Many of John le Carré’s 90s novels grappled with the waning of the Cold War but The Tailor of Panama, published in 1996, was perhaps the first to truly inhabit a post-Cold [...]

Whereas I Saw The TV Glow channeled trans dysphoria through the language of 90s pop culture, Jane Schoenbrun’s third film reaches back to the 80s to capture something like [...]

Office Killer, Cindy Sherman’s only feature film, was clearly a genuine stab at a Hollywood career, and not just a curiosity to be displayed in art galleries. Produced by [...]

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 [...]