Doug Liman’s adaptation of Road House is an ingenious spin on the 80s classic, retaining its camp intensity while also updating it to an even more fractious American [...]
It seemed impossible, but Dune: Part Two is even more magnificent than Dune, and must already rank as one of the greatest and most ambitious science fiction films ever made. [...]
Danny Boyle’s extraordinary debut remains one of the defining documents of Cool Britannia as it stood in the mid-1990s. Narratively, it’s a morality tale about a trio of [...]
Bad Boys, Michael Bay’s first film, was a statement of intent – an argument for Bay as the inheritor to the traditions of Tony Scott and Michael Mann. It draws on the [...]
Ace Ventura 2: When Nature Calls was probably the peak of Jim Carrey’s unmitigated weirdness before he fully crossed over into the mainstream – and that’s really saying [...]
Andrew Haigh’s latest film, All of Us Strangers, is an adaptation of Strangers, a 1987 novel by Taichi Yamada, and revolves around one exchange between two gay men living [...]
Written and directed by Sean Durkin, The Iron Claw is a magisterial study of wrestling’s Von Erich brothers, and the so-called Von Erich Curse that befell them. Raised by [...]
Master Gardener is the last instalment in a trilogy that began with First Reformed and The Card Counter. All three films mark a return to the brooding [...]
Asteroid City feels very much of a piece with The French Dispatch, to the extent that the two films often play like different facets of the same shared universe. As with The [...]
The Holdovers is a wonderful portrait of teaching, the most generous-spirited film of Alexander Payne’s career and rivals Sideways as the best film of his career too. In [...]