Bryce McGuire’s first feature, Night Swim, is an adaptation of his award-winning short film of the same name, and it has a disarmingly brilliant premise: what if a swimming [...]

Richard Linklater’s latest film, and his first for Netflix, is a loose adaptation of the life of Gary Johnson, played here by Glenn Powell, who came to the public’s [...]

For my money, Richard LaGravenese’s A Family Affair, which has been roundly pilloried by critics, is the most underrated film of 2024 so far. On the face of it, Carrie [...]

Challengers may well come to be seen as one of the most significant moments in a growing movement to relibidinse cinema again now that the stranglehold of Marvel has passed. [...]

The Zone of Interest, Jonathan Glazer’s fourth film, may be the most terrifying vision of the Holocaust that I have seen on the big screen. For the most part, films treat [...]

Love Lies Bleeding is one of the more defiantly lesbian films I’ve seen recently. Its defiance lies in the fact that it makes no effort to normalise lesbianism, or [...]

One of the enduring tropes of Sofia Coppola’s body of work is girlhood in palatial settings – the Versailles of Marie Antoinette, the Chateau Marmont of Somewhere and now [...]