One of the most striking World War II dramas I have ever seen, Agnieszka Holland’s Europa Europa is an adaptation of Solomon Perel’s 1989 autobiography I Was Hitler Youth [...]

William Friedkin’s first horror film following The Exorcist is one of those films that appears to have been consigned to history. Whether because it had such a messy [...]

One of the hardest things to do in American cinema and television at the moment is to craft a timely and compelling narrative about white people. Of course, white people [...]

Released barely a year after The Visit, M. Night Shyamalan’s Split has all the same crazy, tipsy, balls-to-the wall inanity that made his return to psychological thrillers [...]

It’s a peculiarly sinking feeling when a film is not merely as bad as reviews would suggest, but even worse. So it is with Ben Affleck’s Live by Night, his follow-up to [...]

One of the most elusive and ethereal films about queerness that I have seen in some time, Moonlight is based upon Tarell Alvin McCraney’s In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue, [...]

As befits a high concept franchise like The Purge, the three films in the trilogy are fairly schematic. Where the first offers a top-down approach, examining the purge from [...]

Although high concept films are often associated with lavish blockbuster spectacles, there’s something to be said for the way in which a B-movie franchise can take a [...]

Pablo Larrain’s second film – and biopic – released in 2016 is a study of Jacqueline Kennedy in the short period of time between the assassination of John F. Kennedy [...]