Full Time, Eric Gravel’s second feature, was awarded both Best Director and Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival. Both plaudits are well deserved, since the film [...]

Fifteen years after cementing the erotic thriller with Fatal Attraction, Adrian Lyne provided its elegy with Unfaithful. Between those two bookends, which trace out a long [...]

Barbarian, Zach Cregger’s latest film, is the latest addition to the growing corpus of Detroit horror – and in some ways the most systematic. Rather than centring [...]

Director Parker Finn made a name for himself with “Laura Hasn’t Slept,” a short film that came out in September 2020, at the height of the pandemic. Smile, his [...]

Christian Tafdrup’s Speak No Evil is a particularly chilling take on what might be described as the genre of bourgeois insularity – a couple desperate to maintain [...]

It’s not surprising, in some ways, that Don’t Worry, Darling has received such middling reviews from critics. First, the events behind the scenes have clearly [...]

In an era when virtually every new film is easily rewatchable with the help of streaming service, I sometimes wonder whether every new film is actually rewatched, over and [...]

Between Waterworld and The Arrival, David Twohy had a hand in two of the few Hollywood films of the 90s to really tackle the taboo subject of global warming. In Waterworld, [...]

It was panned at the time, and has been all but lost to DVD bargain-basement bins, but The Perfect Man is one of the few mid-00s romcoms that gets the balance of sweet and [...]

Scott Mann’s Fall is an immediate survival masterpiece, and the first fictional film to tap into the mountaineering crazy that has infused documentary cinema over the last [...]