Fifteen years after cementing the erotic thriller with Fatal Attraction, Adrian Lyne provided its elegy with Unfaithful. Between those two bookends, which trace out a long [...]

Barbarian, Zach Cregger’s latest film, is the latest addition to the growing corpus of Detroit horror – and in some ways the most systematic. Rather than centring [...]

Director Parker Finn made a name for himself with “Laura Hasn’t Slept,” a short film that came out in September 2020, at the height of the pandemic. Smile, his [...]

Christian Tafdrup’s Speak No Evil is a particularly chilling take on what might be described as the genre of bourgeois insularity – a couple desperate to maintain [...]

It’s not surprising, in some ways, that Don’t Worry, Darling has received such middling reviews from critics. First, the events behind the scenes have clearly [...]

In an era when virtually every new film is easily rewatchable with the help of streaming service, I sometimes wonder whether every new film is actually rewatched, over and [...]

Between Waterworld and The Arrival, David Twohy had a hand in two of the few Hollywood films of the 90s to really tackle the taboo subject of global warming. In Waterworld, [...]

It was panned at the time, and has been all but lost to DVD bargain-basement bins, but The Perfect Man is one of the few mid-00s romcoms that gets the balance of sweet and [...]

Scott Mann’s Fall is an immediate survival masterpiece, and the first fictional film to tap into the mountaineering crazy that has infused documentary cinema over the last [...]

Bodies Bodies Bodies is one of the most unusual and ambivalent films to be released by, for and about Gen Z. It takes as its central premise the idea that the slasher genre [...]