained and The Hateful Eight. Rather than taking place [...]

Death Proof is probably the most underrated film in Quentin Tarantino’s body of work. In part, that’s because it is often paired with Robert Rodgriguez’s Planet Terror, [...]

Kill Bill: Volume 2 opens with a couple of gestures that indicate that this will be a very different kind of film from Volume 1. During the opening credits, Tarantino returns [...]

In many ways, Hereditary, Ari Aster’s first feature, felt like an anthology horror film. The first act of Midsommar, his second feature, could easily be another part of [...]

Next of Kin was one of only two fictional films that Tony Williams directed, and it’s long since passed out of general circulation, but it’s easily one of the most [...]

Gillian Armstrong’s adaptation of Little Women was perhaps the first that was true to the spirit of Louisa May Alcott’s original novel. Instead of treating it as a [...]

Like Jackie Brown, Kill Bill: Volume 1 draws inspiration from “Vincent Vega and Marsellus Wallace’s Wife,” which was itself one of the most inspired parts of Quentin [...]