Joachim Trier’s latest film, The Worst Person in the World, is difficult to align with a single genre. From a distance, it’s a coming-of-age film, or even a romantic [...]

Licorice Pizza is Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest hymn to the San Fernando Valley. Many Hollywood directors have filmed in the valley, but it holds a special place in [...]

It’s quite astonishing to look back at The Terminator and see how much James Cameron did with such a small budget – or at least such a small budget compared to his later [...]

Curtis Hanson’s L.A. Confidential, an adaptation of the third novel in James Ellroy’s L.A. Quartet, was one of the high points of neo-noir. In a sense, it was less [...]

The disaster movie was well out of vogue by the time that James Cameron released Titanic in 1997, thanks to the endless parodies of the 80s and early 90s. In response, [...]

My biggest concern, going into Dune, was that Frank Herbert’s novel seemed too attuned to Denis Villeneuve’s directorial style. Dune was always waiting for Villeneuve to [...]

Failure to Launch was one of the high points of the neo-screwball revival of the mid-2000s – a collection of films that, in retrospect, feel like the silver age of the [...]

Like The Visit, M. Night Shyamalan’s latest film is a study in agesploitation – the way that ageing can become a form of horror when compressed and condensed. Both films [...]

Jane Campion’s latest film is an adaptation of The Power of the Dog, the 1967 novel by Thomas Savage. It’s a masterclass in storytelling, establishing character first, [...]

Over the last couple of years, Paul Schrader has gradually been returning to some of the concerns of his classic period, but with a later and darker inflection. The Card [...]