Between Host and Dashcam, Rob Savage established himself as the poet of pandemic spatiality – one of the few directors who managed to capture the atmosphere of lockdown in [...]
Jessica Hausner’s latest film is an eerie and excoriating satire of what might be described as the corporate New Age moment and its fixation on wellness, mindfulness and [...]
Anatomy of a Fall, Justine Triet’s Golden Palm-winning drama, might equally be called Anatomy of a Marriage. It’s about a couple, Sandra, played by Sandra Hüller, and [...]
On the face of it, Daniel Goldhaber’s How to Blow Up a Pipeline might seem like an impossible project. It’s an adaptation of Andreas Malm’s non-fiction book of the same [...]
Book Club 2: The Next Chapter reunites us with the foursome of the original film – Vivian, played by Jane Fonda, Diane, played by Diane Keaton, Sharon, played by Candice [...]
Raging Bull may be the film where Martin Scorsese’s camera digs deepest beneath the skin of his characters, and most insinutates itself into their proprioceptive purview. [...]
Past Lives, Celine Song’s debut film, starts with three figures at a bar – a Korean, a Korean-American and an American – as a couple of other people speculate on the [...]
Few films capture the cloistered-connected dyad of 80s teendom like Reckless, the directorial debut of James Foley, the screenwriting debut of Chris Columbus and the acting [...]
The Comfort of Strangers marks the meeting of three quite distinct artistic minds. Directed by Paul Schrader, the screenplay by Harold Pinter is based on an early novella by [...]
One of the most plangent and revelatory works of neorealism, Shoeshine is one of Vittorio De Sica’s great tributes to the Italian children who were dispossessed and [...]