Curry Barker’s Obsession is a reworking of Fatal Attraction for the era of toxic codependency – and watching it in a full cinema, I could imagine how it must have felt to [...]

Andre Øvredal has a real knack for highly contained horror premises – chamber dramas that never feel like filmed theatre. Both The Autopsy of Jane Doe and The Last Voyage [...]

Based on the 1895 novel by Benito Perez Galdos and often considered one of the greatest films in Luis Buñuel’s Mexican period, Nazarin invests the picaresque wandering of [...]

At close to three hours, Otto Preminger’s Anatomy of a Murder is – or aspires to be – a work of comprehensive procedural realism, standing in relation to trial protocol [...]

Like so many films in the New French Extremity, Alexandre Aja’s High Tension is a home invasion drama, inflected in this case through the hick horror of The Texas Chainsaw [...]

Bart Layton’s Crime 101 is a loving pastiche to Michael Mann’s vision of Los Angeles, and to Heat in particular, revolving around a literal highway robber, Chris [...]

Dreamcatcher has to be one of the most audacious of all Stephen King adaptations, if only because it hews so closely to what is one of his weirdest novels. It’s so strange [...]

Dominik Moll’s Case 137 is a deceptively complex dramatisation of the 2018 Yellow Vests Protests from the perspective of Stephanie Bertrand, an investigator with the police [...]

Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague is the second of his historical films to hit screens in 2025. Like Blue Moon it revolves around a flashpoint in twentieth century culture [...]

Apparently Robert Altman was hesitant to direct The Company which is peculiar because Barbara Turner’s screenplay could almost be a homage to Altman’s own cinematic [...]