Babylon, Damien Chazelle’s sprawling magnum opus, is a riotous affirmation that cinema is still a maximalist medium – and always has been since its inception. While not a [...]

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is pure maximalism, intensifying the serial spectacular of Raiders of the Lost Ark until it’s like a thousand films in one film – [...]

Raiders of the Lost Ark is a perfect adventure film, and one of Steven Spielberg’s very best films – a throwback to the golden era of weekend serials that provided [...]

I rarely find films tedious, but Drive My Car was one of them. To me, Ryūsuke Hamaguchi’s film felt like exactly what it was – a short story stretched into a three hour [...]

In some ways, it’s a bit surreal to see the Fyre Festival recounted on any other platform than Instagram, since it was so wedded to that particular app that it almost [...]

Written by Kevin Williamson and directed by Robert Rodriguez, The Faculty is one of the great American anti-sports films, a riposte to the culture that produced The Waterboy [...]

Beth de Araújo’s Soft & Quiet is one of the more remarkable films I’ve seen in some time – a stunning vision of how and why white women might perpetuate a [...]

It’s hard to adapt H.P. Lovecraft in a straightforward way, for at least two reasons. First, his stories largely defy visualisation, and are often about experiences that [...]

The Banshees of Inisherin is the first of Martin McDonagh’s films to be set exclusively in Ireland, so it’s perhaps not surprising that it harkens back to The Leenane [...]

In the mid-2010s, there was a waning of Christmas affect, a widespread sense, at least in cinema, that the holiday releases of the past were no longer tenable. The most [...]