Jane Campion’s latest film is an adaptation of The Power of the Dog, the 1967 novel by Thomas Savage. It’s a masterclass in storytelling, establishing character first, [...]

Over the last couple of years, Paul Schrader has gradually been returning to some of the concerns of his classic period, but with a later and darker inflection. The Card [...]

No Time to Die is the last Bond film in the Daniel Craig era, and it’s a decisive conclusion. Rather than retire Bond, or allow him to sail off into the sunset, director [...]

The Many Saints of Newark is David Chase’s prequel to The Sopranos – and it’s a curious offering, full of so many scenes that hit the mark that I couldn’t help [...]

From the way Hollywood presented it in the 90s, you’d think there was nothing more pathetic in the world than a single woman ordering takeout. Luckily, we had Sandra [...]

By the mid-1990s, the femme fatale trope was on the verge of vanishing into a new era of corporate femininity. If, as James Naremore argued, the femme fatale had emerged in [...]

Titane is such an unusual, mercurial and eccentric film that it’s hard to describe in a single summative statement – or in terms of a single unifying concept. While it [...]

Blade now feels like one of the great underrated films of the late 90s – buried beneath other franchises that happened to become bigger, and all too often relegated to a [...]

Mia Hansen-Løve’s latest film is one of her gentlest and most mercurial yet – and may well be one of her most cryptically autobiographical as well. It revolves around a [...]

Bound, Lana and Lilly Wachowski’s debut film, is a work of stunning vision – a blueprint for their shared career and for the worlds of The Matrix in particular. The plot [...]