Mary Bronstein’s second film, and her first in seventeen years, following 2008’s Yeast, is a vision of parenthood, especially motherhood, as a fugue state, a fever dream [...]

Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value, which won the Grand Prix at Cannes, is an elliptical and elusive family drama, which lingers long after it’s finished. Unlike The Worst [...]

Stephen King has many registers but one of his most underrated might be described as surreal sentimentality – modern fairy tales that are most vibrant and dynamic when they [...]

The Black Phone was already an expansion of a short story, written by Stephen King’s son Joe Hill, so expanding it further to create a sequel was always going to be a tough [...]

Noah Baumbach’s latest film, Jay Kelly, opens with one of the most beautiful sequences of his career. Out of a Hadean mist of film equipment and backdrops, an urban scene [...]

Bloodlines is a masterful continuation of the Final Destination franchise, at once a loving homage to the original films and a bold new direction for the series. At first it [...]

Set in 1998, Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing is an elegy for a vanished New York – one driven by diverse inner city neighbourhoods, affordable apartment and housing [...]

Set in late May 2020, Ari Aster’s Eddington is the first epic Covid period piece in American cinema. At times it draws upon the expansiveness of directors like Robert [...]

Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another is a remarkable film – and one I wouldn’t have predicted from Licorice Pizza. While continuing his perennial focus on [...]

Shutter takes the traditional Thai ghost film and inflects it through the analog horror of the early 2000s to form one of the eeriest testaments to the decline of traditional [...]