Paul Thomas Anderson made the transition to the second part of his career with There Will Be Blood, an adaptation of a small section of Upton Sinclair’s 1927 novel Oil!, [...]

Electing to adapt Little Women was a big gesture for Greta Gerwig, not simply because of the stature of the original novel, or the number of adaptations that already exist, [...]

After the magisterial scope of Boogie Nights and Punch-Drunk Love, Paul Thomas Anderson returned to the smaller scale of his debut feature with Punch-Drunk Love, a virtual [...]

If Boogie Nights was an astonishing leap forward from Hard Eight, then Magnolia was an even more unbelievable advance in Paul Thomas Anderson’s career, resulting in what is [...]

Boogie Nights, Paul Thomas Anderson’s incredible sophomore effort, was based on The Dirk Diggler Story, a short film that he made when he was a film student, about a [...]

Marriage Story is Noah Baumbach’s take on a certain strand of arthouse cinema that presents the decline of a New York romance, and the decline of a New York family, as the [...]

Hard Eight was Paul Thomas Anderson’s first film, and it’s a remarkably fully-formed release, both on its own terms and as a forerunner of the themes and approaches that [...]

My Best Friend’s Wedding is the spiritual sequel to Muriel’s Wedding, and one of the slyest and most irreverent of 90s romantic comedies – effectively a deconstructed [...]

Five years in production, and a whole lifetime in the making, The Irishman may be Martin Scorsese’s greatest film – and certainly feels like his most personal film, as [...]

Almost by definition, cannibal films tend to defy any consistent tone. The prospect of eating another human body is so horrific, and yet so ridiculous, that films about [...]