An instant camp classic, Tomas Alfredson’s adaptation of Jo Nesbo’s bestselling novel starts off like Scandinoir written by committee, but quickly migrates into something [...]

No experience galvanises recent horror films quite like that of being shamed on social media, to the point where being “outed” – in whatever way – has eclipsed the [...]

For a film that is so identified with its style as Blade Runner, small differences in the sequel mean a lot. It’s no coincidence, then, that Blade Runner 2049 opens in [...]

Not only is Girls Trip one of the very best comedies of the decade, it’s a definitive moment in the ongoing evolution of a post-gangsta model of black civil rights. Taking [...]

Different people respond to films in different ways. That’s something I’m always especially aware of when it comes to Terrence Malick’s late work, which seems to [...]

Wind River is the second film to be directed by Taylor Sheridan and the third in a neo-western trilogy, following Sicario, directed by Denis Villeneuve, and Hell or High [...]

Doug Liman’s second film of 2017 centres on CIA operative and drug smuggler Barry Seal, although it’s not exactly a biopic so much as a riff on a certain kind of charisma [...]

Carrie was the first adaptation of a novel by Stephen King, and it’s still one the best, holding its own against the massive progeny of King adaptations that it spawned, [...]

The Dinner is the third adaptation of Herman Koch’s 2009 novel, after a Dutch and Italian version, and starts from much the same premise – a group of four friends meeting [...]

One of the most daring films in Darren Aronofsky’s career, mother! is a damning allegory of the ways in which the female body is used as collateral damage within male [...]