The Stranger is nothing less than an Australian answer to William Friedkin’s Cruising. It’s notionally about the apprehension of Brett Peter Cowan, who was convicted of [...]

Directed by Phyllis Nagy, and written by Hayley Schore and Roshan Sethi, Call Jane is a remarkably resonant look at the Jane Collective, the underground women’s [...]

Water has always been James Cameron’s great muse. We see it in the liquid transmutations of the Terminator, the deep-sea exploration of Titanic, the xenomorphs of Alien, [...]

Normally, I’m not the biggest fan of trauma horror – horror that basically boils down to exploring the lingering effects of trauma. Resurrection is a big exception to the [...]

Classic postmodern novels seem to be hard to capture on screen, perhaps because they’re often so suffused with cinema that they’ve already absorbed all possible [...]

While Luca Guadagnino has made films with more overtly queer content, Bones and All may be his queerest in spirit – or the richest, so far, in its queerest. In many ways, [...]

She Said is an adaptation of the book of the same name by Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, which described the investigative research that went into their epoch-creating New [...]

American cinema went through a bit of a Bigfoot moment in the early 2010s, on the back of the rediscovery of the shooting site of the 1967 Patterson-Gimlin film. This quickly [...]

Mark Mylod’s The Menu is a deliciously savage class satire that belongs with The White Lotus, Triangle of Sadness and other recent releases about the lives of the [...]

Willow Creek, Bobcat Goldthwait’s last fictional release to date, is a found footage film about a couple, Kelly and Jim, played by Alexie Gilmore and Bryce Johnson, who [...]