In an era of endless reboots and franchise-building, Top Gun: Maverick is that rare thing: a genuine sequel. In fact, it makes you realise that reboots are largely about [...]

Everything Everywhere All At Once, the second film from the writer-director duo of Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert is bigger in every way that their extraordinary debut Swiss [...]

B-pictures have taken on a new life in the wake of the pandemic, partly because they so often depend on claustrophobically sequestered spaces. To some extent, the digital [...]

Jagged Edge is something of a test case for the erotic thriller, marking Joe Eszterhas’ first foray into the genre, along with Glenn Close’s first top-billed role, two [...]

Pablo Larrain’s latest biographical study is easily his best – a return to the heady days of his earlier career. Kristen Stewart plays Diana Spencer, but this is a very [...]

Filmed over eleven days in November 2020, The Guilty starts off as one of the best films made under (and about) lockdown, even if it eventually turns into a more generic [...]

With The Northman, Robert Eggers completes a trilogy of films about the white frontier – frontier narratives reimagined as thresholds of extreme whiteness in the present. [...]

The Paranormal Activity cycle has always taken white unhomeliness as its subject matter, which has turned it into the last great flowering of the suburban horror that started [...]

Directed and co-written by Ida Lupino, Outrage was only the second post-Code Hollywood film to deal with rape (after Johnny Belinda), although the word is never spoken [...]

Since Tony Scott’s main signature was speed, most of his films asked one central question: how do you inject even more speed, or texture speed in more ingenious ways? [...]