Seven years had elapsed between The Shining and Full Metal Jacket, and during that time Francis Ford Coppola had exhausted the high-concept Vietnam film with Apocalypse Now. [...]

You might not think that Ron Howard was the most obvious choice to direct Hillbilly Elegy, J.D. Vance’s account of growing up in suburban Ohio and rural Kentucky, but in [...]

Nancy Meyers’ romcoms get stranger as they proceed, but The Holiday still stands as a pinnacle of weirdness – the last breath, perhaps, of the 90s romcom impulse that [...]

Let Him Go, Thomas Bezucha’s adaptation of the novel by Larry Watson, is one of the quieter masterpieces of the year – a neo-western that announces its originality [...]

Sean Durkin’s second film is a masterpiece of mise-en-scene, opening with a beautifully and languorously paced prelude that introduces us to its main characters – Rory [...]

David Fincher’s latest film is also one of his most unusual – a kaleidoscopic account of the life of Hollywood screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz, played by Gary Oldman, [...]

Christopher Landon’s latest film is an addition to the Happy Death Day expanded universe – not because the narratives explicitly link up here (although Landon has [...]

While Blumhouse films often have a satirical component, the studio has branched out into a fully-fledged horror-satire melange with Craig Zobel’s The Hunt, one of the most [...]

The Vast of Night, the debut film from Andrew Patterson, is a 1950s fantasia, starting with a slow zoom into a mid-century television set, which flickers on to broadcast a [...]

Spike Lee’s films have always been torn between progressive racial politics and toxic masculinity, but his late work has seen him re-examine that conflict, and strain at [...]